Sorry bout that one Beaver, just had to get that off me chest!
Tim I have read you posts on offsets, I believe it was on another forum, a hot rod forum maybe??
Very interesting, a tad confusing, but very interesting. We picked it out of a book. We had about all of the books of chip samples out that the store had on the shelf and the color was out of one of the books. The chip did look pretty close out in the sun next to the original seat panel. I'm not totally sure I can condemn it yet because I was just applying the sample with a cloth so it may change a little after I spray some. My body shop/painter buddy was saying that the metallics have changed a lot in recent years, that they are closer to pearls than metallics and that is why it’s hard to match the old metallics. It does seem like the DBU metallic is a lot more dense than the metallic on the AD interior. In other words more flakes per inch.
The JC stuff really is offfff, by a bunch so I hope others will head the warning there.
This color tinting is certainly an art, it surely isn’t as simple as point to a color and mix. “Painter buddy” also said he used to deal with some old timers that could mix you a color by eye and nail it most every time, but they are dying off or retiring and the new guys just don’t seem to have the knack for it. The PPG dealer ran a scans first when I brought the sample in and it came up with some shade of gray that was way off. That disapointed me, I had a good sample that wasn't badly faded and I thought it could come closer to the original.
But, we’ll get there one way or another.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
