bright blue interior - B5 dash info
PAINT CODES..... ok...
Regarding interior paint... the original blue under my dash pad was darker like I explained earlier. It should not match the exterior color of the Bright Blue/B5. A blue interior will have quite a few different colors going on around the cockpit of the car. (Before anyone starts to argue this point, I have researched this up and down, and got my final words from people such as Galen, and Roger Gibson, etc. I don't know.. I was born in 72, and cant remember what a blue interior looked like back then!) Blue interior is a difficult task in my opinion.... If you look at original Chrysler documents that list the paint codes for 1970, you'll see Exterior Gloss, Interior Gloss, Interior Low Gloss, and SUEDE FINISHES... The suede finish paint to my knowledge is no longer available..this creates the problem. Chrysler says the glove box, ash tray face, instrument panel, seat hinge covers, etc are painted with this suede finish paint. The color is listed as THUNDER BLUE POLY, #13848.
Now, I went to
http://www.tcpglobal.comThey have an amazing paint chip database. Select the make, and year, then the original factory sheets come up:
http://www.tcpglobal.com/aclchip.aspx?image=1970-plymouth-pg02.jpgNow, it was trial and error before I got the color that I went with. I ordered the Thunder Blue Poly listed under 1970 suede colors... I ordered the Acrylic Enamel #13848, This laid out real light, bright blue.... nowhere near the original. It was also way too glossy. We ended up mixing it with a medium interior flattening agent, and it still was way off. YOU DO NOT WANT 1970 THUNDER BLUE #13848. (if you do, I have a quart sitting on the shelf...haha)
We wondered what the base coat of the exterior bright blue would look like, mixed with the medium interior flattening agent, and no clear coat.... so....
I ordered the exterior code 2019 for 1970, in Acrylic Enamel.
The companies code for this was = AE-TCP2019(C), Acrylic Enamel. The label says= 1969 Plymouth Blue Fire Poly (Bright Blue Poly). (1969 and 1970 both use 2019 code for exterior) We mixed it with the flattening agent (medium), and first laid down a black sealer on the dash. The ended up being the closest thing to the original color. It was the darker, almost the kind of greenish blue I saw on the metal dash. I shot the dash, and plastic dash corners in this, and it looks great! The medium flattening agent made it perfect... duller, no real gloss to it, just perfect. The black sealer also darkened the color more like I wanted. I put on the dash pad, and the two blues look great next to each other. Not matching, (which they should not) but they go together the way they should.
I will try more pics, but they never show the true blue colors...
EXTERIOR...
The DuPont computer mixed the B5 exterior for my car... look at the pictures of the label for the break down of colors that make up the B5. We also used the new DuPont clear coat... 72500S
Hope this helps somebody out there.... I'll be glad when I restore my convertible with it's black interior!
