F6 Green?

[BG12]

I live in an area where Chevrolets and Mustangs are king. My 69 Bee is an orginal F6 paint car. I am always being asked or told what color my car is. I tell them F6 green which I know as Rallye Green. I always get isn't that Sublime or Green Light Go. No one seems to ever believe me when I call it Rallye Green. What do you call F6 green? I know it's not Sublime or Green Light Go.

 

[JB400]

One of the best shades of green that Dodge put on a car.

 

[eldubb440]

this ppg page lists a ralley green but it is not F6...… F6 is simply bright green poly...… weird

http://www.autocolorlibrary.com/aclchip.aspx?image=1969-Dodge-pg01.jpg

 

[rlem1977]

Yuup, the 1969 Dodge PPG Ditzler chart does show F6 as Bright Green Poly, Your Rallye Green is listed as #44032 with **999, indicating a special order spring color.

 

[91r/t]

That fender tag color looks lighter than F6 green to me does it not to anyone else? Maybe it is just the angle, but it looks more like a mint green.....hmmm. Below is a F6 green bee. His looks lighter on the shade on his tag.

 

[mikedonz]

I think this was an F6 car that sold at Mecum a couple years ago

 

[91r/t]

I think this was an F6 car that sold at Mecum a couple years ago

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That is definitely F6. Maybe it's his camera and a little faded. I know there is about 28 different shades of every color possible from a spray gun from personal painting experience.

 

[33 IMP]

I don't know which for sure, but one of those greens was the exact same formula used by gm on camaro and nova, and called "rallye green" by them. That may be why the chevy guys are asking, they think you stole their paint.

 

[R/T Boy 67]

According to Galen Govier, In 1969 F6 was called bright green metallic by Dodge, and rallye green by chrysler and plymouth. I do know that chrysler corp. did change the names for the same color on a regular basis.

 

[69b3rt]

69 dodge f6 green and 69 plymouth rally green are two different colors.

 

[33 IMP]

Now you made me look it up.
According to lift-off hood play ground color chart ( very well researched and lots of data), Plymouth rallye green code 97 was n/a on dodges in 69.
F6 was n/a on plymouths, called bright green metallic on dodges.
Iirc f6 was intro'd on a12 bees as one of only four colors initially available, later available on all dodges.
F6 is relatively common on a12 bees.(NOT common)
I still don't know which was the same as gm.
69b3rt is dead right.

 

[rlem1977]

 

[BG12]

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From this chart there is a lot of difference between bright green poly and rallye green. Thanks for sharing!

 

[BG12]

this ppg page lists a ralley green but it is not F6...… F6 is simply bright green poly...… weird

http://www.autocolorlibrary.com/aclchip.aspx?image=1969-Dodge-pg01.jpg

That is an awesome resource! Thanks for sharing.

 

[BG12]

That fender tag color looks lighter than F6 green to me does it not to anyone else? Maybe it is just the angle, but it looks more like a mint green.....hmmm. Below is a F6 green bee. His looks lighter on the shade on his tag.

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The color changes a lot depending on the lighting because of how much metallic is in it. With that said the paint is a weak point on the car. It was in the body shop for 3 years and suddenly most of the work got done in the last six months. I didn't want them to paint the car just do the body work. It is still in need of body work on the back and probably repainted. My goal at the time it went into body work was to make sure the car wasn't rotting anymore.

 

[33 IMP]

That is an awesome resource! Thanks for sharing.

Agreed, but don't take the color chips as gospel, they are approximations. The real resource is the paint codes which may be transferable to modern paint codes and paint. (The bahama yellow/butterscotch chip misses by about 47 shades).

 

[BG12]

That is definitely F6. Maybe it's his camera and a little faded. I know there is about 28 different shades of every color possible from a spray gun from personal painting experience.

It's a hard color to capture with phone camera. The paint on my car is pretty gritty too.

 

[91r/t]

It's a hard color to capture with phone camera. The paint on my car is pretty gritty too.

Agreed 100%

 

[33 IMP]

Agreed 100%

Are you ragging on his gritty paint??
Lol! (Not at your paint bg12, wish mine looked that good.)

 

[91r/t]

Are you ragging on his gritty paint??
Lol! (Not at your paint bg12, wish mine looked that good.)

No hahahaha! I was agreeing that its hard to capture a color with a camera! Sorry for the confusion.