65 side and top stripes

[DC-DD]

Looking for a good newer paint code for the stripes.
Alot of the old paint #s for the paint not getting me anywhere.

Any help greatly appreciated

Dominic

[camp upshur]

DD-DC,
I have recently painted my car, after years of research prior, a photo library of hundreds of photos and personal contact with some of the leading restorers.
I could find no consensus. True paint compositions have been long reformulated, homogenized, or consolidated with other colors by the manufacturers. Most leading shops use their own blends which (although all nice) are all over the place.
Attached pics show seven (yes seven $$$) of the different 'Guardsman' blues I did spray-outs on.
FWIW, my car was original paint when I bought it, and I remember the blue as quite dark, but it was faded and opaque, big mismatch w the side lettering, and in years past I always
tinted-up the blue to minimize the clash. But that was over 50 years ago. This time I went back w a 'darker' formulation. -wish I could be more specific.
Glad you didn't ask about the 'white'!

[mlplunkett]

So can you provide specific info on the formulation that came out on the dark end of the spectrum? The color on the car looks pretty good.