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Hello.

I bought myself several cans of citrus yellow based upon googling the color,wich i at first assumed to be actually yellow.

Now,all the pictures i found is this lovely light green metallic,it`s perfect for the late 60s,early 70s Mopars imo.

The questions is: Can i see your build`s in this color? And if you dont mind,describe what color/type primer you used first?

Thanks.

Tommy

Picture is from Scale Auto Magazine (Google)

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Tommy, I have used that color in the past and the color shown in the first image you posted is accurate, at least on my screen and according to my memory. The color is a light metallic green, not a yellow, so I would agree the name on the label is a bit misleading. That said, I think it's one of the better options (along with Dark Bronze Metallic) for an early '70s vehicle.

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Tommy, I have used that color in the past and the color shown in the first image you posted is accurate, at least on my screen and according to my memory. The color is a light metallic green, not a yellow, so I would agree the name on the label is a bit misleading. That said, I think it's one of the better options (along with Dark Bronze Metallic) for an early '70s vehicle.

I don't have a picture of a body I painted with this color, but I agree with Casey = the first image in this thread is a fairly accurate representation of the color that comes out of the can....mine having perhaps just a little more lime gold tint to it than this image portrays...TIM 

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Thanks guys. If it looks like the picture in the first post it is perfect and i`m happy.

This color might go well on the 67 GT500 Mustang,i belive it`s called Lime Gold.

I just looked at Auto Color Library, and also some google-image pics of '67 Shelbys in Lime Gold. That Charger Deathgoblin posted isn't far off the colors I saw.

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I prefer to look at real cars. I suspect it has a lot to do with how light hits the car how the color appear.

Lime Gold 1968 Mustang GT/CS

Lime Gold 1968 Mustang GT/CS

This is refered to as lime gold.

Lime Gold 1967 Mustang Fastback

Here is a bunch of cars in this color.

Maby the GT500 color is called somthing else? It appears a bit more light.

 

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Maby the GT500 color is called somthing else? It appears a bit more light.

 

Far as I know, the Shelby Mustang colors were just regular production Ford colors (except of course for the one Playmate Pink '69).

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The green metallic on the Mustangs is Ford Lime Gold. I used to have a 69 Torino Cobra in that color. It has a very gold base flake to it and it does change shades in light rather nicely. I think the color was used across the Ford line from around 68-72 or so. I have seen several Shelby's, 67's and 68's in lime gold.

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Cool, I wonder if you could change the shade of green by using a darker primer under it ?

I've found that many of the Testor/Model Master lacquers are very opaque, and aren't that much influenced by the primer color.

OTOH, which Testor "line" is this paint in? Some of the custom colors are far, far too "flaky" or "sparkly" to represent any factory paint. I don't know where this one is the system.

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I've found that many of the Testor/Model Master lacquers are very opaque, and aren't that much influenced by the primer color.

OTOH, which Testor "line" is this paint in? Some of the custom colors are far, far too "flaky" or "sparkly" to represent any factory paint. I don't know where this one is the system.

This is from the Model Master 2 Stage Lacquer line.

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Hello.

I bought myself several cans of citrus yellow based upon googling the color,wich i at first assumed to be actually yellow.

Now,all the pictures i found is this lovely light green metallic,it`s perfect for the late 60s,early 70s Mopars imo.

The questions is: Can i see your build`s in this color? And if you dont mind,describe what color/type primer you used first?

Thanks.

Tommy

Picture is from Scale Auto Magazine (Google)

 photo DSC04710.jpg

Beautiful,   very nice...

 

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That colour on the 1971 Barracuda body looks quite like Citrus Green Metallic . One caveat ; Chrysler reformulated its paints' colours for 1971 , to wit : paint codes whose prefix is "G" = 1971 ( for example , "GB5" is a different shade of blue versus "EB5" ; the latter being a 1969 colour,  with "E" indicating "1969" ) .

It would appear that Chrysler paint code is FF4 ,  a 1970 colour :http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/images/1970/duster-valiant/FF4-Duster.jpg

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I've found that many of the Testor/Model Master lacquers are very opaque, and aren't that much influenced by the primer color.

OTOH, which Testor "line" is this paint in? Some of the custom colors are far, far too "flaky" or "sparkly" to represent any factory paint. I don't know where this one is the system.

Shame,

If it was I could change the primer or base color and replicate all 3 of the popular  Mopars colors of the day.

F3 - a really light green with a hint of silver to it

F5 - a medium green - which is what the 1st picture shown of the barracuda body painted looks like

and F8 a pretty dark green

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