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schwinn maroon paint

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edselcat2000

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hello what is the closest modern paint that people are using for that 1940 Schwinn maroon color ? thx

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Dupliccolor,(Ford) Dark Canyon Red.
It’s an exact match.
The Ivory color varies quite a bit from bike to bike/year to year, but I’ve found that, Duplicolor, Wimbledon White, or Sante Fe Tan, are pretty close, depending on the variation.
Good quality automotive grade paint, in an aerosol can.
 
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Dupliccolor,(Ford) Dark Canyon Red.
It’s an exact match.
The Ivory color varies quite a bit from bike to bike/year to year, but I’ve found that, Duplicolor, Wimbledon White, or Sante Fe Tan, are pretty close, depending on the variation.
Good quality automotive grade paint, in an aerosol can.
hello what is the closest modern paint that people are using for that 1940 Schwinn maroon color ? thx

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Why not paint it two tone green or two tone blue?

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Ford Dark Canyon red is very close to Schwinn maroon without aging. That is if you want fresh dark red.

If you're trying to match oxidized dark red, it gets trickier. I've had bikes where it turns more to a brown color, and some where it turns to a black cherry type color. It seems to depend on the bike's storage life. I match these colors by adjusting a mixture of Testor's black enamel (usually semi-gloss or flat, depending on how glossy what I am matching is) and Testor's gloss dark red. The last bike I did was 20 parts dark red to 1 part flat black. The mixture has to be tuned based on each bike. The matching is done based on dried samples (don't try to match wet paint to dry).
 
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