What color is my car......

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Guys, my Newport is heading to paint in 2 weeks, and I'm having a hard time identifying what color it actually is. By the fender tag it began life as a white car but was repainted yellow in 1992. I want to go with the yellow it has now, but am having a hard time figuring out what paint number to tell my
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That looks a lot like the 67 SS-1 Plymouth Soft Yellow or Chrysler Ivory (Same color different name)
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But it could be RR-1 Yellow, but we are just guessing. Not being original I'd just start flipping through the paint chip books.


Alan
 
Nice car, needs white walls though, doesn't it?
 
I have a paint chip chart for my '73 Imperial, it shows as Y-2 Sun Fire Yellow PPG #81574. Check it out... beautiful color. Got anymore pics of your car by the way? She looks great. And I agree with Matt.. maybe some white walls in the future?
 
Guys, my Newport is heading to paint in 2 weeks, and I'm having a hard time identifying what color it actually is. By the fender tag it began life as a white car but was repainted yellow in 1992. I want to go with the yellow it has now, but am having a hard time figuring out what paint number to tell myView attachment 126531 View attachment 126532 View attachment 126533 View attachment 126534 View attachment 126535 View attachment 126536 painter. Help?

Mopar Paint Chips

Here is all the Mopar paint charts from 1957 to 1979. You should be able to figure out what color you want with these charts. Save this link to your favorites and/or your desktop.
 
The shade of yellow is too light to be Sunfire Yellow and it isn't the '68 HH1 Yellow Gold that is on my '68 Sport Fury as it is too light of a shade of yellow to be the '68 C Body yellow. It may not be a Chrysler color and may not be a '60's or '70's color. Your paint guy may just need to mix up a yellow that matches the current color. Good luck.

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It looks like the Ivory color of our 65 Plymouth. I belive it was code "S" color. We had a 65 Dart GT conv. the same color also.
 
I have a paint chip chart for my '73 Imperial, it shows as Y-2 Sun Fire Yellow PPG #81574. Check it out... beautiful color. Got anymore pics of your car by the way? She looks great. And I agree with Matt.. maybe some white walls in the future?


White walls wouldn't go with the Torq Thrusts that are on the car now. Maybe some RWL, but only after current tires are worn out. They're nearly new. For some reason I thought it was the same color as my old Daffodil Yellow '67 Newport 4-door was. Now, I'm not so sure.
 
67 SS1 would have been "cream".... 68's had a very similar color HH1 which would have been called "light gold"
 
67 SS1 would have been "cream".... 68's had a very similar color HH1 which would have been called "light gold"
By the way, HH1 was a more deep yellow than the SS1 ... that may be your beast but again, if you want the same, they're gonna want to mix to match.
 
Being a repaint there is NO way to know what this color is, it could be Ford Chevy or Amana, there were no Yellows in 68 on the Chryslers, In 67 there was.

The names for the color may be different between Dodge/Plymouth/Chrysler each year but the colors are the same per code.
67 SS1 - Cream/Soft Yellow/Ivory (this color is more yellow than tan)
67 RR1 - Yellow/Yellow/Daffodil Yellow
68 SS1 - Yellow/Sunfire Yellow/(not listed for chrysler)
69 Y2 - Yellow/Sunfire Yellow/(not listed for chrysler)
69 Y3 - Cream/Yellow Gold/Antique Ivory / (Champagne Imperial)

The auto paint suppliers have a gun that can read the paint and pic a color from the database, a color this old may not show up.
A misconception on these guns is that they can match custom colors and make the formula, they are not that smart.

So either pick an original color based on seeing different cars, see if they can detect this color, or just go pick a new color.


Alan
 
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