Y'all ever seen this color?

[Jason in KC]

I was told by previous owner that this color was made for fire marshals. I've never seen another square in this color, and it is 100% factory original. Well, not anymore, but this is what color it was when I bought it. The previous owner put new doors and hood on it and the color he used was called "Atlas Red," which matches pretty damn well. It's an orangeish-red, more orange than red, though.

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[legopnuematic]

Looks like Cardinal red, 79?

 

[xm20k]

Agree if it is still the original single stage paint it is Cardinal red.

 

[goldpack]

I had a dukes of hazzard lunch box, that started in 1979

The Dukes of Hazzard - Wikipedia

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(which "may" have been a chevy hugger orange, ...or a tnt express color,...or whatever the car supplier whipped up for what they would in the near future need "much" of ...as they wrecked them for our amusement/ sadness)

you should take a look at the paint inside where no sun has ever beaten on to see what it looked like when new.
(so maybe the low dash, or under the dash,...inside the doors ) ...after about 47 years,...looking pretty nice on the outside though.

I found this for 1979 detailing Tangier Orange on 1979 trucks,...although the cardinal red could have lightened up over time to orange....or it got a respray sometime,...or it was just painted originally lighter than the "red" on the card ???
whole page: https://hdpaintcode.com/1970-to-1979-gm-paint-codes/

single slide linked:

https://hdpaintcode.com/files/1979-chevrolet-and-gmc-truck-paint-code-and-color-chart.jpg

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[Rustisbest]

Looks similar to mine but it has was painted by the shop class in the next county over in the early 2000s.
Pic from sometime around 2005 or so not long after my brother bought it

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Im not a fire marshall either

 

[goldpack]

Looks similar to mine but it has was painted by the shop class in the next county over in the early 2000s.
Pic from sometime around 2005 or so not long after my brother bought it

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Im not a fire marshall either

interesting how yours changes color in the sun/ in the garage.

locally I know a guy with a red ford galaxie sunliner 1960 convertible. ...he has taken it to 60 miles one way to a few summertime movie shoots, and the camera crews do not like his red,...so it maybe in one scene shot for short series of takes,...but it changes color too much for them to shoot all day with the sun moving. (...the background people like the car though...so parked or passing by, does not pay much: gets lunch and gas money,...and a day of maybe doing something interesting that hopefully is not a frustrating pain)

1960 Ford Fairlane is listed Sold on ClassicDigest in Missouri by Dan Hillebrandt for $24995.

1960 Ford Fairlane 352 C.I. V8 Convertible Sold on ClassicDigest

www.classicdigest.com

looks just like this: (did not want to insert a pick of a 1960 ford red into this thread...although I have seen Ford Reds...on antique GM vehicles)
https://cdn.classicdigest.com/live/carimg/158401_158500/158425_76f4ae8936d790b5.jpg

 

[Strick]

My 76 High Sierra is code 73 Crimson Red and it looks like that...or did 30 years ago. My 79 Cardinal Red and it is darker than the truck in the pic.

HS

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Tangier Orange is definitely ORANGE, we almost bought a truck that color in '78. Saw the Colonial Yellow and decided that was a little bit easier to take.... Still didn't keep the poor truck from getting run into a few times though (we wanted a high visibility color because it was going to be a delivery/shop truck for a business in boomtown Houston). The Colonial Yellow did fade in the sun, to more of a buttermilk shade than the code 53 chip has.

 

[Jason in KC]

Looks like Cardinal red, 79?

Except... Cardinal Red wasn't an option for '79. I'm tellin' ya, it's a real oddball!

 

[TotalyHucked]

Got a picture of the SPID label?

 

[xm20k]

They renamed and changed codes for the same colors 70 / 73 / 5285 and PPG# 2932 are all the same color they changed names and numbers for the same colors at different times due to single stage vs base clear or change of manufacturer/supplier even chemistry changes.

 

[Jason in KC]

Got a picture of the SPID label?

Unfortunately that's long gone.

 

[legopnuematic]

Except... Cardinal Red wasn't an option for '79. I'm tellin' ya, it's a real oddball!

Cardinal red was a standard color for 1979. I own one.

The invoice for my 79:

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Cut from the 79 pickup brochure:

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[Jason in KC]

Cardinal red was a standard color for 1979. I own one.

The invoice for my 79:

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Cut from the 79 pickup brochure:

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Well I'll be damned, I stand corrected then. If mine is in fact Cardinal Red, they sure did a piss-poor job of naming it; it's not even close to red!

 

[goldpack]

Well I'll be damned, I stand corrected then. If mine is in fact Cardinal Red, they sure did a piss-poor job of naming it; it's not even close to red!

on this page

Vehicle Color Code Database

What are the paint codes for? We have them all here. Every manufacturer from A to Z, plus fleet color from Semi's and National Standard company's paint codes. If we don't have it, we will get it.

hdpaintcode.com

comes up on the motorhome and step van list for 1979 (Cardinal Red #70,..no 2 tone)

so maybe they had it just laying around,..and not in the pre-printed books to use.
as far as red cardinal bird plumage pics from the internet and seeing much variation in color,...I would think its DNA or local present diet would make one more "red" vs. more "orange",...but to me cardinal is not light.

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