<VV> Re: [FC] Trying to ID Otiginal Greenbrier Paint Colors & Codes

[J R Read_HML]

SFAIK...  MOST FCs had a white stripe.  White ones had a red stripe.  You 
are likely looking at a very faded red.

However - a special order vehicle could have been almost anything.  Say a 
utility or construction firm wanted a fleet painted in their colors.... 
doable many times.

Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Mikeamauro at aol.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 9:59 PM
Subject: [FC] Trying to ID Otiginal Greenbrier Paint Colors & Codes


> I'm restoring the wife's 64 Greenbrier Deluxe van. The exterior is not 
> the
> factory paint, but I suspect it is close to what was original;  I base 
> this
> assumption upon the color of the original upholstery  and interior paint. 
> It
> appears the exterior stripe around the middle was not  originally a bright 
> red,
> but rather an "orangish" red (the rest of the exterior  is white). Was 
> there
> such an exterior stripe color? A refinish paint  chart, out of a 1961-1964
> Chevrolet Service News bulletin, shows a Corvair 95  exterior refinish 
> paint: "516
> Orange (DuPont # 31-L, Rinshed-Mason #A-1597 (both  Lacquers), or a 
> Ditzler
> enamel #DQE-60156)."  Could this be the almost red,  but sorta' orange 
> exterior
> stripe color I'm looking for?
>
> See interior & exterior photos at"
> http://rides.webshots.com/album/49614270kzfFvn?start=0
>
> I'd also like to ID the exterior white and the interior colors. I'm 
> trying
> to make this a technically correct restoration; any help offered  would be 
> much
> appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Mike Mauro
> of several Corvairs and other bad habits
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