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Title: Paint code for silver top on a Vendo 23 Deluxe
Post by: sodaman on March 12, 2010, 04:05:02 pm
I need a paint code for silver top on a Vendo 23 Deluxe, can anyone help?   Thanks, Harrison.


Title: Re: Paint code for silver top on a Vendo 23 Deluxe
Post by: sodaman on March 23, 2010, 05:13:37 am
I assume no one has ever restored a Vendo 23 Deluxe???


Title: Re: Paint code for silver top on a Vendo 23 Deluxe
Post by: SIGNGUY on March 23, 2010, 08:42:59 am
Not sure either, but I'd assume pick a color that just looks good to you?


Title: Re: Paint code for silver top on a Vendo 23 Deluxe
Post by: loman4ec on March 23, 2010, 10:47:27 am
I don't think anyone really worries about exact paint codes as they probably didn't even have a specific code at the factory. Just pick a silver that you like and go with it. There in no one in the world that will look at it and say "wow thats the wrong color of Silver" There is also no specific coke for the red. The information that is from Colamachines.com is just what someone found by picking something out and it being close. I just use what I like the best. In the paint books there are dozens of codes for Coke red that range greatly in color from dark to almost orange.


Title: Re: Paint code for silver top on a Vendo 23 Deluxe
Post by: sodaman on March 24, 2010, 02:43:04 pm
That may be true in some cases, but I use the original Coke red numbers in the 1955 service manual.  Yes, I can match the silver very closely, just thought Coke might have listed the silver paint code like they did the red and white.  Thanks for the replies, I appreciate it.