Dark blue paint

I am looking for a nice dark blue for my 31 pontiac please post up some pics with paint information please

 

There is a dark blue paint used on Toyota pick ups through the eighties and nineties. A little different from Ford Washington blue. Gives a nice old timmey look and often a little cheaper than car paint.

 

Look at commercial colors.

 

'94 GMC had a great dark metallic blue.

 

Iv seen a nice one on the new fords

 

starlight blue iridescent ( R-M 5001) , 1950 pontiac color real dark blue , cannot find a chip of it that represents the true color .

 

I would like a solid color no metal flAke and something that dosent look purple

 

Look up a sample of midnight blue,no flake,metalics or purple in it. Looks black at night.

 

Heres my 31 Ford coupe. Its Lombard blue a stock Ford color for that year. It looks black in some light.

 

66 mustang dark blue metallic

 

VW Indian Blue. Single stage/ NAPA brand

 

I like that also like Washington blue

 

2011 ford, looks awesome when the sun is on it...

 

46 ford barcelona blue--also a porche color about 98 that is very similar--no metallic---see the color in my album on kid's 40--looks black at night or in the shade

 

My '13 Mustang is that color ('Impact Blue'), I'd like to paint my '47 that color too. Lots of highlights when it's in the sun!

 

2013 Camaro dark blue. We have one belonging to a local car dealer sitting in the concourse at the airport where I work and I thought it was black for two weeks.

It's called blue ray on the Camaro but has other names on other gm cars

http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorco...3&smanuf=GM&smodel=Chevy Truck&sname=Blue Ray

82 Cad Deville twilight blue isn't bad either if you like more blue and a lot of metallic. I had a Deville coupe that color for a number of years.

 

Volvo/white commercial truck dark blue very nice. PPG commercial midnight blue also nice

 

Yes the fenders are black. You might also look into Adalusite Blue. Its a 30 Ford color also darker than Washington blue. Heres how the car looks now. I'm slowly turning it into a hot rod circa 1938 The wheels will be black also

 

I have a 2000 trans am that color

 

I finally walked over and looked at the sheet in the window the other day to make sure of what the color was. Shady side looks jet black.

 

This is Washington blue

 

Sheridan Blue, yet another early Ford color

 

look at a "fleet" color chart. Every shade from light to almost black. Local paint store should have one.

 

I'll give paint info if you're interested, Its raining right now and I don't want to walk out to the shop.

 

I had the top of my Forty Ford coupe done in the dark blue color from Toyota. It does resemble the Washington Blue early Ford color. I think it is a bit darker actually. I do not know if this is the color that modela steve is referring to, but I think it is. I have the color code at my shop and could pass it on tomorrow if you would like. There are a couple of shots in my albums of the Forty with the top painted. Definitely does not show purple in any light conditions I have encountered.

 

Laidlaw trucking fleet color.

 

I would appreciate any information I can get

 

I have a '35 Ford tudor sedan with the original Dearborn Blue paint. It's a darker blue than Fords Washington Blue paint used in '36. Looks a lot like the color of that '31 Model A that someone posted pictures of earlier on this thread. Dearborn Blue looks like black at night and deep dark blue in the sunlight. My absolute favorite early Ford car color. I have pictures in Photobucket but probably can't post using my iPhone.

 

kind of a washington blue on this one it was a PPG color with some more black that i dumped in..

 

I just went through this for a customer wanting to paint a Model T. I wound up giving them about a dozen potential colors, we shot a total of four test panels. The most promising colors were Mercedes Benz DB 904 (almost black) from the mid 1980's, and DB 322 (lots lighter) from the late 1970's. One problem you will have with most older colors is that the paint formulas are not available for most of them, and trying to match a little paint chip in a book is a tough proposition.

You might look at http://www.ppgpaintit.com/Collision.aspx?Year=2013&Brand=ppgna This is a general compilation of PPG colors by year (from 2010 to current) and can you can look at either look at solids or metallics over the spectrum of colors. Not planning to use PPG? They still tell you what the use and manufacturers code is.

You might also look at http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?comm=midnight+blue&rows=50&button=Search This is a huge library of colors and paint codes, along with paint chips. You can search by paint color names, like 'midnight blue' or 'dark blue', etc to see if there is something you like

If you know the year, OEM, and paint code and want to look at chips, you might try here http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorlibrary/ If I understand an e-mail I got from TCP recently, they are only mixing their Restoration Shop paints, and are not mixing any more PPG.

Good luck in your quest. I strongly suggest narrowing your search down to two or three colors, then see your local paint jobber to buy some 4 oz samples of what you are interested in. This should be enough to shoot an 18 by 24 inch test panel over the sealer or primer you plan to use, along with the clear over the top, so you can be more sure of the color you are spending your money on.