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Does anyone know the modern paint code for the brown upper color on a 47 Suburban? I believe it is metallic.
Tim Mabry
The Lost Cause Garage
47 Suburban
57 Sportsman 4dr HT
Tim,
I went to http://www.autocolorlibrary and see that paint code 20301 for Rhythm Brown looks like the upper color you're asking about.
http://www.autocolorlibrary.com/aclchip ... o-pg01.jpg
My advice would be to call your local paint store and give them that number and ask them to call their paint line's color library for a modern equivalent.
I recently was able to do that with 1935 Chevy Regimental Blue thru my local O'Reilly's and the DuPont paint system. That turned out to be the easy part. Buying 6 quarts of single stage enamel plus the components to spray the paint cost well over $1200
It's supposed to be fun!
1949 De Soto Custom Convertible (project)
Thanks for the advice Tim. I went that route and hit a dead end. The Dupont guy was nice and did a visual match off the Ditzler paint chip but that didn't match very well. I ended up using a 1980 Dodge color and it turned out good. Pictures to follow....
Tim Mabry
The Lost Cause Garage
47 Suburban
57 Sportsman 4dr HT
