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I need to do some touch up on my 1969 Riverside Gold (paint #980) the only year it was used. Does anyone know if it is available or have the formula to have it made? I could really use it in a spray can - is it possible to buy it in a spray can?
There's somebody up north that advertises in Hemmings, and I think maybe in the driveline in the past that has available Corvette (and other old car) colors in acrylic lacquer in bulk, packaged in spray cans, and touch up bottles with the little brushes. The name Tower pops up on me, but I'm not sure that's correct. If somebody else doesn't offer it up I'll try and find it on some of my old stuff. I bought some Fathom Green for my '67 coupe several years ago from them in a touchup bottle.
Be warned though that Riverside Gold (I have 2 '69 Riverside Gold Corvettes, both of which I painted myself in laquer in the 80's, and both of which Top Flighted) is one of the hardest colors to touch up or blend. I was told by an old restorer who's run a Corvette specialty shop for about 35 years that Warbonett Yellow (actually a gold color also) is the absolute hardest to work with and Riverside is a close second.
I think that you will be better off taking the car to your local paint jobber and let him scan the color. That is the closest match that you will buy. It will be up to the painter to tint the paint, if needed, to match your car. There is no buying paint today that is a perfect match to the older colors. Everything by the book is offset colors. All the pigments used to blend the paints of the earlier cars are no longer available.
Dick, I guess I was assuming he wanted Laquer, since he was talking touch up and spray cans. I don't think there's a paint jobber around anywhere that can help with that these days.
Did anybody look at what I recommended ? Lacquer is still available from the Auto Color Library in California. http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorlibrary Check it out. It's for all to see. ps I know California was the first state to start the phase out of Lacquer.....but you can still order it from Auto Color.
George, the colors that are available are off set colors, close maybe, but not close enough for spot painting. As I said before the pigmentsand metallic flake that were used in 1969 are ALL gone. I see quite a few cars in a years time and you can tell who had the original color scanned and who just bought what they tell you that is the correct color. Some of the off set colors are so far off that you cannot really tell what color it was supposed to be. Bill Williamson, who has painted for a living for many years, made a good prior post.
Lacquer is still available from some jobbers. I just bought 1 1/2 gallons of Milano Maroon.
It is possible to spot/blend with acrylic but I think that it would be pretty obvious on the RG color. Like Bill said, the paint didn't match when new. The very least that you have to do is panel paint to get a decent job.
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