Re: IML: mystery paint color, please help if you can

["Bill Watson" <wwatson5@xxxxxxxxx>]

What's the paint code on the data tag?  It should also be on the build
record / info you received from Chrysler Historical.

There is a possibility the colour you are looking at is not the colour the
car was painted at the factory.  One does not always know what previous
owner(s) have done to a car over the previous forty-plus years.

Bill
Vancouver, BC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Marty
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Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:11 AM
Subject: IML: mystery paint color, please help if you can


Hi All,
        Here is my dilemma, I had always thought my car color for my 59
Imperial was "copper spice". The person I bought it from (second owner)
thought that was the color name. After looking at color samples of copper
spice I wonderer why it did not look like the color of my car. Copper spice
had an orangey brown color to it, when my car looks like a shiny penny.
After receiving my factory specs letter from Chrysler historical foundation,
I found that the color was "Fiesta copper" which I thought explained the
mystery, but now I find no such color is to be found (no listing from 1959
to 1963). Was this a special order color that were so few that it never got
documented? Can anyone shed any light on this? I do believe that the car was
custom ordered by an Imperial salesman that worked at a dealer in
Philadelphia (first owner). Please, if anyone could help, my only recourse
is to get the inside truck lid scanned by a paint shop, but I would prefer
the original paint #. Thanks to the few that replied the last time I posted
this. Painting will start as soon as I can get the correct color.

Marty Trendler
Red Bluff, Ca.
1959 Imperial LaBaron 4 Door Sedan



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