Anyone know what color this was painted? I've searched and come up with nothing. Sometimes it looks coral, other times a bit orange-red. Amazing car, amazing color!
This does not give the color but gives names of owners in 2014. I beleive they still own it. Ty contacting them. https://hotrodderhistory.com/untold/?album=537&album_ses=1#aigpl-album-gallery-1
Buddy of mine just bought this 40 and it looks to be the same shade of 80's coral. I'll ask him if knows the paint code.
Old red car paint from the fifties and sixties faded quickly into something like the color you are looking at, eventually becoming a white frosted pink. A good waxing of a white frosted pink would get it back to something like what I see in your photo.
Seems like the car was painted pre-58 based on the articles I've read. So it could be 57 ford coral sand or 56 ford cameo coral or maybe a faded red/orange. It's difficult to pinpoint as even different pictures are drastically different in shade and color.
Might be 1953 Ford “Flamingo Red”. Time period is right and it seems to be more red/orange or lighter based on lighting.
That first pic in the garage is heavily saturated, don't compare using that! Barbarian may be onto something, that looks like it could be it, but pictures are not like being there.
@Barbarian @alchemy @Model A Gomez Nice eye on the color Hello, Wow, what a color and name… as a teenager, that name stood out like a sore thumb. When we heard and then saw this cool 1940 Ford Sedan Delivery rolling into the central Bixby Knolls drive-in restaurant parking lot in 1960, the color was looking rather orange under the parking lot lights. Come to find out, the just newly built sedan delivery was the only 348 powered hot rod in our Bixby Knolls area. It sounded as if it were in the A/gas cl*** at our local Lion’s Dragstrip. But, as it came into the lot and parked, everyone had to have a closer inspection. I was amazed at the sedan delivery and instantly thought of our surfing road trips up and down the coast. My friend from junior high school and high school was the builder. He has/had a long history in hot rods and drag racing. He lived near Lion’s Dragstrip, too. It was the latest build for that time. new motor, transmission, set up and complete hot rod. But, as much as it was so cool looking, no one gave it much thought. The big question was why? It only held 2 people, the back area was empty, it may have sounded nice, but it looked like the TV repair guy’s panel truck or the local plumber’s truck. It was hard to convince the teens gathered there that it was much cooler than the blazing red 40 Ford sedan with a Buick motor and LaSalle transmission sitting in the parking stall a few cars over. The sedan had top all white tuck and roll upholstery done right down the street and was a great looking build in itself. But, in comparison, the sedan delivery had more of a fast hot rod look than the spiffy red sedan. Jnaki So what about the color? The builder told everyone he just painted it late last night and it was a racer orange color. The word in the parking lot was “Salmon Pink.” Every time he heard people saying it was salmon pink, he got irritated. So much so that the next time he came back to the drive-in parking lot, it had a for sale sign on it. no one gave it much though for a purchase other than me. No one wanted a “Salmon Pink” hot rod… So, for the next week or so, we went back and forth on a price equal to what he wanted and what I could offer. Finally, he relented and said he had another drag racing project and needed the 348 motor, so for my price, the sedan delivery got a low powered Flathead motor. It was my first official purchase of any car let alone a cool surf transportation vehicle. Everyone thought I was crazy… I added the chrome beauty trim rings to go with the Ford center hubcaps, but it was “salmon Pink…” I must have had an iron stomach and a invisible shield to ward off all of the “what the f… color is that…?” every time I stopped at our surf spots all along the coastline. In the drive-in parking lots, I did have an strong sense of it was my own car, bought with my own money and I was the one driving it to school everyday, the Friday night dances after the big games and on Saturday/Sunday , spending all day/night at various surf spot on the So Cal coastline. It had plenty of space to sleep in the private cave in the back, never had any repairs and although it was very low powered for the steep coastal highways, we endured the slow crawl and the flying comments heard almost every day… Salmon Pink… Ha! The last laugh was on them… 5 years and thousands of miles on our adventures made my time happy and very satisfied. It ran on any kind of oil and gas from high end Supreme to the low grade Pemex Gas when and if we needed it, below the Baja border surf adventures. Things looked brighter, but it was still "Salmon Pink..."
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