I was working with the shop guy getting the Lark ready for a paint touch-up this morning, and took the gas tank door in to the OEM Auto Paint store to find out what paint I needed. I'd figured it to be a foreign car paint, since I've seen very similar shades of metallic gold on Toyotas(especially Camry's), but I'd also wondered if it might not be the same gold paint used on the Golden Hawks. To my surprise, the paint analysis showed that it IS a Studebaker stock paint, Akzo code STUDE, color map 314C5. I don't think that the Larks came in that color, unless it was custom-ordered, though maybe the Cruisers were an exception. Apparently someone tried to make it look like a Golden Hawk at some point! The guy just put the scanner thing on the gas tank door, without asking what it came from, then looked at me funny and asked, with a glance out the shop window at my green RAV-4, "What are you trying to make look like a Studebaker"?
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