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Thanks. I'm going to have the guys from work look and see what they think.

I sprayed the cheaper solvent based paint for a test card today. I noticed they had the formula in the newer water based paint. I might try that too, its surprising how different they can come out. The water based stuff is 4x more expensive.

Did you translate the "T" paint code from Broncohio?

Broncohio says T=Candy Apple Red, our BASF mixing system said T=Candy Apple Red, Ford 66-79, so it's the right color.

I might have blown the mix, I mixed a very minimal amount, in between coats on a car I was painting. Our paint booth was recently upgraded and we are moving a lot more air through the booth. But this has made the space around the booth drafty. Our scale is sensitive enough to be affected by this added air flow. I think I might have missed the mix by a +/-0.1 grams of one toner due to the draft. In 18 oz you'd never see it, but in 2 oz it can make a big difference. I'm going to mix it again, maybe 6 ounces, without the booth running.

I've been reading about Candy Apple & looking at pics, and it's not a bright red, like my test panel.

I'd think that your inner door panels and inner tailgate would still be pretty true to the original color.

Here's one that I removed the 70's carpet from and it looks a lot like yours.(it was also a candy apple red)

Lots of good paint on this one, looks a lot like that pic.

I found a couple more "paint OK" stamps.

One on the driver's fender





One under the steering column, on the lower lip of the dash

One of 141 Candy Apple Red Explorer Sports.

I guess I don't know how to change a pdf to a picture.

9 years, 1100 miles and a new build plan are now in progress. If anyone wants to follow along:

https://classicbroncos.com/forums/threa ... ld.327325/

It's a pretty great rig, super happy I kept it and didn't do the full EFI resto mod. This one deserves to stay in it's original paint.