[DeTomaso] Color Code - Paint

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/16/11 6 24 3, lance730 at msn.com writes:


> 
> Trying to match stock body White for 88 GT5S - can anyone tell me, what 
> make paint, or substitute, were these cars painted
> with a clear coat?  Is there a paint code?  I only need to paint a door, 
> and small damage area,  not the whole car.   
> 

Is yours pearl, or just refrigerator white?

Charlie has the first GT5-S which was a factory pearl white, which is 
almost impossible to match.   If you've got the same color, you might wind up 
with the same situation he had.   His car had led a hard life and had been 
spot-repaired here and there; half of it was pearl white but this door, that 
fender etc. were simply refrigerator white with no pearl; it looked weird.

He finally bit the bullet and had the whole car painted; it's beautiful 
now.

If your car doesn't have pearl in it, then you're in luck.   The factory 
used Spies-Hecker paint in the 1980s.   The non-pearl white was called Bianco 
Polo, and the Spies-Hecker paint code is 5200 152.

Mike