Red Inner Fender Well Skirts-Olds

[69NovaYenko]

In the 60ties Olds hi-performance "W" code cars had inner fender well skirts were painted red. Can anyone tell me the name/paint code of this red?

On one of the 1:1 Olds forums someone mentioned they thought it was called "Flame Red. So far I have not been able to locate this color listed on any of the automotive paint chips references. Also, what years did Olds run the red inner fender well skirts...1966-1970?

Thanks in advance for the assistance.

-G

Edited May 17, 2016 by 69NovaYenko

[Greg Myers]

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Oldsmobile+red+inner+fender+well+skirts

 

I thought they were red plastic ? 

Edited May 17, 2016 by Greg Myers

[Rodent]

They are plastic even if they are black. I had a '70 Cutlass convertible in the early 80s.

[69NovaYenko]

Thanks for the replies.

[Rodent]

Thanks for the replies.

Completely un-helpful as they were.

The ones that I remember seeing were kind of an orangy-red, kind of like Chrysler Hemi Orange/TorRed. Being red and being plastic, they tended to fade and hold dirt and grease. I think that I would try the model master Hemi Orange with dullcoat and see if it looks right.

[Greg Myers]

They look RED in all the sites I posted,  Red is red. 

[69NovaYenko]

Completely un-helpful as they were.

The ones that I remember seeing were kind of an orangy-red, kind of like Chrysler Hemi Orange/TorRed. Being red and being plastic, they tended to fade and hold dirt and grease. I think that I would try the model master Hemi Orange with dullcoat and see if it looks right.

Many..many thanks for making  an ernest effort at answering the question. It is  genuinely appreciated. :-)

Edited May 18, 2016 by 69NovaYenko

[Snake45]

They look RED in all the sites I posted,  Red is red. 

I agree. In all pics I've seen, they look red, not orange or even red-orange.

And weren't these available on something else too--GTOs, maybe? I think I recently saw a mag story on a '66 or '67 GTO that had them. Maybe it was something else, but I was a little surprised it wasn't an Olds.

[Foxer]

This is interesting, I never knew the did this on any car.

On a whim, I painted the fender wells on my dark blue TR4A with zinc chromate primer.

just babbling what this made me think of ...

[1972coronet]

I seem to remember that Testors' Flat Red was an excellent match .

Tim Boyd built one of the Revell 1966 GTO kits a couple of years back , and he replicated the plastic wheel well liners on it . Apparently , Pontiac and Oldsmobile had the liners ; probably different part numbers though ( ?? ) .

Edited May 19, 2016 by 1972coronet

[Rodent]

This W-30 is paint code 75, which Olds called Matador Red, Chevy called Cranberry Red, and Pontiac called Cardinal Red. You can see that the liners are a little lighter/brighter than the body color.

If I remember correctly, the earlier A-Bodies had metal inner fenders, so the 66 GTO had plastic liners on the bottom. When GM went to the plastic inner fenders, they just molded them in red plastic.

 

[dshue76]

I always use flat red or gloss red with a flat clear. Looks "right" to me.

[afx]

What was the reason behind making them red,  just to call attention to them being light weight plastic?

Edited May 23, 2016 by afx

[69NovaYenko]

I seem to remember that Testors' Flat Red was an excellent match .

Tim Boyd built one of the Revell 1966 GTO kits a couple of years back , and he replicated the plastic wheel well liners on it . Apparently , Pontiac and Oldsmobile had the liners ; probably different part numbers though ( ?? ) .

1972Coronet, genuinely thank you for the lead.

[1972coronet]

1972Coronet, genuinely thank you for the lead.

I read an article on a build-up of the Jo-Han 1970 Oldsmobile 442 in a 1986 issue of Scale Auto . I'm *thinking* that the author / builder was George B. ( I don't remember how to properly spell his surname ) . He employed Testors Flat Red for the 'liners , IIRC ; I used that colour on the 442 I was building at the time (lost in 1987 to the earthquake) .

Tim Boyd is one of my favourite hobbiests , going back as far as 1984 when I discovered Scale Auto .