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TR4/4A Touch up paint

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Marla

Marla

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Does anyone have a source for Triumph touch up paint?...I thought my 1964 TR4 was Wedgewood but now I believe it is a Powder Blue...or what we called baby blue...Marla
 

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Hard to tell via a photo viewed on a computer screen, but my eye tells me what I'm seeing is closer to Powder. Seems to me the slightly darker and greyer Wedgwood was literally introduced about a year later (1965) to replace Powder. Of course, unless that's original paint, it's a bit of a gamble to assume what's on there now matches an original formula. Fortunately, you should be able to find a local auto body supply store, body shop (or even some NAPA stores) that could match what's on there via physically scanning the current paint and letting their computer determine the proper formula.
 
Andrew Mace said:
Hard to tell via a photo viewed on a computer screen, but my eye tells me what I'm seeing is closer to Powder. Seems to me the slightly darker and greyer Wedgwood was literally introduced about a year later (1965) to replace Powder. Of course, unless that's original paint, it's a bit of a gamble to assume what's on there now matches an original formula. Fortunately, you should be able to find a local auto body supply store, body shop (or even some NAPA stores) that could match what's on there via physically scanning the current paint and letting their computer determine the proper formula.
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Right...I bought a small bottle of Wedgewood and when I applied it to the dime size area I needed to touch up it was a lot darker,gray almost so I did some photo images of light blue TR's a thought the 1959 color was pretty much spot on...
 
Andrew Mace said:
Of course, unless that's original paint, it's a bit of a gamble to assume what's on there now matches an original formula.
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And if it is original, then it's almost guaranteed that it WONT match! Dry paint changes color over the years, more so if exposed to sunlight but it drifts a little even stored in full darkness.
 
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