Hi, this winter I am going to attempt to paint my cowl hood from black to match the rest of the car, if it goes well I will work on painting the rest of of car to match. The body is in great shape, just alot of missing clear coat and over all fade from 30 years of time. Its a 1991 Camaro, maui blue. It's overwhelming to find the correct med met. Maui blue from a vendor. I know there is a few blends of Maui blue. I'm looking for some guidance to find paint that will be the same color code as what I have. Im hoping someone on here has painted their maui blue camaro at some point and can help.. Thanks for any info or vendors that may have this specific paint. Pic is current.

 

That color was not fun when it was NEW

Seriously, if the car is sun faded and has upper surface degradation you'll never match it any way... The color will be shifted from your original color, due to the faded clear. (all of the UV screeners are non-existent at this point) One quick way to tell is to look at your jambs vs. the upper surface exterior finish...

You can only get the closest variant that you have, and paint the hood. Hand polish an area low on the car have the paint store get the closest match on the variant deck. If you were to have a shop do it, and the paint were in good condition, they would still want to blend adjacent panels with that color anyway...

Good luck

 

Well the plan is to paint the entire car eventually. So matching the old to the new isn't that important, but I am trying to retain the closest color i can get. I think I'm going to a fisher body/parts store near by and see if they can match it decently well. Mabey buy a whole gallon. It may be tight but do you think 1 gallon of single stage will cover the car?


The door jams are the same color, I can't tell the difference at 5 ft. it's not extremely faded except for where the clear coat is litterlt gone/flaked off. Only on the plastic areas. Front clip/bumper and the rear wing and bumper is it really dull.

 

A gallon of single stage should be plenty...unless you're doing all the jambs and inside panels. Not really sure I'd purchase that much now, unless you plan to start very soon. The paint will stay good for a while as long as you seal it back up good, but the catalyst/hardeners will start to drop off within a shorter time.

Any reason you're going with single stage? If you were doing it yourself, (and it's your first time) there's a much bigger learning curve spraying a high metallic color in single stage vs. base/clear...

 

I was going to do single stage for the cost. But 2 stage isn't much more now that I priced it all out. From my little experience, it was pretty hard to get single stage evenly sprayed, it wasent metallic. Seems single stage is thinner, easier to have runs.