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Heres a quick one for ya, race hemi orange is the reddish color correct?
While street hemi orange is the bright orange color?

Other way around.

The original 'race' colour was a very orange orange if you know what I mean.

The later 'street' colour had more red in it and is what is normally refered to as 'Hemi Orange'.

WARNING!
Most engine paints you buy today (including the Mopar Performance paint) IS THE WRONG COLOUR! It is a horrible brown/red/orange that looks awful to me. Yet you still see lots of 'restored' cars wearing it on their engines. YUK!

So just to make sure this color of this engine would be race hemi orange?

Err. I'm colour blind!

Plus it is very hard to tell from photos. My car is painted hemi orange and it can look like that in photos on a sunny day or with a flash on the camera. But without the flash and on an overcast day it looks red in photos.

So Dave, I was thinking about painting my 70 Hemi Orange. How do I know I'm getting the right paint mix, as all paint distributers would have their own mix ratio's? Should I only buy from a particular company? Am I right by saying PPG mixed all Chrysler colors back in early 70's?

There are already some thoughts about this on the Message board:

http://challenger.mpoli.fi/phpbb/viewto ... 0935#10935

(Not very easy to find I guess....)

Here is the secret formula! Eat it after you have read it.

I would like to add that I used a can from Bill Hirsch (just to make the confusion even bigger ). I doubt that it is the correct colour but I can´t tell for sure since I have nothing to compare with. A good help, eh?

Doesn't look like the right colour to me. Hemi orange is more like a scarlet.

So in other words the 2 cans of MP street hemi orange paint is goning to make my engine look like mud. Great!

here is the info on the can of street hemi orange i used on my darts motor. in certian light it will almost look red. but thats just the way the color is... it really isn't an orange orange color... if that makes any sence..


till paint co.
U-Tech urethane topcoat

yr 1960 mfg dupont code 5067U

color: orange

sfx: k sys: 4 voc: 0.36

mixed 10-23-04

contains lead

in this pic. the intake and valve covers are the MP spray paint.. nowhere near the proper color...




the valve covers have some over spray but look at the difference in color..