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At 10:34 PM 1/10/97 -0500, Jonathan Hirschman wrote: >Wow - either the KGCNA paint info is based on really off-kilter >scans, or my car is badly faded. > >My car is *supposed* to be painted with Nutria. Compare: > >http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/personal/rtroy/kgcna/paint_chips.html > >with my car... > >http://www.users.interport.net/~hirschma/notch/side_dent.html > >Hmmm... > I checked out the 2 pages and from a distance you are absolutely right. But, a couple things you need to keep in mind. Your car has seen a lot of years of sun and browns are particularily prone to fading. Your picture appears to show that at least the front right fender has been repainted because it looks darker than the rest of the car. A better test of the true color would be from someplace never exposed to the sun such as under the trunk lining or even inside the glovebox. As a former professional at matching car paint I can also vouch that browns are the hardest color to match because they are a combination of the three primary colors -- blue, yellow, & red -- usually with some black and/or white as well. The second problem is that you are viewing two scanned documents which can produce different results. The picture of your car is also probably not a true representation of the true color because of lighting effects introduced onto the film by your camera and variations in development process. Your monitor and software also bring additional variations into the mix. By pulling up both your picture and the color sheet in Photoshop it seems to me that your fender is much closer to the color of the chip than the rest of the car. We also must keep in mind that these color chips are 30 years old. Their saving grace is that the formula should be reproducable. Larry Larry Edson sonofed@ix.netcom.com '66 Type 34 Karmann Ghia '65 Type 345 w/ electric sunroof