Friday, April 12, 2013

Tawney, Jasmine and Crystal Jade: the automotive colors of 1977 ...

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As the Seventies dawned, we had automotive colors with names taken from *ahem* risque films. Just seven years later, we had automotive colors with names that would eventually be adopted by *ahem* working ladies. Coincidence?

Okay, all kidding aside, this chart of color codes for 1977 domestic automobiles (AMC, FoMoCo, GM, and Chrysler) should be rather valuable for anybody who?s restoring or looking to restore a Malaise Era car, provided the Du Pont Lucite acrylic lacquer, Centari acrylic enamel, and Dulux alkyd enamel codes can cross-reference to modern paint codes. For example, that AMC Firecracker Red looks to be the same Firecracker Red that I intend to use when it comes time to paint Project HMX. Matt Litwin found the chart in the July-August 1976 issue of Du Pont Refinisher News.

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Source: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/04/11/tawney-jasmine-and-crystal-jade-the-automotive-colors-of-1977/

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