I thought I had lost it. So I'm putting it here. I thought I kept all the html pages I had posted way back then and turns out I'm glad I did.

I also found the list of 553 VIN numbers for the 69s. The Oldsgmail.com site dropped out of sight and I thought I had the information in one spot but turned out I didn't, and thought the stuff was lost forever. But here it is.

At the time (about 30 years ago, thereabouts when I posted it) I suggested getting a quart, but I've heard a properly thinned pint will do the job. You be the judge. I cannot confirm/deny the availability of ingredients still should you use it. A professional painter that actually had a new, unused hood scoop from Demmer painted it out on test cards and suggested using half the green amounts to more closely match what was on his scoop. I forgot what I did with those test cards. It's been a long minute. Keep in mind, these are "cumulative" weights for paint shops. They'll know what to do. It's directly what I got from Demmer/Dupont. I'm assuming it's mL since 457.5 mL is only a hair short of a pint (473 mL).




Here it is in Text Form:

69 Hurst/Olds Gold Paint

The formula given is for one pint (DuPont says it's enough to do one car's stripes when thinned, but I'd personally go with a quart) of the more expensive ChromaPremier. I recommend test spraying the mix first to make sure that its what you want. Take this to your DuPont jobber. It MAY be under the name of "69 Hurst/Olds Gold". It wasn't in the computer systems last I checked. If you need a quart, double the amounts shown.

Cost code from DuPont: (important) F

4530S Flop Control Agent 45.4

890J Transox Yellow 86.0

894J Extra Coarse Alum 109.3

845J Transp Yellow 131.0

895J Bright Coarse Alum 149.9

802J LS White 161.1

832J Green 162.0

1005S Gold Pearl 180.7

1008S Moss Green Pearl 181.0

62320F Binder 326.3

62330F Balancer 457.5

Additionally, I've also got it in the BASF paint code as well. If anyone needs it.

 

I'm no paint & body man, but someday some H/O owner owes you a case of beer.

My '66 Starfire was delivered from factory in Autumn Bronze. When I repainted it in the 90's I gave the painter the Rinshead-Mason, Dupont and other formulations as cited in the '66 Chassis Service Manual. The shop found the paint, or at least what I think is right and did a fantastic job. Almost 30 years later, the repaint color catches the attention of car people. I joke and call it "Rust Metallic" or burnt orange, but it's a really neat color.

I learned later Chevy reused the formulation as "Aztec Bronze" in ~1969 or so. There's a '66 Toro local to me here in NorCal that is also Autumn Bronze, but even my color-blind eyes can see the shades are different. I don't care much about correctness for myself, because both cars are beautiful, but its interesting to see how when the formulation information gets lost people interpret the historic color different ways.

Without your post here, even getting close on the correct color would lost to history. Well done.

Chris

 

Mike;

Should have asked me, been sitting on my web page for years

 

Well, that's true too. Thanks for archiving it. But I found the original html file that I thought I had lost and was happy about that. Glad someone else had it I guess.

 

Maybe this ought to be a sticky in case someone is looking for it?

 

Glad you ran across it again, it's been passed around a bit!