Paint color Question

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edited November -1 in HUDSON
This is one of bills cars. He said he painted it Antique Cream with Imron. I can't seem to find the paint code or what car it was originally on. The paint guys need the code or make and model of the original. If you recognize the color let me know. I know that there was an antique cream on the 78 merc but it looks different on the paint chips.

Here is the tread with the other pics from bill

http://www.classiccar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5314

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  • SuperDave
    SuperDave Senior Contributor
    Cosmo.

    Imron is a Dupont product. Probably one of the first true two part paints. Mix it and shoot it or it dries in the cup or can! It was introduced as a heavy duty fleet paint. When they first came out with it..They did not key colors to manufactures. Nor did they try to match any other paint manufaturers colors. Imron had a color chip book all to It's self. It's been years since I shot this stuff (I'm still alive!)so perhaps they now offer matches to existing autos and trucks? probably not... I bet if you stop by your local Dupont Auto Paint Supplier (Here in Brevard County I use Brevard Auto Paint and Supply in Cocoa Fl) He or she will have an Imron color chip book and I bet you will find the color you are looking for. Good Luck with your PCup.

    Dave W.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Dave, Wasn't this stuff origionally for aircraft? This is the stuff that is incredibly lethal if you don't wear any respiration protection. Good thing you did Dave!
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    My dad painted my Buick Riviera with it in the 80's. We both had proper respirators on. It had an amazing shine. And yes it was made for Aircraft. Can't remember why we wanted to use it. Was not that hard to work with and the finish was great and very chip resistant.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I used to use it on my tow trucks from 1981 to 1995. There's nothing else that could touch it for durability and shine. But...extremely toxic fumes. The other downside was that if a large enough rock hit it, it came off in a big chunk and not a little chip. Good stuff but expensive and difficult to use.
  • SuperDave
    SuperDave Senior Contributor
    I painted Black Imron firewall and hood latch apron on a 49 Super Six 'bout 1975. . It is still glossy as ever. Painted some trucks and a small airplane (Champ). The trucks are junked, but the paint looked good. The champ augered into a cow pasture. Not the fault of the paint. Not pretty. There was a body shop here in town that used it to paint refrigerators. Didn't use the hardener and dried in about 12 hours. Stuff was like hard rubber. The Dupont guy said it wouldn't work. The body shop made a fortune doing refrigerators in every color imaginable. I think the killer ingrediant was Isocyanate or something like that. Im sure my spelling is all wrong. Must have sniffed too much paint..
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Imron is no more dangerous to use than most modern paints. It contains isocyanates like many other brands and types of paint. One of the most common problems with use is "chemically induced asthma". I managed a industrial paint job shop for several years and the insurance carrier required that my employees took a series of different lung tests each year to measure any potential lung damage. I am a real stickler about wearing full face, fresh air supply respirators.

    Bob
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Does anyone have an old Imron chart or know anyone at a paint store I can calll. My local guys act dumb. No luck yet on tracking down the color.
  • rambos_ride
    rambos_ride Senior Contributor
    You guys are all bringing a tear to my eyes with all this talk about Imron



    It was really some neat paint - hard as nails when it dried. I used to work painting trucks for Gordon Fast Frieght and this was all they used at the time.



    Shortly after Sherwin Williams came up with a rival paint system called Sunfire, then PPG came out with my favorite all time paint (except laquer) called Deltron.



    Deltron was also poly-urethane base product but it had characteristics of lacquer in that it dried fast and was easier to work with than Sunfire or Imron. Deltron you could cut and polish to a nice finish but Sunfire and Imron are a bitch to cut and buff!



    Deltron was also more forgiving in that if you got a run or bug in your paint your could literally stop - take a piece of masking tape and "tape it out" and blow some paint or reducer over it and keep on going it would melt right in!



    Of course all good things come to an end and thanks to the EPA's mandate for "water-based" friggin paints "Deltron" has been remade and although still nice to work with it just doesn't "behave" the same and is IMHO much harder to paint with...



    Man am I getting old...
  • EssexAdv
    EssexAdv Expert Adviser, Member
    Maybe you could get Bills paint guy to do a prophet reading on it and send it to your local dealer. There they could mix up the paint and you'd be done. Even if you did find the old paint chip, all they could do is scan it as Imron changed once in it's production life, which made it les durable, and then was discontinued, so the tint formula would be of no value.

    Failing that, there is a chromatic paint book avaliabale at any large paint dealer. Go to the cram section and you will find a lot of creams sorted by chrmatic value. Look through it and find one closest to your recollection of bill's car...Of course this only works if you are doing an all over job
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