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I have an orange 1970 sonett that I want to have painted Safari green. I live in California and only low VOC paint formulations can be used here.
The primary problem I've encountered is that I don't have a sample to have scanned and none of the paint codes I could find online mean anything to the current paint manufacturers or or paint suppliers I'ved contacted. There is also some confusion because a couple of the paint manufacturers seemed to have mislabeled Safari green as Emerald green.
The codes I've found are:
ICI 9408 (actually labeled as emerald green in the ICI catalog but the color actually seems to be Safari)
Glasurit SAA 11120 called yellowgreen in German but seems to be true Safari green.
Dupont 34252 D (also mislabeled Emerald green by Dupont back in the day), now Axalta 844612 IS, the Axalata code was "matched" to the old defunct Dupont code in 2013. by computer and by eye, but to my eye it is too yellow.
And of course the Saab code is: 56197-6016 But this doesn't mean anything to anyone that I've consulted.
When one googles Saab Sonett Safari green you find images of a restored car that was featured by Hemmings....this one really seems to be what I believe to be Safari green and is probably most similar to the Glasurit color chip labelled yellowgreen.
Does anyone have a modern formula for the Safari green? Or a sample I could have scanned? The pain chips in the old paper books are too small to scan according to most people I've spoken with. I was hoping to just have it painted in single stage like it was originally. And I was hoping to have a cheap paint job. I'm waiting to see if Sherwin Williams will get back to me about matching it to some old formulas they have in the Dimension line. The old formulas they have for Safari green are from a defunct paint line that wouldn't have been able to used in California in any case due to VOC.
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