A fellow Bristol owner has very kindly lent me a colour chart for a 407 which has two types of Cambridge Grey paint, the non metallic is code number M1061 the metallic is Metaline M6024 as Kevin confirmed previously.
I cant remember from a previous post regarding a metallic blue finish if I had suggested Metaline was a brand or a type of finish, the important thing now though with the colour chart I have been able to confirm by matching it to the car that the original Cambridge Grey finish on my 401 was Metaline M6024.
Now the fun starts, I have recently seen a 401 and 400 painted in Cambridge Grey, both were a slightly lighter shade, perhaps closer to the non metallic M1061 but not as dark as the colour on my car, obviously the fact that one is a metallic colour will have a bearing on the look and the other factor that does not help is that I am slightly colour blind. I am going to take the chart to my friends who will be paining the car and get some test samples made.
One thing almost immediately apparent however is that the metallic dark grey and metallic silver are virtually the same as Rolls Royce Tudor and Shell Grey at least in their early 60's formulation.
Tudor Grey would at least for me look rather nice on the 401 and would make up for the fact that I painted my S2 in Astral Blue and Shell Grey when it was originally Tudor Grey, then again Astral Blue would look rather nice.
Geoff
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