[Steve_Mack_CT]

Agree, Ford was not building antiques for judging purposes!! Interestingly last night I found my color guide (MARC publication, 1991) which is not the most current but it was interesting. It actually notes the color I really want, Ford Maroon - as a rare, but available special order color (along with a few others) on the Deluxe roadsters only for 1930!!

I cannot imagine the Thorne Brown chip looks like the rendition on Marco's page - it is very, very dark and might work out ok, but I need to see some real examples first.

Going to continue to think on this. My car is solid and fairly straight but still going to be a $7 - 10K or so investment as discussed on another thread here, so it is worth thinkin' on for a while.