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Dash color: yellow; color: #000000;">paint color for 1940 Mercury 09A
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jerandbee |
05-18-2014 @ 7:26 PM
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Does anyone have the DuPont color: yellow; color: #000000;">paint number for the grey-blue dash color: yellow; color: #000000;">paint for a 1940 Merc?
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TomO |
05-19-2014 @ 2:47 PM
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I had to custom mix the color: yellow; color: #000000;">paint for my car. I do not have a cross reference to a modern formula. The Ford number for Seamist Metallic is M-1793. When I mixed the color: yellow; color: #000000;">paint, I did not have a formula, so we just mixed colors until we got a match to the glove box door that had been out of the sun. There was a company called Color-Rite that said they had the dash color in spray cans, but I think that they are out of business.
Tom
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jerandbee |
05-19-2014 @ 9:53 PM
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Gosh Tom, thank you for sure!!!! Big help - I will now have something to search for with a name and Ford number. If I find anything I will post on the Forum Jerry
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jerandbee |
05-19-2014 @ 10:15 PM
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Tom, Your help found the dash color: yellow; color: #000000;">paint - It is available from TCP Global phone 858-909-2110 in quarts or gallons - price is $52 a quart approx. their number is RSP-AE-D acrylic enamel - use the Ford Number of M-1793 Sea Mist Metallic and it comes up. Thank you so much. Jerry
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TomO |
05-20-2014 @ 6:32 AM
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Jerry, ask for a sprayout sample before you buy the color: yellow; color: #000000;">paint. I bought the heater color: yellow; color: #000000;">paint from TCP Global and it was way darker than the heater should be. The heater was a light gray and the TCP color: yellow; color: #000000;">paint was a dark gray. I had to take it to a body shop friend to correct the sample. See if you can just get a pint of the color: yellow; color: #000000;">paint, I used less than a half pint doing the dash and steering wheel twice. The dash got scratched while waiting to be installed and the steering wheel repair had to be done over. Here is a photo of my dash, before installing it in the car.
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jerandbee |
05-20-2014 @ 7:23 PM
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Dash looks great - I will try and get a pint of the color: yellow; color: #000000;">paint or at least a color chip or something from them. I got a quart of lyon blue for touch up and it came right on the money. as time permits - can you send a pic of the little plastic know that goes on the on/off ignition switch - need to fabricate one and can't seem to find out what they should look like. Thanks for all your good advice.
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TomO |
05-21-2014 @ 7:18 AM
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My car is a late car, July 1940 time frame and did not have the plastic knob on the ignition switch. I sold my other car that was earlier, and I don't believe that it had a plastic knob either. Try contacting Dan Kreible, the 39-40 Mercury advisor, to see if he can clarify this point. If he cannot, then you will have to contact the Archives for the engineering drawing of the knob.
Tom
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