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Hello there. I am restoring a 1966 Dodge Coronet 500 convertible back to it's original color of AA-1 Silver Poly. My cars original color has 3 other paint jobs that are laid on top of it, and the original paint that does shine though no longer looks silver. It has a greenish tint to it.

My trouble comes here. The paint shop I decided to go with refuses to use certain paints because they end up looking like hell a few years down the road. They want ONLY to use a 2 stage Sherwin Williams water based paint and none of the cross references show up with this code. Diztler has 32398 as their number, and the Sherwin Williams code of 2400 doesn't work either as it won't cross over into the world of Water Based paints.

I've gotten this info from this link:
http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedis...98&rows=50

Any help would be great. Have any of you guys painted your cars the correct AA-1 color in water based? If so, please help.

Thanks in advance!

I don't have my book with me right now, but if the code is the same for 67 and 66 then I have it. I went through a lot and this is somewhat close. I can get some pics up of the car painted if you'd like. My avatar is the silver, at least I think it's close enough.

It's Spectra Master LM443K

See what that looks like. If you're picky, make sure you spray a test first.

Thanks a lot. I would love for you to post some pics up for me.

Here's where I'm at with it now. Got it stripped and sanded down to nothin.

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There's a lot of nice metal on that car there. I'll post up some pics when I get home. My work computer is too new, or is that my camera is too old?

ws27 Wrote:I don't have my book with me right now, but if the code is the same for 67 and 66 then I have it. I went through a lot and this is somewhat close. I can get some pics up of the car painted if you'd like. My avatar is the silver, at least I think it's close enough.

It's Spectra Master LM443K

See what that looks like. If you're picky, make sure you spray a test first.

The AA-1 silver metallic paint codes are the same for both 66 and 67 Coronets.

Chrysler code is: AAY2A4
Ditzler code is: 32398

Richard

Thanks again, Richard. I'll see if this will suffice for my paint shop. I think we already tried the Ditzler code. [Also, nice Sabbath icon]

Quote:Thanks again, Richard. I'll see if this will suffice for my paint shop. I think we already tried the Ditzler code. [Also, nice Sabbath icon]

You're very welcome and hopefully the shop that's doing the work on your car can use the Chrysler paint code to cross match to whatever brand of paint you end up using. Just remember, it's your car and the shop is working for you, so make sure that they use the exact color that you want to use, not what they want to use because it's easy to get through their paint supplier. He who pays the bills always gets the last word in on those kinds of conversations!

Richard

P.S. Keep watching my avatar, as it will be changing from time to time.

Here are a couple of pics of that silver code I gave you. I do think it's pretty close, but I do not have anything very good to compare.

ws27 Wrote:Here are a couple of pics of that silver code I gave you. I do think it's pretty close, but I do not have anything very good to compare.

Awesome. Looks great. Thanks.