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can anyone help me with the paint code for a '50 Ford gray dash?? Thanks!

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I can't help but isn't there a little silver in it??
I'm going way back with my memory.
Paul in CT

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Your best bet if available is to remove the glove box door and have it matched at an auto paint supplier.

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There isn't enough left to scan. This has been setting for 35 years!

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Most old paint codes are useless now because paint formulas are vastly different. A really good body shop can create a very close match. Painting a dash usually requires removal, anyway to get an acceptable result, making testing any good spots not diminished by age or exposure possible.

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Even the inside of the glove box door, that doesn't see daylight?

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I did mine with "silver argent " looks sharp it's a silver metallic

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Cecil, tcp global would have the paint in the correct color

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Hope this link works, your paint code might be here. Look through all of the pages that come up when you search on a ‘50 Ford.

https://www.autocolorlibrary.com/

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I've heard both good and bad reports on some of TCP Global's paint matches. They are about the only ones that will do it without a part to compare with.

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Thanks for all the advice. I did get the PPG formula from a friend in NY who had redone his dash in the past. He had obtained the formula from the late Cecil Goff, former '49-'51 advisor for the EFV8 Club, sometime in the past.

Note: the dash is out of the car and has been blasted,

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Cecil

Could you post the paint codes I am sure others, including me, would appreciate it.

Seemed to me the their were different dash paint finishes for the Deluxe coupes/sedans and the Custom coupes/sedans. Convertibles were also different.

Tom

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Interior paint color also varied with the exterior color.

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I have the mix formula for Tan and Gray, both in Acrylic Lacquer. That is not what I wanted. My paint shop is looking , this week, to se if they can match a single stage to it and then I will post the results!

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Cecil

Thanks for the reply, wait to hear.

Tom

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What I said I had couldn't be crossed over. Sorry, it was for Acrylic Lacquer, but didn;t show all that was necessary.