TVR white.........................

[JMF894]

Hi guys i'm wanting to get some paint mixed up for some winter projects and i was wondering if anyone new the official name for the white that my 450 has? It's a 1989 model year. I know i could get the paint code from the chassis number but wondered if anyone new it's actual name e.g Ford Arctic White or Ford Glacier White etc...?

Also i have to bare in mind that any new paint will show up against the 22yr old original.

I mainly want it to spray the front lower spoiler around the driving lamps and in the engine bay.

Hopefully parts that will not show up too obviously as being a different colour due to their location on the car...............

Cheers Jimbo

[Englishman]

Jim, Just checked in the garage and I still have the touch-up paint from 20 years ago. Solid, but it is called Arctic White, codes on the can are P420, KV54. Not sure if TVR's Arctic White would have been the same as Ford's.

[Lean Machine]

Hi Jimbo
I had a 1989 wedge a few years ago that I had partly sprayed professionally on the front end and the wings. The sprayer guy told me that these cars no longer use cellulose paint but instead a water based colour with a clear lacquer top coat. What I'm trying to say is be careful what you spray it with as it may cause a reaction with the old paint. Having said all that a sprayer would chemically match your old paint and then spray as he did with mine. Believe me I just could not tell the difference between the old and the new. It was absolutely superb.

[JMF894]

Thanks guys. David, is the paint a specific TVR colour rather than Ford/Rover etc etc?

If you have a touch up then i'd be interested so let me know how many beer tokens.

I believe the bonnet was painted a few years ago. There is a paint line i discovered whilst replacing all the pinstriping. Colour wise it matches the rest of the car fine however.

Cheers Jimbo

[convert]

The best match for mine is 'fridge white'.

Yup, the stuff they paint fridges with....



White is such a cool colour

[KelWedge]

Hi Jim

A good paint place will be able to match it and find out the colour for you, Best to use someplace who knows how to paint Fibre Glass, But that not a problem about here When I had mine looked at, What I thought the paint was called, I was wrong, and the man named the colour by looking at it, and then he proved it in his colour lists.

Kelvin