[one-eagle]

Why can't my paint shop get the correct color for midnight green (723) interior?
I've given them the factory codes, 44010 and 43993, but the colors they come up with aren't correct. I didn't think getting the right color interior paint would be this difficult. Is there something I'm missing?

[DjD]

How do you know what they have is not correct? If you are basing it off other cars they may not be correct and pictures are subjective because of how lighting effects things. If you can provide examples of what you want, the painter should be able to match it. In the end keep in mind 40 years has a big effect and there are very few cars stuck in time capsules. Most are interpretations of what original was.

[69-Pace]

Originally Posted by one-eagle

Why can't my paint shop get the correct color for midnight green (723) interior?
I've given them the factory codes, 44010 and 43993, but the colors they come up with aren't correct. I didn't think getting the right color interior paint would be this difficult. Is there something I'm missing?

Kyle -
Hum 1969? These are the numbers listed at paintref.com for midnight green interior 9593LH and 95882LH fro Dupont paints:

[69-Pace]

for 1968

[stouchton]

Colors on the assembly line varied a lot - both for paint and vinyl/plastic trim pieces. I fought this battle a lot till I met an old timer that worked on the assembly line. He told me about the variation they had to deal with and now I know why nothing matched in my 67 from the day it was new (been in our family all its life). He also explained why my dash pad was not a matching color!!

My exterior was Deepwater Blue - I had the body shop tweak it about a dozen times till it matched the underside of the trunk lid. Same goes for the interior.

Work with your paint supplier to get what you want. Ballpark is all the factory offered on matches.

[HIFLYR]

When I had my 69 conv stripped and repainted the factory color lemans blue the poor guy painted the car and it looked wrong and I objected and low and behold the paint store mixed the paint wrong. He fixed it but it impacted the final quality as he then cut corners but in the end it looks ok.

[one-eagle]

The car had, what I believe to be, the original paint on the dash and interior pieces. What I got from the paint shop is much darker. In fact it could be mistaken for black at a glance. I'll see what they can come up with using the codes from paintref.com. Does anyone have pictures of a 69 with midnight green interior they could post?

[TModel66]

Kyle I beat my head against the wall on this for about 6 months. Nobody could mix it. I finally got it from TCP Global out of California. It took them about 6 weeks to mix it.