Re: [T3] Paint Formulas for 73?

[I4VW@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/13/00 11:11:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
msmall@ocvv.org writes:

> Will the paint code be enough for most auto paint shops? 
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Matt,
     I had a small bottle of touch-up paint mixed at a local paint shop. 
While the employee was waiting on another customer, I browsed through the 
'catalog', found the VW section & hunted in it until I found my code & color. 
It's Shavanna Beige 
L-620. He mixed the bottle for me & when I got home shook the bottle & 
applied some to a hidden area where the sun could not have got to fade the 
color over the past 30 years & the shade wasn't close. I went back & he used 
a spectrometer/computer/color scanner thingy to get the correct color. It was 
closer to the correct shade but still no dice. I guess if you're planning on 
painting the entire car it wouldn't matter if the color wasn't an exact 
match, but something close enough. BTW, sorry the site name didn't work for 
you, I may have typed it incorrectly.

Tom

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