[FC] Trying to ID Otiginal Greenbrier Paint Colors & Codes

[Dale Dewald]

Hello Mike,

Although it will be subject to errors from scanning, digital compression, 
and printing on your computer; the following URL
  http://tcpglobal.com/autocolorlibrary/cgi-bin/search/searchpic.pl?1964-chevrolettruck-pg01.jpg
which has scanned images of original Ditzler paint chip charts - note for 
Chevrolet truck.

Your description of the red stripe on the GB sounds like the stock two-tone 
treatment for an FC with either White (#8080) or Ivory (#8290) body 
color.  The stock stripe color was simply called Red (#70704), but it is a 
decidedly orange-red. Over time, the original paint fades to a slightly 
more orange-rust color.  The Orange (#60156) was more of a tangerine color 
[slightly yellow-orange to my eye].  If you are looking at the color chip 
on your computer, be aware that there may be significant color shift.  I 
try to compensate by looking at the color Yellow (#81348), which is school 
bus chrome yellow [which on my monitor it looks like pumpkin].

Dale

At 10:59 PM 12/25/06 -0500, you wrote:

>I'm restoring the wife's 64 Greenbrier Deluxe van. The exterior is not  the
>factory paint, but I suspect it is close to what was original;  I base this
>assumption upon the color of the original upholstery  and interior paint. It
>appears the exterior stripe around the middle was not  originally a bright 
>red,
>but rather an "orangish" red (the rest of the exterior  is white). Was there
>such an exterior stripe color? A refinish paint  chart, out of a 1961-1964
>Chevrolet Service News bulletin, shows a Corvair 95  exterior refinish 
>paint: "516
>Orange (DuPont # 31-L, Rinshed-Mason #A-1597 (both  Lacquers), or a Ditzler
>enamel #DQE-60156)."  Could this be the almost red,  but sorta' orange 
>exterior
>stripe color I'm looking for?


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