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Sweet ride; I’m very prejudice to the color. Looks like Butternut. My 67 138 is Butternut. I like the comments from people at shows and cruise-ins. I showed with 10-different 66-67 Chevelle’s last year. All were Bolero Red, Marina Blue or Black. The Butternut really gets a lot of attention. Good choice of color.
 

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Sorry; the first photos looked like Butternut. I guess I need to pay closer attention. Still a great color choice!
 

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Great choice. That Cottonwood Green says 1971 and is real purdy.
 

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Hi Partychief,
Do you have a capture of the paint mixed you used? The reason I'm asking is I have an Ash Gold '68 car but when we tried to find the formula the spray-out looked wrong (Despite the name ash gold looked green). I saw a 71 Chevelle painted in cottonwood green and it looked a little closer to what I remembered for Ash Gold and even seemed to match areas of paint covered for 50+ years on my car. So we tried to get the formula for cottonwood green and it seemed to go to something called willow mist green.

I had a hood which was painted to match Ash gold from another car. It was almost in between the Ash gold we found and cottonwood green. That hood looked green in bright sun but almost like a faint sea green. Under shop lights it looked like bronze-gold with zero green. The Ash gold formula the shop painting my car found didn't look green in any light. The willow mist looks bronze-gold under shop lights but a more intense green in full sun (almost too intense). It's crazy to see a paint from the late 60's to early 70's have that type of change.

Anyway I thought your experience with finding cottonwood could help and if you have a capture of exactly what you used it would be interesting.

Thanks,
Scott
 

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Cottonwood Green is unmistakably green. Ash Gold is almost a green masquerading as gold, it is sort of a mild lime-gold. They did Ash Gold in '68, but later it seemed to have come back for an encore for 1981.



I also think it was offered on 1988 Isuzu I-Marks & so-forth. It bears investigating.
 
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