Colour of 1939

[Anzac Buick64]

Hi Guys

So the progress continues on my 1939. We found more rust in the doors as we started on the paint so continued to remove it ,

Does anyone have a color photo of a car in the original of the "Zion Maroon" that was used on 1939 Buicks?. When our family had the car re sprayed 20 years ago the color that my late father in law used was a Ford/Mercury color called "Black Cherry". Does anyone have any details on this color? I would like to get a handle on the difference between the two colours

The car was assembled in New Zealand from new and colors used down here may be slightly different to USA/North American colors

I attach a few photos here of the work in progress. My avatar has a photo of the car as we started and there are a lot in my gallery. feel free to browse.

Cheers

Andrew

Anzac Buick 64

BCA 47050

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[Anzac Buick64]

And here are some more photos of how we started and where we are getting too

Cheers

Andrew

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[1939_Buick]

There are 2 maroon '39's in Christchurch, Ross W & John T. As a wild guess both have probably repainted. Both are darker than your car. Will email you some photo's of both, but the John T car is an old photo that has been scanned. For me the maroon color is the best. NZ colors seem to be the same as USA. Aust colors were different

Edited March 5, 2014 by 1939_buick (see edit history)

[Guest Grant Magrath]

Chevs and Buicks used the same colors in some cases, but with different names. Pop around to see my father when you're in town, We have original paint chips, and we've had some mixed up for my father's friend's 39 Chevy. It's a beautiful color, very dark red.

Cheers

Grant

[1939_Buick]

Look here:

http://www.autocolorlibrary.com/

http://www.tcpglobal.com/aclchip.aspx?image=1939-Buick-pg01.jpg

Edit

Another on line source

http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/chipdisplay.cgi?year=1939&manuf=GM&info=&page=1

Has mixing recipes and cross brand info

http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?type=paint&paint=48499&ditzler=50029&smodel=Buick&syear=1939&smanuf=GM&sname=Zion%20Maroon

Edit 2

Another source

http://pc.dupont.com/dpc/en/US/html/visitor/b/dr/s/color/hcl.html

http://pc.dupont.com/hcl/servlet/com.dpc.hcl.search.HclSearchServlet?browsePath=Domestic+Cars%2FGM%2FBuick+1930-1939&Operation=102&carRegion=2&carType=GM

I think the Ross W car is zion maroon

Edited March 8, 2014 by 1939_buick (see edit history)

[Guest Grant Magrath]

You're right Allan. Ross's car is pretty close to the original Zion Red. His car still has the shipping brackets attached! The dealers were supposed to remove them, but his were left on. That has to be pretty rare!

Cheers

Grant