> with a paint code. My intent is to bring the frame into the store and
have
> the paint matched. I'll buy a can and try an airbrush touch-up.
Dave.. hope this does work. But a paint store told me that the scanner thingy these places have is designed to scan what bikes don't have a lot of: square FLAT surfaces. I volunteered at a street car museum and painted a lot of the trolleys and we always used auto enamel (Dupont Dulux) and it was easy to get matches. We found the original colours used were often... auto colours in the first place!! Somehow I bet bike paint was the same.
I am having a 1948 Clubman painted in England and have specifically asked for the painter to include a square piece of metal or plastic painted with the colour (Polychromatic Olive) so I can have this matched with a US market car paint so we'll at least have one colour matched.
P.C. Kohler
Washington, D.C.