My 55 Banner Blue is in the paint shop now and the color recipie samples for the Snowshoe WHite needed for wheels and grille all look quite creamy compared to pre-strip color. Its tough to believe that color might have faded and chalked to the brighter old paint I had.

PPG_Ditzler actually pops up the color name COLONIAL white for 1955 "E" code. Dupont's is the right name but still a cream not bright white.

Is Snowhshoe actually a little off white to cream (In other words, should I realx and put it on ? Suggest vendor / color code?? THX:-X23

 

My 1956 shop manual says color code E is Colonial White, Ford part number M20J-524. It was used on the two-tone cab paint jobs. I'm 99% sure the 1955 paint code E is the exact same Colonial White paint.

George

 

the colonial white 1956 E from Ditzler-PPG is formulated somewhat creamier than the E 1955 that I was already concerned about. We have sprayed samples of each color. I found an unstripped parking light door by accident yesterday, not bad condition, much whiter than these 2 samples. Hence, I'm still searching. Maybe the original paint did fade and chaulk to that brighter white, but its hard to believe!
(midnite cruiser at home machine)

 

To close the story, I had paint matched to the parking light doors that were unstripped, and looked more like every physical truck and gallery internet shot I had seen. Will do wheels, grille, bumpers in the resultant PPG 'Galaxy White".

So I think this color issue is still open really. In order of whitest to 'tannest" (creamiest?) of the flavors we made up from codes and names

galaxy white- PPG from color match
Old English White- came up as '55 "E" code for cars
Colonial White- PPG the '56 "E" code
Snowshoe White- PPG the PPG truck '55 "E" code.



Will post up new shot on gallery when done!
Great club, info, discussions and irreverence!

Midnite Cruiser