When I did my training, we used the ICI mixing scheme. It had all the colours, catalogues full of them, including some really odd ones, and car manufacturers I'd never heard of. Shweppes yellow, Coca-cola red/white, it had them all. It was quite interesting reading, in a funny kind of way. I became something of a colour-nerd, I used to love guessing the colour before I read the colour code, it became something of a game.
Ford's 'Oyster Gold', anyone?
The ICI scheme also had some general purpose colour chips. I only ever found one colour we couldn't match, so I'll bet money that whatever colour your car is, it could almost certainly be identified that way. Dunno if they still do it like that, but it's just a suggestion.
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