Technical '59 Ford Custom 300 - Interior paint codes?

Wondered if anyone has guidance on interior paint codes for my '59 Ford Custom 300? The trim code '02' only states "Blue Ribbed Vinyl Bolster and Blue Random Block Fabric". I'm trying to find a paint code for the dash and inner trim panels.
I've found Ford offered "Wedgewood Blue" and "Surf Blue" in '59 but the Wedgewood is too light and the Surf Blue seems too dark but does have a metallic look to it as I have on my dash. Thoughts? Opinions?

20220723_151957 by 59'er F100 posted Aug 11, 2022 at 1:36 PM

1959 Paint Chips by 59'er F100 posted Aug 11, 2022 at 1:36 PM

 

Try Louis Champeau. He has been researching that kind of info for years. His e-mail is [email protected]

 

My interior was the same color. I'm thinking wedgewood blue from what my ID plate had on it.

The Witches of Eastwick at the DMV took my title behind closed doors for 20 minutes. Somehow they were able to come up with the fact that the exterior was a 2-tone, while the ID plate showed it as colonial white.

 

@Bangingoldtin , Thanks for the info, I will reach out.

@bobss396 Was your wedgewood blue metallic at all? The lower side of my dash has a metallic look as well as the seat sheet metal. Yes, the DMV has a funny way of making you feel like there is a man behind the curtain!!

 

This is a '59 that I had back in '78. It was, without a doubt, the nicest driving car I have owned. I bought it out of a back yard in Craig, Colo. The color was that washed out pink and wimbleton white. I repainted the pink with '78 Ford Chamois, which is what the color should have been in the first place. The picture is old and faded, but the old Ford looked great....

 

@cabong Great looking ride! I really love the look of these cars!!

 

Mine was metallic. I have some extra interior parts I believe are also the same color. I'll have to take a look at them. My dad had a 59 Ranch Wagon, same color in and out. That was a metallic.

 

Found this at the Auto Color Library …

https://www.autocolorlibrary.com/pages/1959-ford#parentHorizontalTab8

mine is Green Metallic 83357-H

IMG_3608 by Gercow posted May 25, 2024 at 9:22 PM

 

I tried the same for my 57 and had no luck. I happened to have a few parts with nice paint left on them. I clean them up a bit with polish and took them to my local paint show and they matched it really well and I got a 1qt can and did my interior. But need led more of the tiny parts and some touch up so went back. They keep the new formula and made another qt for me.

 

I think the interior blue on 59 is a bit darker than the 57 one. Also even with the chips they have to make a match. do find a sample of the interior part and have it matched. I hit my with satin finish.

 

I did not know that you can take the entire dash out. Been driving mine since July 2000

 

Oh yes, the dash comes out. I was looking at my parts in the garage recently and I will say that the OP has Surf Blue on his dash.

 

Awesome! It looks like the blue on my 59 Ford is the same as my 59 Edsel

 

For the most part old paint codes are useless. Unless a paint company has needed to reformulate that specific colour at some point for something they will not have a crossover to create and old code with the new toners. As has been mentioned your best bet is to take something like the glove box door into a paint jobber and have them match that with an existing colour.

 

I tried to have Colonial White matched at one place, no good. I wound up going with Wimbledon White. It may depend on where you go to have the paint sourced.

 

Not really. The problem is the new toners from all the paint companies are not the same colour as the old ones so like I said unless the specific paint company has had a need to design a new formula to match the old (which for the most part is highly unlikely) they have no formula or way to cross over to old formulas.