need help with paint! What is seafoam green?

Que,

Take a look at '53-'57 Ford pick ups, the build tag on my '54 spells out "Sea Foam Green" as original.

The above points up just why it's important to select a colour by its' code & not its' name. I can't begin to count jus how many "Ferrari Reds' there are!

'' All great truth begin as blasphemies "

 

Do you have any friends who can photoshop it with various colors?

Personally, I think a nice dark jade green would go better with that
gold top.

 

My 53 Merc is seafoam green(Ford approx 53)
TwoChops

 

57 Buick original color. I think it's a seafoam even if they call it Belmont Green.

 

I think you might be right. Any suggestions on the green?

 

Seafoam green is one of those girlie colors the women get all giddy over on the womens television channels.

 

My '68 Mustang came with paint officially called "Sea Foam Green". That was the factory name for the paint.

 

I painted our '51 gold - it's a little more on the yellow shade than yours (yours appears to be a little more on the brown side) with emerald green flames. Take a look in my photo album - it might help you decide if you'd want to go with the darker green.

 

Don't and I repeat don't pick a color off of a color chip or a photo. I guarantee it won't be what you want when you spray it on the car. Find a similar car to yours with the stock color you like then paint a panel and live with it for a while.

 

that seafoam green color that Rocky put up is about as close as you can get.

 

im with the 62 chevy color it has some mettalic in it ,90s honda and ford taures about the same year had a nice seafoam honda called it opal mettalic. i dont think the straight colors would look good with the metallic gold,just my 2 cents

 

This is a color a bodyshop was painting a 56 chevy pick up, I had them paint the guitar body at the same time. I think it is a seafoam green.

 

My ride is seafoam green- '53 Ford. I really don't think it will look good with that roof color. A darker green, maybe a forest-type green, would look great.

 

The lighter color is Seafoam Green...

 

Gold roof with "Sea Foam Green "? I 'm not too sure on that one. I would rethink that and consider black or a dark dramatic color to compliment the Gold flake. Just my op.

 

68 chev impala had it but it was closer to a silver

 

This is an old Fender guitar paint chart I liberated from another site. As you may or may not know, Fender used popular automobile colors of the day for their guitars.

