1929 Paint Codes

[WyattD 60Special]

Hello all, I am writing to hopefully find some information. I have a 1929 341 B Five passenger coupe. I am trying to find a few parts for the car but most importantly the paint mixing codes. I have contacted the people in San Diego, Gilmore, Carlisle, Hershey, Holland, Denmark, and every online paint code website I could find.

The body color is Portland Beige: sort of an olive army drab.

The fenders are Biscay Green: similar to a dark Hunter green.


Any help would be wonderful as I am young and in experienced. I would like to get the car painted before my college classes resume in the fall. The car is in primer now.

I am 23 my name is Wyatt and the best way to contact me is either by email wyattdeem@yahoo.com or mobile telephone number 304 200 0200

[Brad Ipsen CLC #737]

If you have samples of the colors that is good.  They can be matched by one method or another.  If you find the formulas, they will do you no good.  Paint toners that the colors are made from are no longer available even for paint much later than your car.  TCP Global does a great job in matching these old colors.

[Warren Rauch #4286]

 I hope you will take Brad's advice and have a paint dealer scan your samples. It will give you a better match than what I am about to give you!

 from a Mimax paint book (Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.) before Ditzler?
They only have listings back to 1932 for Cadillac. They do list color names and mixing Formulas earlier/ other makes. That is where these were found.

    Biscay Green MO  1346
     57 oz ma13 Light green
     14 oz ma50 blue
     19 oz ma44 Black
     10 oz ma49 orange yellow


    Portland Beige also called Paloma Beige  Mo 480

     77 oz ma35 White
     15 oz ma20 yellow oxide
     7 1/4 oz ma44 black
     3/4 oz ma4 lemon yellow
   
 The Portland beige color is medium brown ,so it could be completely wrong. Biscay Green is a dark green.

Warren

[Mike Josephic CLC #3877]

The previous two comments are spot on.  Having the original names of the pigments, toners and formulations are of no practical use.  These products were discontinued long ago.

The way to approach replicating your paint colors is to have a well equipped paint shop do a spectro analysis of your paint.  Hopefully, you have small samples of the colors you need.  They should be taken from an area that has seen little sunlight (such as inside the trunk).  The spectro results will provide the paint shop with a new formulation based on currently available materials.

Good luck!

Mike