ugh... why the heck can't I get a good B5 Blue...

[EvilTwinATX]

UGH! Getting very close to paint and still having trouble getting color sample I like...
AAR Rudy's car is gorgeous...but the paint samples I have gotten so far dont look like his! I got some Dupont today and hopeing that will be better than the PPG Global I got.

Any suggestions? Paint gurus help!!

[moparman11]

I am not a paint guy, but I tried to buy some b7, to cut the doors and trunk in, I told the guy that it was a color on some of the mid-sixties mopars, He mixed a half gallon, and it was like a b5. After he checked, Dupont had changed the codes a few years earlier. This was in 2001, when  I did this, he said they had apparently changed it in the mid-nineties. I dont know if this is true or not,but I do know it didnt match. Good luck, John

[Stacked440]

Usually it matters on the line of paint as well, dupont has different "grades" of paints, Centari being I BELEIVE the lowest, and Chroma Premier being the highest grade, are you doing enamel or base/clear?

[FY1Cuda]

I can't say much about Dupont's B5, but we got some Dupont Chroma-Base in C-7 Plum Crazy for our Challenger project a few years ago and it was rather greyish compared to the original C7 inside the doors.  I ended up buying a second quart and it was exactly like the first.  I did the engine compartment, jambs, and trunk with the Dupont and then had Miracle (a CA painting chain) do the exterior.  At the time, they were using Sherwin-Williams, and their color was dead-on to the original.  So for my money, I wouldn't automatically trust Dupont to have a spot-on B5

[fishn4cuda]

Always ask if there is a variance on any color. C7 has a variance and Value shade #2 is correct in Dupont. I do not remember if B5 has a variance.

[EvilTwinATX]

I have asked if there is a variance... and have been told no. However there are differing formulas for 69-70...and 71-73 and another for 74. At this point I am just plain confused. I called Ken Mosier (he was helpful) and he told me his 71 Cuda was a Dupont GB5 blue and then I contacted AAR Rudy and he said his paint (absolutely gorgeous) was a stock Dupont 4982 B5 ('70)...

I have a friend that I just met this morning with... he has a 70 Coronet R/T Vert and his paint is darker than the original and looks like AAR Rudy's.. he used Spies paint BC/CC.

At this point I am just thinking it is a mixing issue... hard to match I guess. Especially when I dont have a sample chip to use as a match.

[fishn4cuda]

I have to admit B5 from 69 to 74 changes in shade. 69 being more metallic/ or silver and 74 being a little more blue or as I call it electrifying.