Paint color for sport sedan

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I am interested in taking a pole regarding the color we should paint our 1931 Sport sedan. I know paint color is a personal thing but I want to get it right. My wife usually picks the colors I paint cars.

People I talk to tell me to get it right. Of the six sport sedans, two are maroon, one is Brewster green, one is blue and one is silver I believe. Considering a dark blue or dark Brewster green. Are there any opinions out there?

Thanks for your opinions.

Cal

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Hi Calvin,

If it is any help, I have digital copies of the Dealer Data books for 1931. They list all of the standard color combinations (below). Sorry, no color chips. They are huge files and I would have to get them to you by file transfer. Let me know if you would like them.  Pierce-Arrow would paint cars to the customer’s desires as long as their Art and Color folks approved it, so pretty much anything is OK. I would expect that most of the LeBaron bodies were custom colors.

As far as to your question, my opinion is a very Dark Blue.

You might check this website, I know they list Pierce-Arrow colors from the era.

https://www.autocolorlibrary.com/

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Here is another website that actually has color chips, although I am not sure how much they are worth with screen color variations, but it gives an idea. This is the Pierce-Arrow page.

https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplaym.cgi?manuf=Pierce-Arrow&rows=50

A second thought on my opinion, as you mentioned, whatever your wife likes.

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