Some time ago, someone posted a paint color number used on later model Mercedes Benz that was a close match for the dark blue used on the 1911 touring. I have done the key word search but haven't come up with the correct "dark blue" color number. Anyone remember the color code number?
Here?
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/80257/103025.html
When I had a 13 touring, back in the 1980's, the closest dark blue that I found was one used on Kenworth tractors back in that decade.
Hi Tom,
This question has come up a few times in the last year or so and two of the threads are http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/80257/103025.html?1251295745 from last fall and http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/118802/125711.html?1267481067 from this spring.
As for my car, I went to the local NAPA with the information about the 1985 Mercedes Benz Dark Blue code of DB 904 and the DuPont color code of W 8766. They couldn't match the DuPont code but the Mercedes code did match their formulas. Their(NAPA) mixing code was 21051 and their system called the color "MIDNIGHT BLUE" . . . . and no I never asked them for that color of paint. The paint was mixed as a single stage enamel and was used for some repaint and touch-ups on a car that was painted 10-15? years ago . I did some testing and it was a perfect match to what was on the car. The car has the black look in low light and dark blue in bright light. . . . the classic Midnight Blue characteristics. The color codes I listed have NO metallic particles in it. . . it is a pure color. Napa can also mixed this color in all the different types of paint bases. In fact, I had the paint that I used on the wood, mixed in an alkalid base and the other paint mixed in a standard base and both paints matched fine. There are many ideas/opinions on what to paint the T's of this era and the truth be told. . .there is not just one paint code, but several that will give you the "correct" look to your car. I encourage you to test whatever paint you chose to see if it gives you the results you want before you spend a lot of $$$ and end up with a color you're not satisfied with.
Good Luck!
Maybe part of the colour effect black indoors/blue out in the sun was achieved by first painting the bodies black, then the last layers blue?
From a list of colors used at the Ford factory december 2, 1913: http://www.mtfca.com/encyclo/1913H.htm
F-111 First coat red baking metal body primer for body
F-112 Second black glaze putty for body
F-113 Second coat blue ground for body
F-115 Third and fourth coat body spraying blue varnish for body
Midnight Blue has about 15 variations available to it ( from a light to a very dark ), check on color chart via web under Midnight Blue, keep adding black until the blue is almost gone and you should be very close, again, if you work in with your paint mixer, you'll be able to do small paint cards until you come up with the color you are after/happy with.
hope this helps David
There was a huge post on this within the last 6 months by Keith Townsend.
Here is some original "Midnight Blue" from an original, untouched part of a 1912...Dave C.
David-
Is this your car or someone else's?
-Keith
Sadly no. It is an imported car from the US being put together as a restoration project in Victoria. Dave C.