The Wedgewood Blue paint (code 53) on my series 3 looks very patchy, because the previous owner touched up various blemishes with Triumph Wedgewood Blue, which is a deeper shade than the Rootes colour.

The car really needs stripping and respraying, but before it is worth doing that, some bodywork faults would need sorting, and I don't want to get into that just now. Therefore, during the winter, I thought I would try and make the car look a bit better by using cutting compound to rub away the Triumph colour and put a shine on the flat original paint. Unfortunately, a trial rub down on one tail fin went through to the primer, so now I need to touch it up with the proper Rootes colour (accepting that it won't be a full match because the old paint has faded).

I think I have heard that it is possible to have paint specially mixed and put into empty aerosols, but presumably I would need to quote the correct paint mix formula. Am I right with this, and if so, does anyone know what the formula is? Thanks.

Steve

Hi Steve,
I recently ordered some paint in aerosols for my serIII from

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All they required was the original Sunbeam paint code from my car.
Hope this helps, Mick.

I've had some paint from these guys

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not used it yet so I can't report on quality/colour match.

Halfords do it as well, but again cant comment as i havent used it.

That's really helpful - thanks chaps. There's a Halfords store near me, but it never occurred to me that they would offer a service for older cars like ours. I'll give them a try, and if no joy, I'll try the other ones.

Steve

Did Rootes spell Wedgewood thus?
The originator of the colour Josiah Wedgwood spelt his name thus.

Parts list has it as Josiah did. One 'e'

All I can do is offer my apologies to old Josiah's spirit and hope that he won't come back and put a curse on my Alpine. It's suffered enough of those from me already!

Steve