Re: What is the proper color terminolgy for this 1940 dark green paint?
The Ditzler paint chart for 1940 Ford and Mercury vehicles shows two greens: Acadia Green M3903 and Yosemite Green M1800. It also shows a sort of gray green color Cloudmist Gray M1787 which is more gray than green. The Yosemite Green is very dark, almost black.
Attached are photos of the cab of my tonner shortly after it came back from the paint shop. The paint store mixed the color to match the paint on the inside of the door access panel which was as it left the factory. The color turned out to be a very close match to the Acadia Green chip color so that's what I'm calling the paint color on the truck.
Its hard to tell from your photos, but if that green on your friends car is a dark green I'd say it was Yosemite Green. Let us know who won the bet.
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