Spa White Paint

[TRMark]

I need to do some touch up under the hood, leaking master cyl. My TR4 is a 63 CT12972L. I believe it is supposed to be Spa White. Standard did not assign paint numbers until mid 63. I repainted it in the early 70's, but I don't think I used the correct color as the unused tin lid for the surrey seems to be a more of an off white. Anyway, I found a PPG number 8335 but PPG does not show it. Question is, is it really supposed to be Spa White? Where do I get the paint formula?

 

[TR4nut]

Mark-

Do you have a small part you can pull off the car painted in spa white? For what you want to do it might be easier, and more accurate to take a part direct to a paint shop and have them custom match something on the fly. Worked for me with my TR4, only downside has been I still don't have a formula for the color I have.

Randy

 

[Andrew Mace]

8335 does correspond to PPG's formula for Spa White, but that was in the 1960s; I'm sure it has changed. But I'd think that someone at PPG could cross-reference to a current formula? Worst case scenario? The trunk lid is probably easiest to remove and take for a color-matching scan.

 

[TRMark]

I've come up with more numbers, nothing seems to work. I'll take in the original color tin lid a get it scanned. Not sure why I am getting hung up on this as other things in and on the car are certainly not correct. I see some restored TR4's in Spa White for sale on the internet, wonder how they managed it, maybe they had to scan also. I am sure there is a modern car color that is very close, just don't know what it is.

 

[BillyB62]

My TR3 was originally red and when the PO restored it in 2005 he changed it over to BRG. I bought several spray cans of different BRG's that "looked" the same on the web before finally taking my car down to a specialty paint store and have it digitally copied and had a couple of cans made up. It turns out the color the computer determined my car is does not match any "known" colors - hey, I guess I have an original

 

[TRMark]

Took the old lid outside and took a picture with a piece of white paper for contrast.
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The Surrey lid is the original color and has been on the car very rarely, at least since 1969 when I bought the car. It has been stored in a cloth bag hanging on the garage wall. I found some info on Spa White in the archives of Team.Net. Someone posted they had scanned some part of their Spa White car and it came to a 97% match for a late model Dodge Truck color called Stone White. The research continues.