Practically Classics Forum

decided to go with old english white, powder coated.
got a decent quote from a finishers in warrington and he can do them on a couple of days turn round.
i do need to give him the RAL number which i believe to be 9001?

many thanks chaps

kev

As I understand it, the first shade in any category is listed as 000, 9 is the first character for both white and black so this would mean that the pure shades would be 000 and 001 (no idea which is which), so OEW - which is slightly creamy - would logically have a higher number as it's further from white. However, if you've seen a chip that shows the actual shade and are happy with its suitability for the task, then that matters more than the numbers.

JPB wrote:As I understand it, the first shade in any category is listed as 000, 9 is the first character for both white and black so this would mean that the pure shades would be 000 and 001 (no idea which is which), so OEW - which is slightly creamy - would logically have a higher number as it's further from white. However, if you've seen a chip that shows the actual shade and are happy with its suitability for the task, then that matters more than the numbers.

seen a swatch online but would rather get the proper ral number if any1 has that info?

kevin wrote:decided to go with old english white, powder coated.
got a decent quote from a finishers in warrington and he can do them on a couple of days turn round.
i do need to give him the RAL number which i believe to be 9001?

many thanks chaps

kev

Hi Kev,

Out of interest which powder coaters did you use? Are they up by the machine mart in Warrington?

OK, 9001 is cream, so that's probably one generic equivalent of OEW which was of course a BMC colour, other whites are 9002 (Grey White) 9003 (Signal White) and 9010 (Pure White) so the chart doesn't in fact progress as I'd been led to believe initially.
There are also 1013 which is Oyster White and that looks quite close to (Land Rover and Reliant) Stone, as well as 1014 which is Ivory and appears equally close to OEW if a little less bright and 1015, Light Ivory, which also looks very close and much "creamier".

If OEW were a Rootes colour and one that they and they alone used on wheels, then fair enough, go for the number but I still say that the human eye is the best tool for this job.

Your wheels would originally have been Foam Grey, I`m certain of it. Rootes used it on most if not all of their wheels.

I have to admit that a creamy white does look better than body colour. I bought some wide wheels for my old Minx and they had been sprayed dark grey. That was the same colour as the car and, TBH, they looked really naff.

im thinking the easiest way for ward here is to rub through one of the rims until i get to the original white (cream) then get a match.
i have got a swatch of RAL colours heading its way to me so we will go on from there.

many thanks

Stick on a set of 'knock off' centre Halibrands with Mickey Thompson tyres. 440 Magnum and a '57 olds backend. Now that is a 'classic'!

Phil P wrote:Stick on a set of 'knock off' centre Halibrands with Mickey Thompson tyres. 440 Magnum and a '57 olds backend. Now that is a 'classic'!

Is this a clue about what we have to look forward to in the next series of SOS?