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Re: Escort Paint Code Help Needed 2014/07/08 23:48:42 (permalink)
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"More digging to do lol"
 
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Re: Escort Paint Code Help Needed 2014/07/09 00:12:03 (permalink)
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Between 1979 and 1983 paint code L referred to a colour called 'Hermitage' which sounds like a deeper red (like wine). It was an option on the XD XE Falcons.
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Re: Escort Paint Code Help Needed 2014/07/09 00:38:43 (permalink)
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These codes are taken from the Ford Escort microfiche parts list dated Feb82.
6/76 - 6/77                                                  6/77 - 1/79                                                  1/79 -
A Blue Steel                                               E Frosted Pine                                             B Arctic Blue
C Antique Beige                                         F Sweet Cream                                           C Midnight
G Banana Blush                                         H Red Flame                                               D Mint Glaze
H Red Flame                                              M Satin Spruce                                            K Monza Red
J Blaze Blue                                               O Modena Green                                         O Nutmeg
K Tango                                                     P Pine "n" Lime                                           T Wedgewood
L Mushroom Beige                                    R Raw Orange                                             X Lemon Lime
P Pine "n" Lime                                         S Brown Satin                                              Z Burnt Orange
O Coolmint                                                W Platinum Blue                                          3 Gold Dust
S Brown Satin                                            4 Neptune Blue                                            4 Silver Grey
T Outback Bronze                                      5 Desert Haze                                              7 Ghost Gum
X Stardust Silver                                        9 Sno White                                                 9 Sno White
Y Harvest Gold                                                                                                               Denim Pack Olympic Blue
Z Sherwood Green
1 Peppermint Green
4 Neptune Blue
9 Sno White
post edited by Philh - 2014/07/09 00:42:13
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Re: Escort Paint Code Help Needed 2014/07/09 14:49:32 (permalink)
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My understanding of red's available as standard colours on an 80 model Escort was Monza red or Monza red which is paint code K.
Are you positive your car wasnt painted after it left the factory?  I know of midnight blue MK2 RS's having been painted red by the Ford dealer because they couldnt sell them and this was before they had even been registered!
 
There certainly was a beige available in 1980 on flat nose models

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Re: Escort Paint Code Help Needed 2014/07/09 19:18:46 (permalink)
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PeterM
Don't forget in the '60's, '70's and early '80's the description of the colour was often no where near the actual colour itself.


Must have been the drugs man.

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Re: Escort Paint Code Help Needed 2014/07/09 23:27:23 (permalink)
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Thanks but no I can assure you it is original red. Im a panel beater for 20years and have stripped the car myself and every single spec of paint has been original, no filler in any panels, and all the overspray is consistent with a factory sprayed escort. It is definately the colour it came, and the code is definately the original stamping.
post edited by AJCoupe - 2014/07/10 08:15:12
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