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.

 

I used Vanilla Shake as the suspension contrast color on my '55 Chevy. I love that color.

 

I don't have a color code, but my '40 Ford is in that range.

 

Here's an online library of colors you can look up by make and year. If you see something you like, and you know the year, make, and model. You can see a chip and get the color code for reference.

When I painted the Caddie and the matching Telecaster in my avatar, I got the color code from the above website under the '55 Cadillac chart.

https://www.autocolorlibrary.com/

 

@Whoamel that is the problem with that site no reference or code of "Cigarette Cream" by Auburn or Cord of 1937 year which is a color I am leaning on.

 

The bad thing with old colors is usually there is just the name. Especially low production cars.
You’d match the color to a chip for that year car and make from a chip book.
Old school paint guys could go from there tinting to match.
The ACA guys mentioned these cigarettes as being the inspiration for the color and name.
Truth? I don’t know
this came up as well
Do you have a paint store with a master chip book?
Might be worth checking out

 

looks good with the red

 

Perfect!

 

We recently painted some hubcaps at school. I posted the pic here and a member asked about the color
An off white kinda color.
The paint was donated so I took this pic of the can
The number is from a chip book. No real name or car manufacturer code

Just mentioning this as there will be a code for the hue you’re looking for. Ya just got to find it.

 

Painted my car “vanilla milkshake” in some pics it’s looks more white and in others more cream

 

I’m a fan of the ‘60s Chevrolet Butternut Yellow. Looks more creamy yellow to me than straight up yellow.

 

The Color is good, but the Chevy is even better. I love those early GM Three Winders.

 

RAL colour sheet is best.
aulis

 

That's probably the result of the color temperature of the light you're viewing the car in. Bright, sunny, cloudless days with a high sun will make the color appear colder. The same day with a low early morning or late evening sun (the so called "golden hours") will make colors appear warmer.

Then mix in all the variations resulting from artificial lighting. Fluorescent, incandescent, mercury vapor, halogen, LED, camera strobe flash, etc., will all cause varying degrees of color shifts. The only color that might appear the same under any lighting condition might be black. This is what makes it so tricky to pick a paint color, especially on a computer monitor that may not have been precisely color calibrated.

Before the digital camera days even the type of film used would affect color balance. Ektachrome tended to have a colder blueish shift; Kodacolor had fairly neutral, almost flat colors; Kodachrome was favored for boosting reds for a more saturated, warmer look.

 

My 46 Olds OEM 2-tone. Pawnee beige over new ivory.

 

Wow that is a rich Ivory...nice.