Before you go off getting paint, let's establish what the color actually is, assuming that the car was not re-painted by a prior owner.
On your firewall, there are two metal plates (a little below the windshield area). The larger one is the Body Information Tag. It has lots of headers and some numbers. What is the number underneath the header PAINT? This will tall you what the car was originally painted. You can look up a "translation" in KFOCI HANDBOOK on the CD that is part of your new member information packet; if you don't have it already, you should get it soon.
Also, be aware that none of the mixing formulas are any good on the old charts and the chip samples can weather and change shade to one degree or another over time. PPG Automotive Finishes and ICL Automotive Paints (the new names for the old Ditzler and Rinshed-Mason outfits) should still do a color matching service for their jobbers. The Jobber needs the original paint code number off the Body information Tag as well as the paint name. They send the info to the Color Library department of the company and they run the chip through an computer spectrograph that rolls out a mixing formula using currently available colors. This information is considered confidential and is provided free to the jobber as part of sales support so it will NOT be given to you to take somewhere else, so don't be offended if the jobber won't give it to you...he or she is not supposed to.
Err...I think you misunderstand...
I know the paint color on this car is not original...the original color (or rather the faded version of it) still exists under the trunk mat. and was likely Horizon Blue...I haven't had the chance yet to get the firewall codes.
This car was restored by a previous Club member, Dwayne Sell (club member from MI) , as part of his collection sometime in the early 2000's...it's apparently in a quarterly from an Auburn, IN meet about '04 or so...Larry is sending me a copy of that quarterly...so it was repainted in ceramic green in that restoration...
Per info from my conversations with Larry, Dwayne had at least one Frazer and two Kaisers, my Deluxe being one of those Kaisers.
My question was more about where the 'Pine Tint Green" designation of the color came from, since both Larry and Jim quickly identified it (as it's currently painted) as that color, from pics and video I'd posted, given all the paint chips from the various paint companies all show it as 'Ceramic Green'.
This is more of a historical question, really...where did the 'Pine Tint Green' interpolation of 'Ceramic Green' come from?
