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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 03:45 PM
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touch up painting help

I have an 84 white gsl-se. I had to fix some light rust around the car and right now it's got rust nuetralizer primer stuff over the fixed areas and I was just wondering what i should use to paint these spots

I'm not going for professional or anything just want to make it not so ugly

anyway i went to Advance and they had a very limited color selection, does anyone know the name of the mazda white and if I can just get it in a spray bottle?
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 03:49 PM
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auto zone checker kragen usually has a book with the paint codes for most cars made. then they usually have them in spray cans
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 06:56 PM
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Some paint supply locations can custom mix any color, and put it into a spray can.
There were 2-3 different shades of white used on the 1st gen, so your best bet is to get the paint code off the metal plate under the hood.
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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 10:24 PM
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Professional autobody paint supplier is your best bet for primer, paint and color matching, unless you want to do it again next year.
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Old Mar 9, 2007 | 08:34 AM
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Try paintscratch.com. It's about $25 for a rattlecan of factory matched spraypaint. Better paint and better match than the $8 duplicolor from the autostore.
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