<TABLE border=2 width="100%"><CAPTION>Fender's Original Custom Colors</CAPTION><TBODY><TR><TH>Color</TH><TH>Paint
Type</TH><TH>Paint
Number</TH><TH>Fender
Years</TH><TH>Car
Years</TH><TH>Car
Make</TH></TR><TR><TD>Lake Placid Blue metallic</TD><TD align=middle>Lucite</TD><TD align=middle>2876-L</TD><TD align=middle>60-73</TD><TD align=middle>58</TD><TD align=middle>Cadillac</TD></TR><TR><TD>Daphne Blue</TD><TD align=middle>Duco</TD><TD align=middle>2804</TD><TD align=middle>60-65</TD><TD align=middle>58</TD><TD align=middle>Cadillac</TD></TR><TR><TD>Shoreline Gold metallic</TD><TD align=middle>Lucite</TD><TD align=middle>2935-L</TD><TD align=middle>60-65</TD><TD align=middle>59-60</TD><TD align=middle>Pontiac</TD></TR><TR><TD>Olympic White</TD><TD align=middle>Lucite</TD><TD align=middle>2818-L</TD><TD align=middle>60-80</TD><TD align=middle>58-62</TD><TD align=middle>Cadillac</TD></TR><TR><TD>Burgundy Mist metallic</TD><TD align=middle>Lucite</TD><TD align=middle>2936-L</TD><TD align=middle>60-65</TD><TD align=middle>59</TD><TD align=middle>Oldsmobile</TD></TR><TR><TD>Inca Silver metallic</TD><TD align=middle>Lucite</TD><TD align=middle>2436-L</TD><TD align=middle>60-65</TD><TD align=middle>57-59</TD><TD align=middle>Chevy Corvette</TD></TR><TR><TD>Fiesta Red</TD><TD align=middle>Duco</TD><TD align=middle>2219-H</TD><TD align=middle>60-69</TD><TD align=middle>56</TD><TD align=middle>Ford Tbird</TD></TR><TR><TD>Dakota Red</TD><TD align=middle>Duco</TD><TD align=middle>2590-H</TD><TD align=middle>60-69</TD><TD align=middle>58</TD><TD align=middle>Cadillac</TD></TR><TR><TD>Blue Ice metallic</TD><TD align=middle>Lucite</TD><TD align=middle>4692L</TD><TD align=middle>65-69</TD><TD align=middle>65-66</TD><TD align=middle>Ford</TD></TR><TR><TD>Firemist Silver metallic</TD><TD align=middle>Lucite</TD><TD align=middle>4576L</TD><TD align=middle>65-71</TD><TD align=middle>64</TD><TD align=middle>Cadillac</TD></TR><TR><TD>Firemist Gold metallic</TD><TD align=middle>Lucite</TD><TD align=middle>4579L</TD><TD align=middle>65-71</TD><TD align=middle>64-65</TD><TD align=middle>Cadillac</TD></TR><TR><TD>Charcoal Frost metallic</TD><TD align=middle>Lucite</TD><TD align=middle>4618L</TD><TD align=middle>65-69</TD><TD align=middle>65-66</TD><TD align=middle>Lincoln</TD></TR><TR><TD>Ocean Turquoise metallic</TD><TD align=middle>Lucite</TD><TD align=middle>4607L</TD><TD align=middle>65-71</TD><TD align=middle>65</TD><TD align=middle>Mercury</TD></TR><TR><TD>Teal Green metallic</TD><TD align=middle>Lucite</TD><TD align=middle>4297L</TD><TD align=middle>65-69</TD><TD align=middle>65-68</TD><TD align=middle>Lincoln</TD></TR><TR><TD>Black</TD><TD align=middle>Duco</TD><TD align=middle>1711</TD><TD align=middle>60-84</TD><TD align=middle>all yrs</TD><TD align=middle>all makes</TD></TR><TR><TD>Sonic Blue</TD><TD align=middle>Duco</TD><TD align=middle>2295</TD><TD align=middle>60-72</TD><TD align=middle>56</TD><TD align=middle>Cadillac</TD></TR><TR><TD>Shell Pink</TD><TD align=middle>Duco</TD><TD align=middle>2371</TD><TD align=middle>60-63</TD><TD align=middle>56</TD><TD align=middle>Desoto</TD></TR><TR><TD>Foam Green</TD><TD align=middle>Duco</TD><TD align=middle>2253</TD><TD align=middle>60-69</TD><TD align=middle>56</TD><TD align=middle>Buick</TD></TR><TR><TD>Surf Green</TD><TD align=middle>Duco</TD><TD align=middle>2461</TD><TD align=middle>60-65</TD><TD align=middle>57</TD><TD align=middle>Chevy</TD></TR><TR><TD>Sherwood Green metallic</TD><TD align=middle>Duco</TD><TD align=middle>2526-H</TD><TD align=middle>60-65</TD><TD align=middle>57</TD><TD align=middle>Mercury</TD></TR><TR><TD>Candy Apple Red</TD><TD align=middle>n/a</TD><TD align=middle>none</TD><TD align=middle>63-73</TD><TD align=middle>n/a</TD><TD align=middle>n/a</TD></TR><TR><TH>Color</TH><TH>Paint
Type</TH><TH>Paint
Number</TH><TH>Fender
Years</TH><TH>Car
Years</TH><TH>Car
Make</TH></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

My first car was a 54 Ford 2 door Customline in Seafoam Green. A tutchup can so labeled lived on the railing by our attic steps for at least 20 years after the car was junked.

 

The Seafoam Green that Fender used (the ONLY seafoam green, IMO) was Dupont # Duco 2253 and was for 56 Buicks.

 

Haha, I guess I should actually read the second page before I post.

 

My father bought a brand-new '91 S10 with sea foam green on it , try looking in those years too.

 

I started with the idea of gold but to match the flake with gold is going to be hard.
Then I thought of a white sander sealer. 50s cutoms where driven in white primer in the old days. From there I started thinking a real light shade of seafoam might look okay.

I know a green would look good. I don't really want a modern lime type green. It would have to be medium to dark green.
Should it be metallic?

 

When you get home you have to go out and see Chad I was out there today..he started to paint that Mustang conv , door jambs inside trunk etc nice darker green metallic real pretty color, dark but not really dark, I really liked it and think it would look good with the gold flake.


I know a green would look good. I don't really want a modern lime type green. It would have to be medium to dark green.
Should it be metallic?[/QUOTE]

 

Try a 58 Chevy color.

 

1968 Ford color. See

http://www.svs.com/zim/mustang/images/1968-ford-ppg.jpg

 

Like so many others, I believe the "original" Sea Foam green was a '50's Ford color. It was original in my '51.

 

you want seafoam and gold???

seafoam is the coolest color in my book, but with gold?

 

This was seafoam green genuine '53 ford colour.

 

I think Indian had a seafoam green in 47-48.