1966 Cadillac in Autumn Rust Metallic (code 46) Pictures?

[crowe-t]

Does anyone have any pictures of a 1966 Cadillac painted Autumn Rust Metallic?  It's paint code 46

 

[Snake45]

Google-image it. I've had amazing success googling any kind of car in any specific paint I've wanted to see.

[crowe-t]

I've been Google-ing it for days and can't find a single picture of a car painted this color.  

[Xingu]

Is this the color?

[espo]

Check out Testors One Coat Lacquer #1848m Root Beer, it might be very close.

Does anyone have any pictures of a 1966 Cadillac painted Autumn Rust Metallic?  It's paint code 46

 

[crowe-t]

Is this the color?

It definitely looks like the color.

If someone has a picture showing the color in a brighter setting that would be great.

 

[crowe-t]

Check out Testors One Coat Lacquer #1848m Root Beer, it might be very close.

 

I'll be using MCW paint.  The Testors Metallics looks a bit out of scale.  Kind of like metal flake.

[Harry P.]

[sjordan2]

According to the very handy paint code reference recently posted here by 69NovaYenko, this is also known as GM's WA 3510, or 3510 with different letter prefixes.

[Harry P.]

[crowe-t]

Thanks Harry for adjusting that picture. 

I'm trying to match a brown color to this 1964 Cadillac Ambulance in these 2 pictures below.  

I found these pictures of a 1970 Cadillac in Briarwood Firemist Metallic that looks close.

Someone mentioned 1966 Cadillac Autumn Rust Metallic.  The color chips that are scanned on the Autocolorlibrary.com seem to show the colors a bit darker than they should.

I lightened the 1966 Cadillac color chip a bit but would like to see some good pictures of this color on an actual car in good daylight.

 

[sjordan2]

It's possible that the difference in paint codes between what I found and the examples above could be the difference between GM/Cadillac and PPG codes.

[crowe-t]

Skip, The different paint manufactures all have different paint codes for the same color and GM has their own paint code.

So far the 1970 Cadillac Briarwood Firemist Metallic looks close enough.

1970 Chevrolet Classic Copper also looks sort of close too.

[sjordan2]

Skip, The different paint manufactures all have different paint codes for the same color and GM has their own paint code.

So far the 1970 Cadillac Briarwood Firemist Metallic looks close enough.

1970 Chevrolet Classic Copper also looks sort of close too.

For a scale model, the differences might be indistinguishable. To me, the big caveat is getting a fine pearl metallic and not a 1:1 metallic.

[crowe-t]

From what I've seen in pictures Model Car World (MCW) metallics seem to be somewhat in scale for 1/25 models.  Much better than the Testors metallics.  

[69NovaYenko]

 

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[crowe-t]

Greg,  I have gone to the paintref,com web site.  The Ambulance I'm building is one from the Schaefer Ambulance Service.  Schaefer used a GM special order color called 'Root Beer Matallic' that doesn't appear on any of the paint chip pages.  I learned of this from the Pofessional Car Society forum.  I've been unable to locate the paint code for 'Root Beer Matallic' so I'm trying to pick a color that's era correct and close enough.

So far 1970 Cadillac Briarwood Firemist Metallic, 1966 Cadillac Autumn Rust Metallic and 1970 Chevrolet Classis Copper look close.  Right now I'm leaning towards 1970 Cadillac Briarwood Firemist Metallic but I'm still trying to find a good picture showing 1966 Cadillac Autumn Rust Metallic.

 

 

[Snake45]

Okay, I did a little research and found out that '66 Cad Autumn Rust is exactly the same color as '69 Buick Copper Mist (Riviera only) and '69 Olds Chestnut Brown (Toronado Only). So you might want to google-image those cars and you might find pics of the color in the real world.  

Far as I can see, '70 Chevy Classic Copper isn't even in the same ballpark.

[crowe-t]

Okay, I did a little research and found out that '66 Cad Autumn Rust is exactly the same color as '69 Buick Copper Mist (Riviera only) and '69 Olds Chestnut Brown (Toronado Only). So you might want to google-image those cars and you might find pics of the color in the real world.  

Far as I can see, '70 Chevy Classic Copper isn't even in the same ballpark.

Thanks!  This is a big help.

[Harry P.]

Here's a good photo...

http://www.rockymtnoldsclub.org/jan05feature.html

[highway]

Autumn Rust 

 

 

[Fanof69]

Autumn Rust 

 

It dont get any rustier or autumnier than that