Hawaiian Blue Help!

[ky-donzi]

I have started the paint process of my K5. I dropped the hood off yesterday at the paint shop of a test run and under hood paint. The paint was mixed to code 23 from a PPG paint store. I dont think this is correct. it seems to light.

Please help

[RodnRudy]

What color sealer did you use? I'm pretty sure factory used black? That could affect the top coat color.

[ky-donzi]

Color sealer....ahhh ...i don’t know....clear???

I guess you can tell I’m not painting it....they make black sealer?

[wazzabie]

Was this a new or used hood?

[ky-donzi]

New, aftermarket

[ky-donzi]

This is what I though was Hawaiian blue, on a 75 k5. This is what I want. Am I crazy or this a different shade? Btw. I got this pic off the internet

[smupser]

Not sure but I think Hawaiian blue changed with the year. Skyline blue is also very similar

[sick472]

Pictures on the web can be deceiving along with background reflections, but they look real close to me. My dark blue truck can look black at the right angle and light. I can see how the color of the primer could make a little difference in the final shade of blue too...lighter grey primer would make the blue lighter than dark grey/black primer.

Either way, it's a beautiful color.

[Ziegelsteinfaust]

Originally Posted by ky-donzi

Color sealer....ahhh ...i don’t know....clear???

I guess you can tell I’m not painting it....they make black sealer?

I am not big on painting here, but I have done it a couple of times.

Sometimes to make a top coat pop or look more subdued. You change the base coat color. Such as white to black.

So if the factory used grey, red, and or black primer. Each color will bring out slightly different hues of the top coat.

Plus there could be differences between batches, plants, and companies supplying the "same" color.

[Dead Parrot]

Comparing colors where one is outside in the sun and the other is inside under fluorescent/LED lights doesn't work well. Fluorescents are often blue shifted and LEDs can be anything from almost blue to very red.

On my computer screen(there is a whole art to matching computer screen colors to real world colors), I see three different shades of blue in your three pictures.

[ky-donzi]

Maybe it’s closer than I think it is. I have a kinda solution tho. I found a truck that is being restored about 50 miles away. He offered me his take off fender, I’m going to get it in a day or two and compare. His is faded but I swear even faded it looks darker

[LT7A]

If you told me that the hood was off of that Blazer you pulled from the internet, I would believe you. Doesn't look off to me and I am quite color sensitive. Please tell us how it turns out when you get the fender with the original paint. In other news, are you and yours okay with all that's come through weather-wise? Hard to even believe the amount of destruction.

[ky-donzi]

I will post a comparison picture, maybe the difference is just in my head

Thanks for asking, we are fine....I don’t know what national news is posting, but Dawson Spring is 20 miles from us, town of 4000 people, completely leveled. Our lake house is on the outskirts and was undamaged.

Mayfield is about 100 miles away, same destruction

So very sad

[ky-donzi]

Dawson springs, small sample of what the entire town looks like

[LT7A]

Glad to hear you guys are fine. That amount of destruction is is overwhelming to look at, let alone living through it, and many didn't. Horrible. I've seen an aerial photo and it's like that picture times the size of a town.

[ky-donzi]

Well I will be+&$*-:+)’

When I got the fender picked up today, it’s really close to the same color, if not the same color, close enough. I guess it’s either my perception, color of the computer monitor, or me being silly

Anyway, in person the hood and old fender are the same

[Willowrun]

This is original paint Hawaiian blue. Looks the same as what you have there.

[ky-donzi]

Beautiful ride!!!!!

That’s what I’m going for!

[GOPAPA]

Originally Posted by ky-donzi

I have started the paint process of my K5. I dropped the hood off yesterday at the paint shop of a test run and under hood paint. The paint was mixed to code 23 from a PPG paint store. I dont think this is correct. it seems to light.

Please help

This is the blue that my 71 is that I used to own and sold.. it is a bit darker like you want and it is factory color (510 Med Blue)

[ky-donzi]

Ok, do you know for a fact that 510 is darker? I may go get a small bit mixed if that is the case

[GOPAPA]

One photo of my 71 in the sun light and one in the garage ,,about the only way I can tell ..the paint job was around 20 years old with these photos and like i stated the paint is factory coded

[LT7A]

GOPAPA, Glad to have you in Squareland, but I really like your 71. Too bad it had to go. I would have struggled to turn loose of that one.

[hatzie]

I had a 1977 VW Rabbit in L51C Miami Blue. Looks like nearly the same color.

Originally Posted by ky-donzi

Dawson springs, small sample of what the entire town looks like

Looks like Joplin MS after that EF5 in 2011. T & P.