VS “Seafoam Green” paint source?

The paint doesn't look like "seafoam" to me, but here are a few more photos to help identify the correct color. Help with paint details or source appreciated.

A good automotive paint shop should have special camera that will take a picture of your paint and give them the codes to mix you up a little touch up paint. That color is also sometimes called Aqua marine I believe.  The metallics make it a little tougher for touch up but you should be able to get pretty close match with reputable paint shop that specializes in automotive paint. 

Thanks Roy. I have a fuzzy memory of a conversation at a Speedster event a couple years back where I was told it was a stock Audi, BMW or Mercedes metallic green paint. But so far I haven't found a match. I'll plan a visit to an auto paint shop soon.

Any NAPA that sells custom mix paint for professional shops has a paint camera

The advantage of the paint camera route is that it compensates for the original paint's fading over time and gives you an exact match.

Well, the true motivation was helping the kids with a project -  painting a matchbox car Speedster to match ours.

But maybe I’ll get around to patching a few chips as well.

Thanks for your help!

Find your way to "Michaels" and head for the paints department.  Bring along a photo on your phone to match color.  Should be close enough for Government work.

Ryan, I've been getting custom-mixed touchup paint from Jerry's Paint & Supply (3358 Fulton). 

I've gotten a few small bottles (they dry out in time) and each has been a perfect match. I did have a PPG paint code (that I got from Kirk when I bought the car), but these guys should be able to fix you up even if you don't have one.

They're pros and supply paint to many local paint shops. They should be able to tell you over the phone if they can help.

Here’s our first attempt with $3 can of best match green metallic at the local Ace. You can see why I wanted to get closer.

Thanks @Sacto Mitch.

@Theron, any chance you have or recall the PPG paint code?

saw a website, lists any mfg., any year, shows all the colors for that year...might take awhile.......www.paintscratch.com

Ryan in NorCal posted:

Thanks @Sacto Mitch.

@Theron, any chance you have or recall the PPG paint code?

I don't.  But even if you had the code, the color would be different now after being in the sun for several years.  Your only real option is the have is color matched by a pro shop.
-=theron

@Ryan (formerly) in NorCal Are you masking off the car prior to painting or are you disassembling the car prior to painting. I watched a video recently from a guy that restores old Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars. He shows how he disassembles them prior to painting and replacing the wheels etc. Not sure if the process for these newer cars is the same as the old cars though. The job you did on that car looks great however you did it.

My experience with paint camera formulas is that they are almost never a perfect match and they will tell you there is a margin of error of + or - 20%.  That's probably fine for painting a model car, but if you are planning to paint a small section of a car it's going to require blending and even then it will be noticeable.  Even if you are painting an entire door edge to edge it might be noticeable.  Metallic paint just makes it even more of a problem to match. 

Sacto Mitch posted:

 

Ryan, I've been getting custom-mixed touchup paint from Jerry's Paint & Supply (3358 Fulton). 

I've gotten a few small bottles (they dry out in time) and each has been a perfect match. I did have a PPG paint code (that I got from Kirk when I bought the car), but these guys should be able to fix you up even if you don't have one.

They're pros and supply paint to many local paint shops. They should be able to tell you over the phone if they can help.

 

 

I was a painter in a body shop and we bought all our paint from Jerry’s. And when I worked as a painter for “Colors on Parade” mobil auto paint company, we also bought from Jerry’s, as I also have for painting my personal cars and motorcycles. In our mobil paint truck, I matched the paint colors with our own computer.

We owned a 1960 Porsche 356B Coupe in the early ‘70s but I  couldn’t find any pictures of it so I bought a similar later year plastic model of our car and painted it exactly like our Porsche was painted at the time. And yes, we were ‘Hippies!” :-)

Love it!

Hello from France, 

Not my habit to post, but I own a "sea foam green" VS since 2012. It has been really difficult to obtain de paint code from Kirk. Cathy replied to me it was a PPG Paint code : DBC 401512 with no correspondance in Europe. I finaly succeeded to identify a correpondance : CHRYSLER YQS AQUAMARINE.I hope that I'm not too late.

I thank you for all your different posts, it helps a lot !

Très jolie!

C'est une belle speedster. 

@Nicolas

Beautiful car! 

It's very difficult to get an American made Speedster on the road in France.  How did you manage it? 

It’s crazy to see how friendly this forum is ... j’adore !

@Troy Sloan : I a big silent fan of you and I patiently wait for the day you will succeed to create the winter version of your cruzinwindows va for VS. I read you have renounced, but you can’t seriously :-) Some guys like me, out of California, count on you !!!

The car came in France in 2009 and it was the last year to succeed. Nowadays, it became almost impossible and the price for the 356 replica in France increased a lot (45 to 55k$ depending on state/mileage)

One more pic from a village near the D-Day land beaches

It’s always a pleasure to see how friendly is this forum... j’adore !

To Troy : it’s crazy to read your interest ! I’m one of your silent fan waiting for the day you will succeed to build a winter evolution of your cruzinwindows. I read that you decided to give up but you can’t. Some VS guys, like me, wait for patiently the day you will succeed :-) 

Considering the way to drive a 356 replica in France, it was easier until 2009, the date that car came in France. Nowadays, it’s very difficult and the price increased a lot. 44k€ to 55k€ depending state/mileage.

Sorry for the double post, it sounded like it was not working...

NIcolas, c’est le même problème ici, le marché a complètement changé et les prix ont vraiment monté.

Aircooled, je crois, a construit une fenêtre pour l’hiver, mais je crois qu’ils sont fais exactement tracer pour l’auto, car chaque speedster  est un peut différent et unique. Tel est la construction de ce hobby. 

Tranlation for you guys: 

We have the same problem here the market has completely changed and the price are up as well. 

Aircooled, I believe, built a custom set traced to the outline of the car but, they are unique to every car.  This is the construction standard of this hobby.

Hello Nicolas.  Yes, sorry to disappoint you, but I did finally decide not to make a full size version of my CruZin windows.  I encountered too many issues with making a one size fits all version.

@Nicolas

Mine is "Forrest Green" but most folks think it's British Racing Green.