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Originally Posted by canis
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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I think they do something like that these days but with a scanning machine. The lady who spent a whole load of time mixing something for me said it was an OK starting point but seemed to use witchcraft to get the colour match after that.
Here's a few things I've learned so far =>
The two samples on the left are custom made efforts that for different reasons can't be used (one for a very obvious reason)
Then the third from the left code 70 which is often called red turns out to be an orangey gold!
Code 46 as shown in the pictures on the previous page is a deeper red - almost burgundy
Code 155 signal red is a bright bugger and could very well be the original colour my PV was repainted in but after being left outside for a few years may have changed shade a bit.