[DeTomaso] 1972 Red Paint codes

[bill gaino]

The oranger red is a spitting image of Audi G6 Mars red. I could not get my paint supplier to mix the original color in urethane, so they just matched it. Bill 1362 

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-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Drew via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
>Sent: Sep 27, 2016 9:38 PM
>To: edducati at mac.com, DeTomaso at server.detomasolist.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] 1972 Red Paint codes
>
>   In a message dated 9/27/16 10 35 50, edducati at mac.com writes:
>
>     I know this may be an old subject and one that has probably been
>     answered before.
>     What is the 1972 Pantera Red paint code and the cross reference to a
>     modern paint like Ditzler Deltron, Glasurit, etc.
>     From what I understand there were two reds? a darker red and orange
>     red?
>
>   >>>Ed,
>   There were three reds according to the Ford parts book, although one of
>   them is the burgundy used on the '73-74 USA-model GTS, which doesn't
>   really count.
>   The 1971 cars were painted differently from the 1972 and later cars.  I
>   think the 1971 red was a purer, more Italian red, while the '72-74 red
>   had more of a tomato flavor to it.
>   All the paint codes in the attached file are, as far as I know,
>   completely obsolete, at least in the USA.  I think Roger Brotton in the
>   UK has had luck getting matches made there?  So maybe you have a
>   fighting chance in New Zealand....
>   Mike