Yellow paint

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The Ford “grabber yellow” seems to be a lot flatter of a color…

Garth (IIRC) might weigh in on this topic…

I don't know if the yellow used in 74 is the same as 1972, but here are some resources...

Attached is a list of Paint Codes for 71-72 (now obsolete).

And here's a color palette for the Pantera:

Color chip from 1971:

I had the original yellow paint on my 72 pre-L scanned back in 2004 and this is the code for PPG Concept paint.  The color is nearly spot on!  Unfortunately, the painter who painted my Pantera didn't want the code and insisted he had the correct code, and now I have a greenish-yellow Pantera!  The new color has totally lost the "pop" it once had! 

Here's another document with color codes for 1974 Panteras

Here's a table I had saved, but don't recall the source:

More paint codes in the attached PDF's, which may be duplicates of the codes I've already posted - just digging through my archives of info saved over the past 21 years.

Here's the PPG mix code for 71-74 yellow provided years ago by Barry Sieb from Canada - I believe he had his original color matched.

Just keep in mind that touching up a 55 year old enamel color, with aging, sun fade etc is completely different from repainting the whole car.

@bosswrench posted:

Just keep in mind that touching up a 55 year old enamel color, with aging, sun fade etc is completely different from repainting the whole car.

Soooooo true!!!! I had to match Paint for well over 25 years for the airplanes I did work on… Not a chance in Hell the original paint would match!

And the color YELLOW is an absolute Bit@$!!!

@bosswrench posted:

Just keep in mind that touching up a 55 year old enamel color, with aging, sun fade etc is completely different from repainting the whole car.

FWIW, when I had my paint scanned with a colorimiter (IDK if that's the correct term) we sanded, polished and buffed a section of my original paint where there was minimal crazing.  The resulting color from the formula the computer spit out was pretty spot on, and any difference might be the product of two completely different types of paint - comparing the original single-stage enamel with the modern 2-stage basecoat-clearcoat (which does have more gloss I think).

Barry sent me a sample card of his yellow that he sprayed out years ago, but I don't know where it is right now - I'm sure it's somewhere in the garage.

@bosswrench posted:

Just keep in mind that touching up a 55 year old enamel color, with aging, sun fade etc is completely different from repainting the whole car.

I had the entire car glass beaded back to bare metal, now coated with epoxy primer awaiting bodywork.

You are right, you'd never get a touch up to match 50 year old paint.

My plan is to have a base coat mixed if I come up with the right formula.  PPG  no longer makes the 82110 color code.

If anyone has the formula for a base coat clear coat painting it would be appreciated.

The only color left on the car is on the firewall so may try to color match with that if all else fails.

The entire body hell was painted before assembly, so usually under the dash, the floor, the door edges and front trunk under the carpeting and other such hidden places are a good source of "original" paint. You might even find that your car was originally a different color. The OEM paint shade was on a sticker somewhere in the front trunk, but few stickers survived the '70s, much less until now.