Featured Hot Rods Searching for the perfect Cream Color

@Royalshifter your '34 roadster will look killer in any of these cream colors, but especially the older ones.

 

The same code can have several variances.
The manufacturer will use multiple paint suppliers, multiple plants that paint cars and different batches of paint from the paint manufacturers.
I’ve wondered how older cars varied from the “paint chip” or what the manufacturer deemed acceptable from its various plants and from the paint manufacturer.
Do serious shows such as Peeble Beach or maybe a Bloomington Gold selection have color standards to go by?

I know we don’t really care. Just curious

 

GM Frost beige. Avatar is painted that. Been mentioned a couple of times here. Used throughout the 80's . Very low key color.

 

Summit's Wimbledon White. Quite a bit "creamier" than the WW on my early 80s Dodge pickup, as well as Ford's WW.
Some of the colors posted are just plain ol' yaller! Something I would call primrose yaller.

 

@Mike Lawless I see you cruising that truck in Clovis quite often.

 

“Cream” is not yellow……..it’s an off white pastel color. 50-60’s Ford and GM “whites” were creamy….in the 90’s that all went to a bright or stark white. Cream does not blind you in sunlight the new whites do.

Creams were used on many midgets, sprints, and champ cars in the 50-60’s as scalloping finished off with red pinstripes.

 

Cord Cigarette Creme is it.

 

Cream is tough. Too much Yellow and your chicken, too brown and you are a dirty turdy.

I do love the Tobacco Cream. Those Packard Guys spent a lot of time and effort to be "cream of the crop".

Just having a little fun with words, I am sure you will nail whatever flavor you land on. Your stuff is always spot on and I can't wait to see the finished product.

- Tim

 

@TERPU thank you Tim.

 

Hello,

When I used to use cream in my coffee and I watch my wife all of these years mixing and drinking her coffee, cream is/was used daily. The color in the ford convertible is yellow, a pale yellow like my brother’s first hot rod sedan, a 51 Oldsmobile.
Most of the work modifying was done when it was this color starting in 1956. by 1957 fall, it got painted a lime green and it got sold to a good friend who lived in our neighborhood.


For lack of a better name, we called it pale yellow. It was in the yellow family, not the cream family. So, most of the photos presented on this thread seem to be some shade of yellow. Not, cream. Cream is what one used to pour into coffee and comes in a milky concoction to some flavored shades of whitish beige. So, the top of the 50 Ford Convertible is more cream, not the bottom.

@51504bat has the right color combination. Beige is more cream than yellow shades. Who puts yellow color milk in coffee, anyways? Ha!

Jnaki

Back a long time ago, I took this photo in front of the back side of the OC airport. Pretty close to where the original Santa Ana Dragstrip was located near Redhill Ave.

It was a darker beige that took on the lighter color, like @51504bat paint job, when the sun moved to a different angle. YRMV

 

I like it and so does Donovan!

 

Donn Lowe's Chevy is a great cream colour as well. Suppsed to be PPG vanilla shake but always seemed less white to me in most of the pictures I have seen but as has been stated pictures are pretty useless in judging colour.

 

Yep. That's my town. You live here too? Might be nice to do a face to face sometime.
We do a "Cars and Coffee" at Cross City church on Nees just west of Willow on Saturday mornings, between 8 & 10. Usually a pretty good turnout, with 70-80 cars on average.