FY4 Paint

[Purple73Cuda]

I got an email from a friend who is new to the Mopar hobby. He bought a '70 Super Bee and is doing the sheetmetal repairs and body work.Below is the email he sent me.
"One question, I am about to purchase paint for the car.  I am going to go with Base Coat clear coat but the company I am going to purchase the gallon of paint states that PPG or Dupont do not have the exact chip match anymore for a Dodge 1970 Fy4 .  It seems like the closest they have is 1975 Chevy gold metallic???   Are there companies out there that sell paint to the exact FY4 color code?? "
Has anyone run into this before? Is the paint store wrong? Can anyone help?

 

[Purple73Cuda]

Who sells the correct FY4 paint in a basecoat/ clearcoat? How about in a single stage?

['Cuda Hunter]

No replies?  I am surprised.
Someone on here has to know where to find this color paint.
Keep trying! 

BUMP,  BUMP, BUMP !

[Alaskan_TA]

1970 paint chip charts if it helps;

http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/paintChipCharts/1970PaintChipCharts-01.shtml

FY4 = Y4 on the charts.

[solarguy]

I was able to get PPG in Y4 a few years ago when my Cuda was painted.  I don't know about the variants between 70-74, I would think they are the same

[HemiOrange70]

My bodyguy states that the new water based paints do not have alot of the old colors as of yet.

[Purple73Cuda]

Is paint be sold now a days all water based? Can you get the same paint used when the cars were built?

[DMZ73]

There is a good resource at Autocolorlibrary.com.
YOu can print out the sheets there, and they have all the codes listed, with the PPG numbers.

Go to a good local paint store, and see if they can cross reference to get a sample. The guys should also be able to match a chip with a spectrum analyzer.


MOst of the diffuculty lies in the fact that the  old PPG codes are  DBL (laquer) I think. Nowadays they use DBU (Urethane) If you can find a shop, they might be able to cross reference the number.
If you are going to use waterborne, thats unfamiliar territory here.

Good luck, and let me know how it goes!

Dan