[Richard]

As you know Imron is still available but you have to use full air supply and suits to the painter. Or the painter is kaput. The stuff is nasty, and essentially catalyzed with cyanoacrylate, i.e. superglue. No wonder it still looks great after twenty years.

When you get replacement paint tell the paint shop you want single stage. This is different than the now standard color, then clear coat.

The reason you want single stage is that Imron is not clear coated, and if you try to blend a clear coat type blend it will never look right. You can blend the single stage by using blending solvent and then buffing.

When I did the front end work I used PPG paint because they have the best supply shop in town. The paint mixer had a special camera that he used to take a picture of the paint. It was almost an exact match, and I think that the sample panel I took him was not as exposed to the sun as the rest of the coach. I trust the camera method more than trying to match the paint codes.

Fair warning if any of the paint you are trying to match is metallic. Good luck with that. Subtle differences in spray guns, pressure, and technique can make pretty substantial changes in metallic appearance.