Help me create a Saab paint guide

Jeremy,

If you can create one as comprehensive as my

site, that'd be sweet!!!

I can help if you need it

SG

The site I use when I want to refer to colour codes, etc. is "

". If you are very lucky you can find paintmanufacturer colour chip charts specifically for Saab's. I've got a fewDulux ones for classic 900's dating from about 1981 to 1986 but some of themdon't include all the colour options for the particular build year. Notquite sure why, but they make a good reference for me to use when I getasked to see if a colour is original or not. Regards,

Craig.

Craig,

Perhaps Steven in New Zealand could give us some publicity on trollhattensaab.net for others to help with this Saab paint guide online. Any idea of a domain address?

or something???

I think it is soo cool that Craig is a big Saab Enthusiast in Australia and Steven is as well in New Zealand and both have great Saab sites on the internet!

SG

I also found a site that produces touch up paint for cars. You input the make and year and it will list the colors used in that model year. They also provide the codes, however they start at 1994. Some colors for the C900, such as Edwardian Gray and Slate Blue, have been retired. Saab also apparently retired several classic colors between '94 to '05 while introducing new ones. For example, Saab has several shades of red in four different paint types, and it is the same for about every color except black (color code #170 by the way). They even have two different shades of white.

Jeremy

Well that's up to Steve to decide on - I'm sure if he's approached with a reasonable idea he'll consider it.

If there was a definite need to have a Saab-specific paint website then a special domain would be a good idea, but I don't really see the need for a site just doing paint codes, etc. for Saab's as places like paintscratch.com and others already handle all the paint codes used by Saab's and many other makes of European car.

A simple guide page though would be good. Maybe even something like a spreadsheet-type table layout with one page for each Saab car group.

Thanks for the compliment. Just trying to help out where I can and offer a perspective that's Australian-focused which anyone else is more than welcome to contribute to. No commercial aspirations whatsoever in my Saab websites.

Craig.

I have a basic paint guide up now, in PDF. It is just missing the colors listed below. Any othe paint colors that you can come up would be helpful!

Jeremy

Jeremy Brown wrote:

in article nnb_f.3887$ snipped-for-privacy@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net, Jeremy Brown at snipped-for-privacy@att.net wrote on 09/04/2006 18:20:

... Just found this ...

Paul

1989 900 Turbo S

Cool, thanks Paul, I actually hit another site with basically much of the same info. This will hep me complete the numbering. Here is what I was able to put together:

It is best viewed on a better quality tube monitor, and printed on a quality color laser printer that can do Pantone rated color reproduction.

Jeremy

Paul Halliday wrote: