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Hi-I'm restoring a 35 Chevy standard and would like to paint the wire wheels the optional Cream Medium color. Anyone have a good modern color match code for the original Cream wire wheel color??
Also I'm wondering what is the correct grey color for the engine. Filling Station's paint I just opened is a very dark grey-much darker than the engine color on the car's engine from a previous restoration. Anyone know if this very dark grey is correct for a 35 Chevy?
Martin Lum
marty@oldercar.com

I believe your paint from the filling sta. is correct. the original color was very dark grey with a bluish tint

Regarding the Cream Medium, you can do a search here on Chevy Chatter II and gain a lot of information from the many previous postings regarding that color.

As mentioned above, the dark blue-gray is the correct color for your engine.

Hi there, I too am restoring a 34 chev std and it took over 2 litres of paint to cover one wheel. So I had the wheels sand blasted and then on to the powder coater and painted a light grey colour. It a waste of time and paint trying to do it yourself.There are so many bits that you miss and have to keep going back to cover them.......
I painted the engine black to match the chassis.

Peter

I have sprayed several sets of wire wheels. I don't understand the problem. What problems did you have?

I'm the one going to paint the Cream 35 standard wire wheels. Since I have a 1935 DuPont color chart with paint codes for the wire wheels I called the DuPont Color Library. Turns out code 350 is still a valid DuPont color with "Cream" in the colorname so I'm having a DuPont vendor mix a small batch of acrylic enamel for a test spray to check out the color . Thanks you all for the advice.
Marty Lum
35 Chevy standard

This is my fathers (35Mike) 35 standard, I am fairly sure that the yellow was supposed to be a bit darker.

Hi-Back to you on the wire wheel color---I sprayed a test panel with the DuPont cream paint and it very closely matches the cream colored paint on the 35 Chevy standard's wire wheels which were painted n the 60s.
The DuPont color code for this paint in acrylic enamel is 530A. i transposed the numbers n my previous post and wrote 350-sorry to confuse. Cream is a fine looking cream yellow color. The striping on 35 standards was also cream so 2 questions have been answered.
Martin Lum
Martin Lum