Super Dexta paint - blue or pink

landowner · Post by **landowner** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 7:09 pm

Cant seem to get the colour right on my '64 Super Dexta.

the paint I got from agriline looks to be too light, any body know if they changed the colour to a lighter or darker shade when switching to the grey wheeled Super Dexta.

thank you

Not painting this one pink BTW, maybe next time.

Bensdexta · Post by **Bensdexta** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:26 pm

New Performance Blue is a bit lighter than Empire Blue. Here's a thread about it:
http://www.fordsontractorpages.nl/phpbb ... blue+paint
All the best

russelm · Post by **russelm** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:52 am

I hear this years colour is 'hearing aid beige'

landowner · Post by **landowner** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:39 pm

Thanks for that, Empire Blue it is then

Bensdexta · Post by **Bensdexta** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:07 pm

landowner wrote:Thanks for that, Empire Blue it is then

You want New Performance Blue for your '64 SD, don't you??

landowner · Post by **landowner** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:15 pm

Whoops !

I'll have a look at the tin I bought (thought it was Empire) it's definately on the lighter side of blue and I thought it looked too light after seeing paint jobs in the magazines.
Hard to tell as shades vary wildly in photos.

Thought I should have used a darker undercoat but the colour comes out very similar when srayed either on red lead or light grey undercoat.

It's going on now anyway, sod it...

Post by **Brian** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 7:25 am

The magazines are not always right you know

RossM · Post by **RossM** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:23 am

I used Agriline's Empire Blue on my New Performance Super Dexta and it looks good to me, it seems to be a lighter blue which apparently the later dexta's were.

landowner · Post by **landowner** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:44 pm

Thanks for that comforting statement, no paint wasted now

Does your nosecone follow the line of the bonnet or is it cocked up at the front by the way ?

Bensdexta · Post by **Bensdexta** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:06 pm

landowner wrote:Does your nosecone follow the line of the bonnet or is it cocked up at the front by the way ?

It should be straight. See
http://www.fordsontractorpages.nl/phpbb ... ght=bonnet

RossM · Post by **RossM** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:51 pm

mine is straight on the top as I believe it should be.

However my original wasn't but i do believe a large object, or person, had been dropped on it causing it to go like that.!