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Old 08-26-2024, 04:51 PM
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Default 1958 Redwood Copper paint code?

It’s finally time to paint my ‘58 Bonneville. I believe the paint code was UVV, the car is at the shop now. The car is Redwood Copper with a white top and white spear. We are having trouble finding a paint code for the Redwood Copper. One shop found a code and mixed some up- turned out to be some sort of rose color which isn’t right. Can anybody help out with a paint code?

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Old 08-26-2024, 08:03 PM
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'58 Redwood Copper Poly was code U, Ditzler DDL-21516, Dupont 2687L / 882-90397L.
It is a 1-yr, 1-Division color ['58 Pontiac ONLY].

Paintref.com is a great site : https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorco...r=1958&rows=50

Congrats on owning a '58 B - have always liked. Hardtop or droptop?

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Old 08-26-2024, 08:58 PM
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We had that PPG code mixed up and it really looks more coral than copper. I hate to have to pick a ‘close’ color for such a nice car. This one is a Tri Power hard top car.
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Old 08-27-2024, 03:42 PM
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I have a set of original 1958 Dupont chips, it shows code 2867-L, as stated in an earlier post.

The chip I have DOES have a pink tint to it.

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Old 08-27-2024, 05:38 PM
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I ordered a few chips off if eBay. I figure we can have them scanned and spray some samples to see how they look.

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Any panels on the car....with some jam color ??

Like undah the deck lid...door pillars ?

If so ...clean them up...and get a camera shot....and like you said...spray out cards....many of them

Or windshield pinch weld

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Old 08-28-2024, 12:20 AM
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The body shop said the underside of the trunk looks like it hasn’t been painted so that is an option we are looking at. When I get the samples I will match them up to the trunk. We can always pull the trunk and have it scanned as well.

Unfortunately the car was already restored but in the wrong shade.

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