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zagatoman · Joined: 31 Aug 2010 Posts: 55 Location: Sutton, Surrey

Hi

Wonder if you might be able to help.

Just got myself a 1964 Victor FB VX490 and was wondering about the colour. The code on the plate is 562A but I can find no reference to the paint code for the paint factor.

Please see photograph of my car. looks a bit blue in the pic. but is a bit greyer in life.

Any help you could provide with colour name and paint code would be greatly appreciated.

Paul Wood

Inglewood · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:42 pm Post subject:

Try

http://color-online.glasurit.com/

Richard H · Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 2148 Location: Lincolnshire, UK

Not sure of the name/code, but the best thing to do is take a sample of paint to a paint factor with a spectrometer, and have some mixed to order, it's not that expensive. My dad recently took the filler cap off his FB (Limestone White) and took it round to a local paint factor who mixed up a litre the very same day. This is the company we use:

C.A.R.S. Ltd.

Unit 5, Thames Estuary Industrial Estate,
Canvey Island
Essex
SS8 0PB

01268 510136

If you're in the South East, they also have branches at Dagenham and Edmonton.

Churchill Johnson · Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 359 Location: Rayleigh Essex

Looking through my ICI. paint charts it may be strata blue which is a grey-blue the paint codes on any car plate is only relevant to the manufactures but as soon as they are out of date unless someone has kept a list information is lost i have looked at my w/shp manuals [genuine] but they do not list paint or trim codes to a certain colour as has been stated your best bet is to get paint colour matched as any paint will fade and even the correct colour may stand out. Must say i have a soft spot for the FB VX 4/90 and can remember the smell of real leather seats and wooden dash the vauxhall engines were the biggest let down as they got tired at about 50k.