This time period is right in my wheelhouse, especially on west coast cars, and tracks. Some if not most of these cars paint colors were factor colors, that were a little off. That’s because virtually all paint for body shops was mixed at the local parts house, using a factory formula. Paint mixing was an art, and therefore many parts houses had a lot of bad mixes sitting around. So, if you really want to represent the era, thing fifties, and early sixties, factory colors. Oh, and don’t forget industrial colors. The local track had a couple of years when a lot of cars were painted with one of several tries at duplicating school bus yellow. Some of the racers would ask the paint guy to put a squirt of some other tint color in his batch, just to be different than the other guys. Real custom paint colors were almost never seen in my neck of the woods.
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