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Originally Posted by muscle_collector
good vintage pic on the first one. it clearly shows the problem that they had with the water based paint on the gold cars as the nose is a totally different color. a friend bought one new and it came with the mismatched nose and when he complained they repainted the whole car for him. which pissed him off and so they took it back and ordered him one from the other plant which the gold was more yellow than the brownish color of the other type paint.
your third picture shows the two different colors of gold .
on your last picture, has the car been restored or is it still original? beautiful car.
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Your post brings up an interesting issue. It would appear that the factory had variations of code 50 depending on which plant built the car. My Y88 is a Norwood built car. I was looking through an old DuPont paint color chart yesterday and looked at the code 50 paint chip. The gold there looks very light and more toward the yellow spectrum. GM had another gold (don't remember the code now) in '78 that was darker and maybe more of that brown look you were talking about. Since some of these cars were painted when new under warranty, the color on some survivors may be incorrect depending on how the shop mixed it. Gold is one of those colors that is not easy to match. Having the wrong amount of metalflake is another whole issue as well. What is considered the "correct" color for these cars?