Anybody know what Ford called this color?

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  1. silver70

    silver70 Eric

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    Ha! I just PM'd you when I saw your car pic in another thread and asked you about the color.
     
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    silver70 Eric

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    Wow. I can see my reflection in that paint job through my monitor! Beautiful! Now I'm getting a better idea of what the color might be.
     
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    Dave B I like Mavericks!

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    silver70 Eric

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    I've decided I'm gonna go with something close to the dark greens I've been seeing here. Not going to copy anyone's color, but, wanna get close to them. Just a starting point. Talked to a dude at work who said the kind of non-metallic paint I'm talking about is called acrylic-enamel. Said I can just shoot on a coat with hardener and it shines pretty well. I think I might go over it with clear, anyways.
     
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    In 1972 my mom bought a new Maverick one of Maverick she looked at was that color the salesman called it forest green but for all I know he was just preading the bs. Hope this helps. itore
     
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    Dave B I like Mavericks!

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    But, if you read the title of the thread, he wants to know what "Ford" called it...they didn't call it anything "poly" it seems pretty simple...find a sales brochure that calls the color anything with "poly" on the end? :hmmm:
    Here is picture from the 1974 Ford trim book, it shows the colors you can order, not on any page does it say "poly" after the name of the color....
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    Who knows what "Poly" is, it's not metallic some Poly colors don't have metallic...
     
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    Acornridgeman MCCI Wisconsin State Rep Moderator Supporting Member

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    Dave is right about Ford not using the poly name in their paint color advertising. But he is wrong about it being short for Polyurethane.
    I did a little digging into the matter and POLY was a trade name used by Ditzler which is now PPG. I just commonly use the poly word cause I'm an old Ditzler guy (though some say I'm just a ditz .... :)) and I often use Ditzler color charts. So I guess you can say I speak Poly when it comes to metallics ............ ;)

    You all might find this very interesting - I know I did!

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    Here is a segment from THE SCIENCE OF PAINT by author Mark Clark - Contributing Editor to Body Shop Business 1998

    A Fake Flake

    Pigments are added to paint to provide hiding and to create a color. For example, blue pigments and red pigments added to paint resin will make a purple color. To make an even more interesting color, "effect pigments" are added to paint.
    The original effect pigments were aluminum particles left over from another process, like roof coatings. And in the late 1930s, several manufacturers of expensive autos mixed these aluminum flakes with their solid colors to create a finish with an attractive sparkle and an interesting color effect.
    But these early metallic finishes didn’t have much twinkle because the aluminum particles weren’t very big nor were they a uniform size. The flakes were actually dredges, or by-products, of some other process involving aluminum.

    A Flake Is Born

    In the 1950s, Alcoa developed an aluminum flake for use in automotive paints. These flakes were brighter, larger and more similar in size to each other than the previous offerings. And these flashy new metallic finishes were just the ticket for the aspiring consumer of the 1950s.

    Stylists at Ditzler (now PPG) coined the term "poly-chromatic" to describe the color effect. And while some paint brands described their offering as "metallic," Ditzler called its "poly" for short. Although poly is a marketing term and not a scientific description, Ditzler was trying to describe a color that had "many facets."

    In fact, a color with reflectants in it has three distinct facets: the face, which is how the color looks head on; the flop, which is how the color looks from the side; and the flash, which is the reflectant throwing the light off to your eye as you pass between the face and the flop. Matching these special effect colors was, and is, difficult because the reflectants look different depending how they’re aligned within the paint film.
    Flake offerings at this time were mostly made by the same supplier, and no matter which paint brand they appeared in, they were smoother than earlier offerings and available in two or three different sizes.
     
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    OK, I'll buy you a beer!
    So now we know what "Poly" is...:bowdown: I was wrong, and I'll admit it.
     
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    silver70 Eric

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    Ask a question about a paint color, receive an education about the history behind it. This is great!
     
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    What else do we have to do in wintertime ............. :biglaugh:

    BTW - getting back to your original question in post #1, is there are color that you need the year and code for?
     
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    silver70 Eric

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    No, not really. I have an emerald green-metallic paint job on the Mav now. Nothing in the world wrong with it. It's only a few years old. However, I was muddling around the idea of painting it charcoal gray, but, didn't think it would look too good with the black vinyl top I want to install. I'm going to black out the grill and tail panel, as well (whether to leave the headlight/taillight bezels chrome, or, not is a whole other issue). I concluded that everything would look too mono-chromatic if I went with charcoal gray.

    After I had been tooling around on the net for a while I came across this color and really liked how it worked with the chrome on the car, as well as the vinyl top. It reminded me of the pastel-like colors of the '60's muscle cars. I want to go with acrylic-enamel instead of metallic/ POLY :D because the only "pop" I want the car to have is from the chrome bumpers and wheels, and the gloss of the vinyl top. Color and texture are going to receive some extra attention this time around in my build.

    Thanks everyone for your input and time. I know it takes some effort to dig up all this material and post it. The education, alone, was worth the thread. "The more you know, the less you need."- Cody Lundin

    Eric
     
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