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Alecwhankins · 05-13-2023, 02:48 PM

I am restoring a 1948 Mercury woodie and I am trying to identify the brown color used to paint the brackets + interior sheet metal. In a book called Famous Ford Woodies, it was identified simply as “Bracket Brown” but I cannot find a paint code or any additional information on it. Do you know what the paint code is? What color are you all using?

petehoovie · 05-13-2023, 03:24 PM

Found this > https://paintref.com/paintref/model/brown_Mercury.shtml

woodiewagon46 · 05-13-2023, 04:46 PM

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Alec, the codes for the special Woodie colors are listed in the V-8 1941-1948 Book on page E-6. Back in 2010 I had a pint of Centari enamel mixed using those paint codes and it's spot on. The Centari paint code is YS249. I know Centari is no longer available, but a good paint shop should be able to use the number for your mix. In the V-8 Club the color is called Woodie Brown/Woodie 1K, whatever that means.

05-13-2023, 02:48 PM	#1
Alecwhankins Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Oceanside Posts: 19	Paint code for “Bracket Brown”? 1948 Mercury Woodie I am restoring a 1948 Mercury woodie and I am trying to identify the brown color used to paint the brackets + interior sheet metal. In a book called Famous Ford Woodies, it was identified simply as “Bracket Brown” but I cannot find a paint code or any additional information on it. Do you know what the paint code is? What color are you all using?

05-13-2023, 03:24 PM	#2
petehoovie Senior Member Join Date: May 2015 Posts: 8,418	Re: Paint code for “Bracket Brown”? 1948 Mercury Woodie Found this > https://paintref.com/paintref/model/brown_Mercury.shtml __________________ The only thing nice about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.... *"Silver rings, your butt! Them's washers!"* "We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!" - from 'The Wild Bunch' - 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NReUd2_0u0 Last edited by petehoovie; 05-13-2023 at 03:57 PM.

05-13-2023, 04:46 PM	#3
woodiewagon46 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Long Island,NY Posts: 1,562	Re: Paint code for “Bracket Brown”? 1948 Mercury Woodie Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) Alec, the codes for the special Woodie colors are listed in the V-8 1941-1948 Book on page E-6. Back in 2010 I had a pint of Centari enamel mixed using those paint codes and it's spot on. The Centari paint code is YS249. I know Centari is no longer available, but a good paint shop should be able to use the number for your mix. In the V-8 Club the color is called Woodie Brown/Woodie 1K, whatever that means.