Paint Colour MK 1

[trippdl]

Back in the early 1970's, I had a job with a classic car dealer in Atlanta which involved my driving extensively in various classic cars (and new Aston Martins). A rough job, I know, but someone had to do it...

A couple of my charges were a "Sand and Sable" Silver Cloud II, and a "Sand and Garnet" Cloud III.

You're right, the photo doesn't do the colour justice.

Even back then, these colours were just about impossible to get, because when they were new, these Rolls Royce pearlescent paints were formulated with ground-up Mother of Pearl. Consider the economics of having somebody scraping the nacre out of oyster shells by hand...

My best advice would be to try to forego the absolute historical accuracy, and find a modern gold paint that you like, and which is in common enough usage that you can walk into Halford's and get a touch-up pen when you need one.

I had the Gilbern Red paint on my Genie colour-matched with a scanner, and it was very nice, too; however, by the time it came back from the trimmer it had at least one scratch or scrape on every panel. Eventually, I discovered that VW Classic Red was close enough that you almost had to know where the scratches had been to spot the repairs, but if I was doing it again, I'd probably paint the car with the Volkswagen colour, even if it wasn't actually as nice as the original, just for the convenience of repairs.

Unless the car only comes out of it's storage on high days and holy days, it will pick up scratches and road rash which will need touching up.

Dave

[Spindrift]

Well the plot thickens, I got some Jaguar Opalescent Gold, era 1969, when I tried to match it to the car, it was too pale. However when I compared it to the underside of the door trim, it matched. So I rubbed down part of the rear wing, and sure enough it was a much lighter colour underneath.
I therefore can only presume, that it's been re-sprayed at some point previously, so I have gone with this colour.