Please do with multiple (different lighting and angles) pictures to illustrate your findings.
Thanks
First, before getting into my Reply, I should note that I had my Annual Eye Check-up in February, and I am not color blind, and in addition, at two weeks from turning 70, the only glasses I have are 1.75 Reading Glasses, and those only because my “35 sleeve length arms” aren’t long enough to read the small print.
That being said, here we go :
As drummingrocks felt that the 1967 Grill Paint that he had obtained from NPD looked like argent, I thought it would be a good idea to include “bar samples" of Argent along with the 1967 Grill Paint that I had finally gotten after waiting two months from NPD.
The first picture attached shows the paints I used. On the left, is Argent paint from Classic Auto Supply that I have used on my 1957 Thunderbird. I have compared it to some original Ford (not Motorcraft) Argent that I still have and the color is very good, but the Ford appears to have more metallic in it. In the middle is the 1967 Grill Paint, and on the right is Argent from NPD. Note that all are Seymour Paints, and most likely the two Argents are the same, but I have included both.
In the pictures that follow where all three “bar samples” are shown, the Classic Auto Supply Argent is always on the left, or on top, the 1967 Grill Paint in the middle, and the NPD Argent on the right, or bottom.
I think that it’s pretty obvious in the several pictures that I have included showing all three sample bars, that NPD’s 1967 Grill Paint isn’t even close to Argent. I think that either drummingrocks received a mislabeled can, or maybe it’s time for his Eye Check-up ??
The next nine pictures are of the 1967 Grill Paint sample bar only, in various positions and lighting (outdoor in shade, outdoor in sun, inside garage with ceiling fluorescent lighting and inside garage with the addition of a bench mounted fluorescent work light).
The final three pictures show the 1967 Grill Paint Sample Bar laid across my original grill, which as you can see, has most of the original paint missing.
In conclusion, I feel that NPD’s 1967 Mustang Grill Paint is very close to the original, based on the above. Also interesting is that this paint is very similar to the tutone Dark Gray Metallic Paint used on that Option (although I do not have a Grill Paint paint code to confirm that).
Hope this will be of help.
Bob
