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I've moved your post to it's own thread from an unrelated one.
The Serial Number won't tell you what the original color was. But if you look in a spot that hasn't been painted over (under the mirror bracket, part of the firewall, or between the cab and bed), you may find the original color. HERE is a good resource for colors. But the original GM color code won't do you much good, as they're obsolete. Once you determine the color, you can also go HERE and find various paint manufacturer's color codes to match. [on edit] This might help as well.
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Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
On my truck, the back side of the fresh air vent showed the most protected original paint after all the years. Here is a ditzler paint chip sheet if it helps. Also, sometimes on the underside of the hood, they give a clue. Mine had "Transport" written in grease pencil. The original lower body color was transport blue.
Thanks Greg, that's another resource, although not a Ditzler chip page (It's Rinshed Mason or R-M)
This is another spot I've used for reference. They had chips for the interior of my 1951. This is part of TCP Global, a paint supplier.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
Thanks Greg, that's another resource, although not a Ditzler chip page (It's Rinshed Mason or R-M)
This is another spot I've used for reference. They had chips for the interior of my 1951. This is part of TCP Global, a paint supplier.
I have both and when I was looking for the file, that one came up first after I had already typed the Ditzler. From my experience, those paint codes are not going to help at all at the paint vendor. So many pigments over the years have been discontinued because they either contained lead or were made from whale semen or something like that. I ended up having to take my paint chip and the vent to have them scanned for closest known match and formulated with current pigments.
"Whale semen" LOL. Agree about the old paint codes. I tried that at my paint supplier and got the deer in the headlights look. They were able to re-tint the paint I got from Jim Carter that was supposedly correct for the interior of my truck. There was a spot on the speaker grille that was much lighter than what was supplied. They got it to a close enough match. A number of years back, there was a number at PPG that you could call and get a substitution paint code, but no longer. But many of the original exterior colors are available from Jim Carter. Also that Paintref.com site many times has codes from other paint manufacturers matched up to the old colors.
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Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
