1953 r110 Country door green matching!


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Post Mon Jul 03, 2017 1:55 pm

1953 r110 Country door green matching!

Was wondering if anyone has tried to or found a matching paint for the original country door green? I have a hood thats in black primer i kinda want to paint green like rest of truck.
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Post Mon Jul 03, 2017 3:27 pm

Re: 1953 r110 Country door green matching!

The colour is called Adirondack Green.
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Post Mon Jul 03, 2017 4:13 pm

Re: 1953 r110 Country door green matching!

Nice! Is it still available anywhere would you know?
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Post Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:15 pm

Re: 1953 r110 Country door green matching!

That shade was what Pappy and Granddad called #10 Dark Green. The name changed a few times, but #10 Dark Green got you the properly mixed color at the paint shop.
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Post Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:20 pm

Re: 1953 r110 Country door green matching!

Try Googling for the colour. Some of the automotive paint suppliers may have the formula. In the USA you could try tractor supply and in Canada try Princess Auto for some agriculture colours.
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Post Tue Jul 04, 2017 9:25 am

Re: 1953 r110 Country door green matching!

Ok. Ill give that a try. I gave the auto body paint supply the ppg 40432 paint code and they said its too old.

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Post Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:20 pm

Re: 1953 r110 Country door green matching!

These guys are very good. They'll mix whatever type paint you want (unless you live in California) and ship it to you.
http://www.autocolorlibrary.com/aclchip ... l-pg01.jpg

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Post Wed Jul 05, 2017 1:38 am

Re: 1953 r110 Country door green matching!

In 1949 as the L series was coming out, IH started naming there paint colours by adding a specific name for each colour. Appears before that each paint code was just a number & colour. #4 is Door County Green was an optional colour, #10 is Adirondack Green was a std colour. By 1954 Door County Green was dropped image it was too flashy for the time period. The picture that the link goes to belongs to George Kirkham of Lethbridge Ab, there family has been selling IH trucks for long time. He has likely 100 plus restore IH vehicles. I been to his IH dealership & his private shop where they are sitting. Its an amazing place of IH history. The truck use to belong to friend of my name Ron, he sold to George couple yrs ago. The other link is to paint codes. Wish I knew how to add pictures without links as photobucket is :t0174: .

http://georgestoys.oldinternationaltruc ... eb04ba.jpg
http://colorcharts.oldinternationaltruc ... 42b91f.jpg
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Post Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:38 am

Re: 1953 r110 Country door green matching!

Right on! Interesting info for sure. Thanks turbo. Ill check out the paint charts. Cheers.

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Post Wed Jul 05, 2017 10:23 am

Re: 1953 r110 Country door green matching!

I like that color! I do not know if the archives at Wisconsin would have the color code in a paint committee decision, but worth a look maybe. If there is a part that is removable and has original color (not faded) perhaps a paint shop could spectral analyze it to come up with a match. If a person could get an original paint chip chart for them to analyze?

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