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08-05-2004, 06:34 PM
Upon advice of one of my good pals I stopped at the local Ace Hardware & paint emporium to talk to them about color matching some enamel for "the old utility trailer" I'm refurbishing. (If you tell him you're going to use it on a car or truck they won't do it.) The guy who runs their analyzer wasn't in, so it was suggested I arm myself with color samples in the meantime . . . might find something there that would fit the bill. Fair enough. I selected a half-dozen cards that looked like they'd bracket the green on the bolt I'd removed from my truck to use as a sample. (I'm not the one who'll be making the decision; I'm leaving that up to someone with an unerring sense of color matching, like Vern Tardel and my youngest daughter. When Tardel eyeballed up a match of this-and-that from leftovers in his paint shed for the 15-inch wheels, I was thrilled to pieces with the results. Not Tardel, who commented "It needed a bit more blue." When I got home that evening and called my daughter outdoors to see the new wheels she allowed as how they looked great, " . . . but could have used some more blue."!)
The new paint will be for the interior which wasn't repainted when the truck was given an inexpensive re-spray many years ago. That, along with the new motor, suspension, and trans is part of the Fall/Winter program.
In the meantime, there are some bits of exterior ugliness resulting from that old cheapy re-spray that I want to correct, along with some areas of the engine compartment that has not received any paint since it rolled out of the Richmond, California, assembly plant in 1948. With that in mind, I hit the rattlecan shelves for some gloss-black Krylon, found it and was about to walk away when I noticed a row of Krylon cans with dark-green caps that were, well . . . damn near identical to the color on the bolt I'd just put back in my pocket! Out comes the bolt again, and sure enough it's awful close. Now, I know you can trust a plastic cap for being a dead-nuts match to what's in the can, but at $3.69 it was an affordable gamble.
The punchline is that the Krylon dark-green is close enough to almost escape detection in the areas I'll be using it. I've already sprayed the rear bed sill (below the tailgate) and it looks terrific! Although I doubt it would fool Tardel or my daughter . . .
BTW, the mismatch isn't nearly as pronounced in real life as it appears here.
The new paint will be for the interior which wasn't repainted when the truck was given an inexpensive re-spray many years ago. That, along with the new motor, suspension, and trans is part of the Fall/Winter program.
In the meantime, there are some bits of exterior ugliness resulting from that old cheapy re-spray that I want to correct, along with some areas of the engine compartment that has not received any paint since it rolled out of the Richmond, California, assembly plant in 1948. With that in mind, I hit the rattlecan shelves for some gloss-black Krylon, found it and was about to walk away when I noticed a row of Krylon cans with dark-green caps that were, well . . . damn near identical to the color on the bolt I'd just put back in my pocket! Out comes the bolt again, and sure enough it's awful close. Now, I know you can trust a plastic cap for being a dead-nuts match to what's in the can, but at $3.69 it was an affordable gamble.
The punchline is that the Krylon dark-green is close enough to almost escape detection in the areas I'll be using it. I've already sprayed the rear bed sill (below the tailgate) and it looks terrific! Although I doubt it would fool Tardel or my daughter . . .
BTW, the mismatch isn't nearly as pronounced in real life as it appears here.