City Grey Paint Code - ICI Code anyone

keanej

keanej

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I need to get some paint mixed ( for my P4 which is painted in Rover 2000 City Grey circa 1964 or at least the roof is ), its difficult for me to take the car or part of the car to the paint supplier to get the exact match

So does some one have the correct ICI mix code for City Grey ?


Thanks, John



Edited By keanej on 1201612453
 
No response yet - some one must have some colour swatches !

For info I found this site which has loads of paint mix formulae but not the one I need !

Glassurit

John
 
Digging through some old P4 Guild magazines, back in 95 and again in 2003 there is quite a comprehensive list of paint codes and formulae specifications printed, mainly coverring P4's but some P5 & P6 colours to.

I check with the P4 people and see if I can scan the pages and publish them on the P4 site and I'll add a link from here too.

Hope the people grit blasting the road wheels can use these codes I've found to plug into their spraying machine !

John
 
Wouldn't it be better to get the paint matched to the car ?
Then it will allow for 40 years of fading or if the car has been painted with paint of a slightly wrong mix
 
I have a code for Rovers City Gray (P030-4086)

Black P030-9901 47%
White P030-9929 38%
Reduced permanent green P062-9905 8%
Yellow Oxide P030-9911 7%

Hope this helps, got it from a Rover ICI colour sticker.
 
To be honest, paint never matches perfectly, you can always see the diference, but I agree with Dave, if possible take a bit of bodywork to the paintshop for matching. Mind you if your doing a two-tone P4 then you can probably respray the whole half of the car that needs to be that colour.
 
I have two P6's, both “Almond” both 3 different colours... One has obviously been stored in daylight more than the other which further changes the colour, even the re-skinned back doors that were done by someone who really knew what they were doing are a slightly different shade. I guess the only way to guarantee perfect colour match is to respray the whole car, otherwise all you can hope to do is match the panel to the one next to it...
 
And then if you match a panel to the one next to it , the new paint will "weather" faster initially than the adjacent panel , so if it matches now , it won't in a few years
 
Thanks

Bluemen that matches the info published in the P4 mag. The challenge now is to convert those 60's codes into the modern version which are used by the latest computer based mixing machines !

As for colour match, the paint is for the wheels to match with the roof so I'm not looking for an exact match.

When I needed some Dove Grey for the body, Macclesfield Paints (in Congleton) did an exact colour match using the petrol flap for a match - they did an excellent job

Thanks all

John
 
DaveHerns said:
And then if you match a panel to the one next to it , the new paint will "weather" faster initially than the adjacent panel , so if it matches now , it won't in a few years
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Sorry, yes, I did of course mean match to the panels next to it with consideration to all the usual factors...
 
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