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I recently acquired some unpainted '68 Roadrunner HO slot car bodies. I want to paint them in the correct factory colors. I have a Dupont 1968 color chart, but it does not indicate which colors are Roadrunner specific. HELP!

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Thank you. I'm sorry but I don't know how to read the info. I see the the stripe colors and interior trim code, but I don't see the exterior colors, or I don't know how to cross reference them.

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Match Dans chart to this chart (I hope)


Hmmm, doesn't seem to work. Google 1968 plymouth paint codes (they are letters AA, BB, etc)

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Quote:

Hmmm, doesn't seem to work. Google 1968 Plymouth paint codes (they are letters AA, BB, etc)




That is what I have been doing, so far all I get are 1968 Plymouth colors, not RR specific.

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1968 MOPAR paint codes are a single letter.

Nothing was Road Runner specific, Road Runner was simply a Plymouth B-body.
The Plymouth B-body paint choices are in the pic I posted above, the color codes have the red square around them.

STANDARD available B-body paint codes: A, B, E, F, G, J, L, M, P, Q, R, S, T, U, W, X, & Y

Some aftermarket paint charts will show the color codes as: AA1, BB1, EE1, etc. - this is simply showing that the car is painted a single color "roof & body". They also use brand specific names such as "poly" or "irid.", these are paint manufacturer's names for metallic colors & Chrysler Corp. never used that nomenclature.

QQ1:
Q = roof paint "electric blue metallic"
Q = body paint "electric blue metallic"
1 = mono-tone paint style

WM2:
W = roof paint "sable white"
M = body paint "turbine bronze metallic"
2 = two-tone paint style

FWIW - Sherwin-Williams "COLOR MANUALS" show the actual names the manufacturers used.

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I think this is Dupont

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Thank you!

Marty

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Here are some of the factory painted bodies I have:



The purple one in the front row is a resin reproduction molded in color.

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