Red oxide primer

[DC-DD]

Hey Dominic, we've been using a brand for a couple years by a company called SPI out of Georgia. Their paints are super to use and a lot nicer than the old PPG. They have a red oxide but out of the can it's too red in my opinion but they also have white gray and black so it's easy to tint what you're looking for. It's available in quarts and gallons so you don't have to buy a ton and it's about half the cost of what PPG used to be. Gloss level is also perfect.

This is for 65 Shelby but should be the same.

Variations, color wise are less and in 65 you have the very dark gray (some refer to it as black) period so it will depend on when the car was likely built. All explained in that article I shared on this site and CMF.  For firewall forward you would have a version of red oxide with either floor color since it was applied by hand in a separate station after the floor was done by the jets  If you want to email or PM we can compare the cars VIN or time period to other documented cars and determine what the original color is unless you have done that already.


Earlier thread on the related subject

https://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=2207.msg18911#msg18911


And to the article mentioned in that thread

https://www.docdroid.net/ZJzg67n/65-san-jose-underopen-2019v8-pdf


And an example of the intersection/overlap of the front frame application over the floor color in the late 65 San Jose example

Thanks  Jeff and Tim for all your help

Dominic

[shelbydoug]

That is about what I am seeing and that is a pretty difficult task to reproduce with any accuracy.

I am thinking of one car in particular that was represented as completely original and the underside was just consistently one color. It is just confusing me if that is true.

The seemingly haphazard blending is what I expect to see as original.

[Brant]

Dominic,

I would recommend matching and using an actual topcoat paint color as opposed to using a primer.

As mentioned in the thread, colors will vary as to when the car was produced.

You will also find a different shade between the floors and under the front frame rails.

Here are some pictures of 6S033 restored with the matched colors and overspray as originally found on the car.