Would like to do some painting on older CMC still with great paint. Speedy is an Ivory car. Are there paint codes available for my painter? For some reason my doors are much lighter than the rest of the body---weird, just the doors and they show no signs of being repainted. Nope--no PO available or records available.
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I have the CMC red gel coat purchased in 1989. It still looks new but I take good care of it. My body man repainted the engine deck lid after he put louvers in it, and after much mixing experimentation, he got it perfect. I think there are high tech color identifier scopes that will tell the painter what to mix to match what it reads. It took him a while to hit the red gel coat dead on, but it is absolutely undetectable.
Hope this is helpful.
Happy for you David. I think mine was built about same time--maybe a bit earlier. Got a quote just shy of $1,000 to paint 2 doors with no repairs--thinking that is too high for just 2 doors. If these doors were painted--someone was wayyyyyyyyy off on a match. Hoping someone has some data to get close to a match.
David
$1k is a lot for 2 doors. Try Turtle Wax ColorBack Polish. I used the version for fiberglass boats on a faded light blue sail boat hull and it really brought the blue back. I'm sure it won't last long but 2 doors are easy to do over. The boat version may be more abrasive? They make a color coded version called PLUS with every color BUT Ivory - there is a white but that's going the wrong way probably. The entire car was originally all color gel coat - unless someone messed with doors and had them painted.
CMC had no paint/gel color codes for their cars, and the color hues changed depending on what paint/gel color got delivered to the plant that month/week. Several CMCs of the same color parked together will usually look a little different from one to the next. Depending on when the car got built (like towards the end when the whole company was in disarray), you may certainly have door color mis-matched with the car body
I got the official CMC paint chip/interior sample folder in 1993 and still have it. At that time, they only offered "white". There was no "Ivory", just white and no code offered.
My advice would be to find a competent paint shop with a computerized scope, have them shoot the body/fenders and match that on the doors.
I paid around $5K for prep and paint on my car back around 1999, so a Grand for the doors doesn't seem out of line, today, especially if they do a good job matching color.
Here is the CMC paint chip page - Pretty classy, huh?:
By the way, white ain't white, just like black ain't black. There is a spectrum of hues in every color so if you really want to get the color matched between two different things (body and doors), not only the best, but the ONLY way to really get it right in this day and age is with a computerized scope. Do it once and get it right.
Amen Gordon. Thanks for the answers. Yup--looks like it will be going under a scope.
