1940 Ford Mandarin Maroon is right for my flathead powered Sport Coupe but it wouldn't look right with a metallic maroon.
I was food shopping and some lady pulls in with an OT 2020 Mustang, maroon in color. She said it was a stock color, man did it look rich. I have not seen another one before or since.
I just came across this one in an unrelated thread post (link below). It looks like a very nice dark maroon, but colors can look very different in different lighting. There's an antique Indian Motocycle maroon that looks similar to me, and I believe it's also similar to an Advance Design (AD) Chevy truck color. TOTAL Number of HAMB Build Projects
That doesn't look maroon to me. I believe there's a very nice Indian maroon, as I mentioned in #38. If I recall correctly, I haven't seen it on many of their models/years.
My family has used a circa-1982 Ford "Medium Red" on a number of vehicles. https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorc...ear=1982&smanuf=Ford&smodel=&sname=Medium Red
This is member @Baron car he has a build thread https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/another-deuce-rdstr-project.1138730/page-14 Maybe he will pop in and give the color.
Chevy custom truck... So Cal Hello, Here is an old Chevy truck getting some work done from a photo I took several years ago. As I was driving to a specific shop before the pandemic, I saw this flash of color in an alley of an industrial area. As I backed up, it was a cool looking low slung Chevy truck. I had enough time to quickly take a photo with my digital camera and had to continue on with the flow of traffic. Back a zillion years ago, a similar in color Chevy truck was my first hot rod truck to photograph. I saw it in a parking lot in Long Beach, as I was driving by. I happened to stop for some food close by and afterwards, drove back over and it was still parked in the same spot. It was pristine and a very clean, early hot rod build. The owner saw me looking at his truck and came out to talk to me. He was finished shopping and gave me some details from his build. It was his first try at building a hot rod truck. 283, 4 speed, Chevy 4:11 rear Positraction and some great looking chromed reversed rims on black walls. It had the custom look of a hot rod truck, but still had the attitude of a drag race car if needed. So, we drove over to a vast empty area and he said he would gladly allow me to take some photos in return for presenting my story+ photos to the local So Cal hot rod-custom car magazines. I was amazed. Jnaki So, we spent almost an hour + and I told him I would send finished photos and color slides to him when it was ready. For the next week, I spent my time writing a nice story about a first time build truck with a v8 Chevy driveline and power. I had taken notes from our conversation as he was very proud of his first attempt of a hot rod truck. When it was finished, the photo prints made and color slides back from the Kodak, I sent him his copy and said I would go to the magazines for a presentation of his immaculate build. Note: When I got to the editor’s desk, there was a conversation as part of the presentation. The first question asked was color slides? Yes… then we proceeded to go over the whole presentation. Upon hearing the color mentioned, maroon, I opted to interrupt and mention that the owner said Candy Colored Tahitian Red was his color paint. (specified in the notes and story) That may have been my mistake. After a 30 minute conversation, outlining how it was going to be set up for an article, we said our goodbyes. So, after several weeks of no notification about when the photo story was going to come out in the publication, I called and talked to the editor. He then proceeded to tell me that the Chevy truck was not going to be published as presented. The emphasis at the time were roadsters and fenderless ones at that. No (or very little) custom truck presentations were being accepted, unless they were “show cars” like the R&C Truck or the Ala Kart. Note 2: For all of the conversations I had, this took the cake… as the saying goes. But, it was their magazine and I wanted to be one of the first custom truck showcased pages in publications that showed street daily driver version hot rods. Not, show cars only. But, the emphasis for a long while were roadsters and coupes, not ordinary looking trucks driven daily. So, it never got published… booooo! The Maroon Color could have been a Candy Apple Tahitian Red color as specified. The editor did not like it that I had corrected him and mentioned the owner’s choice. He had already made his choice… YRMV
I painted this with a model paint maroon but I was going for Mandarin Maroon, a very traditional color.
I've got a full gallon of Honduras Maroon that I'd be happy to sell to fund my '32 rail purchase. Just don't know what the shelf life is on an unopened can. Bob
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