Thread: Happy Birthday Don Shilady

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Chevy37 and others,

I stopped in to the Haskins Motor Car Co. today to renew acquaintance with the new No. 1 Painter who replaced the guy who painted my car and to get the formula for the paint. Just for the record the color chips they have number not in the hundreds but in the thousands. They use a "Color Max" software program and the formula for my paint is M8237A. They used Diamont/BASF paint with two coats of clear over the color. As you can see from the pictures it is basically a metallic maroon but seems to look different depending on background light. They called it "Haskins Merlot" but that is a meaningless local name which would not be useful in any color search, just one of many, many color chips in the metallic red/maroon range.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder