Dear John and mid-60s Buick fans,
I'll probably paint mine the color it came with on the vin tag . I was just curious , sometimes you hear people talk about a certain car being one of ten (or so ) of a certain color .
I'm not sure how they determine those numbers unless there is data confirming that somewhere .
Just curious I guess
My 1965 Buick Special wagon was painted Buick's own formulation of
"seamfoam green." My Mom fell in love with the car back 1968 when the car was sitting in a used car lot and well, my Dad wanted something cheaper but . . . .
My trusty wagon as I call her, was in a minor accident in 1994, and got a paint job from miracle painting. Well it was better than nothing, but it wasn't Buick's
"seafoam green." 17 years later, one of them German sports sedan plowed into my wagon in a parking lot forcing another repainting. This time the body shop was up to the task of getting the original Buick color right:
If you like the original color of your car, it is worth the effort to get it reproduced correctly. When my trusty wagon came back from the body shop in early 2011, I was amazed. The wagon of my youth had been returned to me for the first time in 17 years!
Cheers, Edouard