Ice Blue Paint Code

[steve burton]

Hi. I am at the stage that my shell is going for paint.
I am looking to paint it in AH ice blue metallic.
I have the ICI paint code 2301m, which I think has gone over to BU2,
which seems a bit dark ?
Any help wound be appreciated,

 

[BobHaskell]

Steve,
BU2 is BMC's code for Ice Blue Metallic. 2301M is ICI's code for the same in their "2K" single layer urethane series. Per Don Pikovinik's Austin-Healey Guide to Historic Colors (Models 100, 100-Six, 3000, Sprite) published in 1999. 25 years later ...

The non-metallic Ice Blue (ICI 2697) is certainly darker than the Ice Blue Metallic per Don's paint samples.

Not much help I'm afraid.

 

[Healey Nut]

Ahhh the old Healey blue colour code again .
You could park a dozen Healey Blue cars side by side and all owners would say they have the correct colour and every car will be a different shade .
Even the cars that came off the line were different due to who made the paint , who painted it , which tone they were short of that day etc etc .
My car is one of the colour codes supplied to me by Autofarm (Healey Restorers )
It a 2012 Toyota metallic blue .