Use the code number on the paint chart when you order a reproduction data plate and at least all the numbers match. Just pick your favorite original color from the paint code chart above and buy your paint. If there's just no way to find your original 1967 Mustang colors and at the very least, you want an originally available choice and a matching data plate there's still hope. If there's just no way to do it, then your only other alternative for matching paint at the paint store, is probably using your digital camera if you have one and take a picture of the color to see if you can match it up at the store.įortunately, there are not that many choices that are similar to the 1967 Mustang colors, so the job should be fairly easy to zero in on your original color. If your car is in no condition to get to the paint store, you might try to find some loose piece of painted sheet metal or maybe even pull off a paint chip to take to your auto parts or paint store, where you can compare it to factory color chip pages like you see above. Other places that you can check, which likely would never have seen a repaint job, are the transmission and differential area behind your back seats where the metal rises up over the rear end, flowing into the trunk area. If your car has had extensive floor pan replacement, then you may or may not be able to find the original color under the carpet beneath the foot areas or seat riser panel. Fortunately, Ford sprayed a fairly large area of the inside of the car with the exterior color.Īs long as you have at least, some original floor pan or interior sheet metal, it's usually possible to find something painted in the factory original paint color. Chances are, you can still figure out what the original paint code and color was by doing a little digging in various parts of the car. If your door was replaced with another from an auto wrecker or other parts car, you may either have no data plate, or the wrong one on the drivers door making it difficult to figure out your 1967 Mustang colors. The Mustang Lonestar limited, was created specifically for the Lone-star state giving Texas Ford dealers their own limited production special, like the Ford's Mustang "California Special" with a hope that it would help stimulate a sales year that got off to a rocky start.īoth of these "diamond" colors are tints of a basic white and unless seen side by side with a plain white or the Wimbledon White you may be hard pressed to tell the difference.ĭiamond Green Code H - late 67 carried into 68ĭiamond Blue Code N - late 67 carried into 68ĭata Plate Decoding And No Data Plate Solutions Painted in Blue Bonnet, a non standard sky blue paint, Ford combined the new color with unique gold Texas shaped badges. The limited edition high country special was available in Three non-standard colors, including Columbine Blue, Aspen Gold and Timberline Green. It was also a available on the 1967 Thunderbird and made slightly deeper in color later, as seen on the Mach l. One of the rare, but interesting 1967 Mustang colors, similar to the paint on the 1969 Mach 1 seen above, Ford's Dusk Rose paint, was often referred to as Playboy Pink, after Playboy Magazine's 1964 PLaymate of the year received one as a gift. Here are the Basic 1967 Mustang Colors and Paint Codes:
Several new paint codes appeared as previews to what would become widely available shades on the 1968 Mustang cars.
So whether you are planning a freshening up of your Mustang's exterior or are in the middle of a restoration project and trying to figure out what color your car was painted when it left the factory, the guide below can be your friend.ġ967 Ford Mustang Paint Colors Chart - PPG (not a project he or I had planned for his car at this point.) The only way to tell, was to get the exterior paint color information from the car's data plate grab a sample and check it, or just repaint the whole car. Thinking I was very smart finding a used set in exactly the same color as his car, I pulled off the old ones and bolted on the new fenders, only to find out that although both the old fenders and the new ones from a distance were the same color, they were not in fact the same color, and at this point I wasn't sure exactly which of the two were the original 1967 Mustang colors.Īfter that surprise, I wasn't even sure whether the paint on either pieces were even the original colors I would find from the paint color codes, as the car had obviously been repainted at some point in time. My son's newly acquired 1967 pony car had some bubbles in the front fenders which turned out to be second or third round repairs that just couldn't be repaired again.
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