11 replies to this topic

[Tremelune]

I have a Japanese Mini in California with metallic green paint...I'm trying to repaint the dash to match the body, and I'm hard pressed to find a color that will match perfectly. There are so many variations of green throughout Mini history that I can't do it by eyeballing it either...Documentation for this car has long since disappeared.

 

Is there a way I can find a paint code somewhere and have some touch-up paint made? Preferably in an aerosol can, but I can get fastidious with a pen...

 

 

[Bobbins]

The chassis plate with the paint code should be rivetted to the boot floor ….

[Midas Mk1]

Go to a  local paintshop and get a panel scanned, that's the only way for a close enough match. From experience trying to match metallic base and an arrange of solid oranges,

 

Going off a vin tag is pointing a finger in the wind, the cars undoubtelty by now had paint, and decades of UV decay.  

[Tremelune]

Aha! I found a VIN plate on the right side of the engine bay...It says:

Paint: RWV

Trim: PMA

Edited by Tremelune, 24 February 2024 - 10:28 PM.

[Tremelune]

According to this site, it's straight-up British Racing Green (HNA) with a White Diamond roof. If I can hvae paint made up, I'm gonna give it a whirl—the interior is unlikely to have been painted or faded much, and that's all that really needs to match.

Edited by Tremelune, 25 February 2024 - 01:53 AM.

[Midas Mk1]

According to this site, it's straight-up British Racing Green with a White Diamond roof. If I can hvae paint made up, I'm gonna give it a whirl—the interior is unlikely to have been painted or faded much, and that's all that really needs to match.

Issue is if you match to interior, it won’t match the exterior which has had uv exposure

[Tremelune]

I'm not worried about it.

 

Is there a place that sells Mini paint in aerosol form...? Chipex seems to want to sell me a £50 kit with brushes...I wonder if there might be shipping concerns with the US...

[Tremelune]

HNA is British Racing Green Metallic from 1991 (aka BLVC617), but it looks like I'll need to find aerosol stateside. I go in search! Thanks all

[Bobbins]

Chipex is for repairing chip and scratch damage, probably not what you want. A search locally to you, even using ebay, should find a supplier who can supply paint to the original code, it’s a good starting point. It’s a two can system, colour coat plus a clear top coat.
Being California based it might be worth seeking out a classic MG specialist.

Edited by Bobbins, 25 February 2024 - 05:52 AM.

[Vanman20]

There's many shades of HNA.

In the UK you can go to a paint motor factor that the trade use and they'll scan a pattern off your vehicle and get a reasonable match that way and put it in an aerosol for you.That would be solvent paint......I don't know if solvent paint is available in LA,I don't know what the regulations are there.

Google brings up a number of paint suppliers in LA

[Tremelune]

I gotta wonder...if there are multiple shades of HNA, why have a paint code at all...?

 

If anyone in the US stumbles on this thread looking for the same paint, I bought a (very expensive) can of it from here:

 

https://expresspaint...=31796054097998

 

Fingers crossed!

[Tremelune]

Well, the color match is excellent, but it seems I didn't get the memo about multi-stage paint...The coverage from this paint is either abysmal or it's designed to be painted over a base of white...Really wish I'd figured that out before I started spraying, but I think it looks okay in the end. I wound up doing about a dozen coats over two days, waiting for each to dry for 10-15 minutes.

 

 

 

This was after several coats:

 

Edited by Tremelune, 19 March 2024 - 12:56 AM.