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I am a long ways down the road from painting but I am wondering if anyone knows if there is anyone who sells OEM paint? My truck is a 67 C20 and it came in metalic blue.

Any paint shop worth their salt should be able to match your existing paint.
If you can't find a paint code on your truck, take a removable part,preferably one that has the least weathering/patina,and they should be able to match it.
Someone might chime in with the 60's paint codes.

not really any such thing as "OEM paint", but with a 67 a good auto paint supplier may have the color chips with codes to mix your color in whatever system they sell

Bill

Good Info. Thank you!

I don't think you want to paint it with the oem paint, which back then was lacquer, with all the newer paints available to use these days. I wouldn't do lacquer if they gave me the paint.

As the above said, a good paint supplier can get you the original color in a newer type paint, plus the actual final color being an exact match to the original depends on how the paint is applied.

What I mean is, you could take the same paint and apply it on two different days and come up with a slight difference in color if you were to change how it was applied.

Dan

In the late 40s and onwards (if not earlier), lacquers might have been used for repairs, because they dried faster than the synthetic enamels that were baked on (and/or took longer to dry).

Advance-Design trucks (and maybe earlier trucks) were painted at the factory with "high-luster Dulux synthetic enamel which is baked on in thermostatically controlled ovens." Air-drying Duco lacquer was available for repairs.

The closest type of modern paints would probably be acrylic enamels (with or without a hardener). A 2-part, single-stage urethane enamel would be a very durable modern paint.

DUPONT Duco lacquer

DUPONT Dulux alkyd enamel

Another posting on Duco & Dulux paints

Tim, Read the article you posted because it says " Dulux was never used in the production of automobiles". It was used on appliances.

Way back I questioned... How when shooting lacquer do they come up with a shine in the jam area, because lacquers always need buffing to bring up a shine.
I was told the factory shot the paint hot. Basically saying they used a method not available to us in the refinish area.
Back in the 50's I watched my uncle paint in his body shop which he took over from his dad and lacquer is what was used on GM vehicles.

Not that it makes didley squat difference now because that was too long ago and the paint available to us now is quite different.

I'm just happy we don't have to paint with lacquer any more and was referring to the paints available to us in the refinish industry.
Dan

Dan,

I did read the articles at the link_s that I posted above, and I have read the information in 6 different 47-55 Truck Data Books.

The quoted information in my earlier link came from a Truck Data Book (I hold them in higher regard than the history-articles). Advance-Design trucks (and maybe earlier trucks) were painted at the factory with "high-luster Dulux synthetic enamel which is baked on in thermostatically controlled ovens." Air-drying Duco lacquer was available for repairs [this is also stated in Truck Data Books and on Dupont paint sheets].

For example: 1947 Chevrolet Truck Data Book