Renault Paint codes in Australia (sticky?)

[vivid]

I don't have easy access to my paint chips (no idea where I put them) and poking around the internet I have had little luck putting a list together.

Was hoping the Renaults trusts out there might post what they have so we can organise our chips and codes a little.


I guess once we have something collated might be a good sticky, or even in the model specific threads.
Thoughts appreciated.


Maybe we lost some things in the big crash of the 2010s but there are a scattering across Aussiefrogs of things like this, so I'll start with an R8 paint chip chart from 1963, but I am not sure how useful these codes might be to places like Autobahn.

(NB not very useful) example;
CHAMONIX WHITE
99% WHITE,
1% YELLOW OCHRE, BLACK & RED OXIDE

but white, yellow ochre, black, red oxide all mean different things. Actual chips can be spectrographed on a paint mixer, but that isn't helpful if you don't have a chip.

What codes would be useful? Dulux, Dupont Berger? The old school tint's formulas don't seem that useful unless you have an old school paint specialist.

The 10S was introduced in May 1970, and were the final batches of R1190 Renaults assembled in Australia.

Colours: Alpine White, Barossa Red, Bathurst Blue, Daffodil Yellow, Sunburst Brown, Tannen Green. The black side stripe being a delete option.

Alpine White ??????????
Barossa Red ??????????
Bathurst Blue ??????????
Daffodil Yellow ??????????
Sunburst Brown ??????????
Tannen Green ??????????

Based on the excellent work by Simon on Renaults in Australia and the book of the same name by Tony and Pedr Davis, the models and their derivatives assembled in Australia were:

760 or 750 (1949 - 1962)
Prairie/Colorale (1952-?)
Fregate (1952 - 1958)
Dauphine (1956 - 1963)
R4 (1962 – 1966)

R8 (1963 – 1970)
R10 (1966 - 1971)
R16 (1968 - 1977)
R12 (1970 - 1981)

R18 (1980 – 1981) -------- Really? I didn't think R18 and R20s were assembled here.
R20 (1980 – 1981)

 

[simca1100]

Yes R18 and Series 1 R20 were assembled here.

I had both - an 18 wagon and then a very late series 1 20. Both were Australian assembled.
My series 1 20 was one of the last Aussie cars, apparently it had some Series 2 components which caused headaches when getting spare parts. Must have been made up out of whatever bits they could get their hands on?
Great car, it had 480,000 + km on the clock when I sold it and it had more life left in it, engine/clutch/gearbox had never been apart and was still perfect. Some rust though.

 

[vivid]

Yes R18 and Series 1 R20 were assembled here.

I had both - an 18 wagon and then a very late series 1 20. Both were Australian assembled.
My series 1 20 was one of the last Aussie cars, apparently it had some Series 2 components which caused headaches when getting spare parts. Must have been made up out of whatever bits they could get their hands on?
Great car, it had 480,000 + km on the clock when I sold it and it had more life left in it, engine/clutch/gearbox had never been apart and was still perfect. Some rust though.

how awesome it would be to have an R18 wagon. I wonder how many (if any) survived?

 

[simca1100]

I loved my 18 wagon, I was a little disappointed with the seats (not as supportive as the tombstone seats in a 12) but otherwise it was fantastic.
My new partner at the time (now 36 years together) drove a 78 Corolla and thought he didn't like driving because the Corolla was so fidgety / wandery on the road and exhausting to drive any distance. After driving the Renault 18 on a country drive for a while he said "it's so easy to drive, it almost drives itself. It just goes where you point it!" I said "it's called handling. That's why I like these funny cars." He's a convert, the magic of the 18 did it. Unfortunately I rolled it, so it was replaced with the 20. (heavily loaded trailer got severe swaying,it steered the car up and embankment and flipped the car.)

Shame, I haven't seen an 18 wagon (or sedan) for years.

The 20 was another level. It was sooo comfortable. We covered huge distances in that car. It felt like it was tailor-made to fit me. Super reliable, too.

 

[monoposto]

What a timely post.

I've been after the Renault 341 "Alpine Bleu Metallic" and am struggling to come up with something for my local paint shop. Would anyone happen to have the paint code for this color?

 

[vivid]

Here's a list of the European Renault paint codes from around the period.
Unfortunately the descriptions leave a lot to be desired:
The whole list is about 650 lines so I just posted the ones from the 70's

MAKE	NAME	Code.	YEAR		TYPE
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BLANC MEYE	EWT	1978	1993	SOLID
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	COSMIC	L006	1978	1980	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	HEIDELBERG BLUE	L008	1978	1980	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	LIGHT BLUE	LG	1978	1989	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	JADE GREEN	1775	1979	1985	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BEIGE	1777	1979	1982	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	CASCADE BLUE	1778	1979	1985	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	INCENDIE ROUGE AFNOR	1801/752	1976	-	SOLID
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BLUE	423	1975	-	SOLID
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BLUE	457	1973	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	ORANGE	366	1976	1989	SOLID
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	AGATE	367	1979	1980	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BLEU ARDOISE	422	1977	1991	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BLEU ROYAL	421	1965	1977	SOLID
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BLUE	407	1975	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BROWN	113	1975	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	MARRON GLACE	122	1979	1980	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BRONZE	123	1978	1985	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BLUE IRISE	1509	1978	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BEIGE	151	1977	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	DORE GREEN	1510	1977	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	ASH GREY	1514	1978	1987	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	VERT TORRENT	1394	1978	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	AZURE BLUE	1331	1977	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BEIGE	134	1979	1981	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	ROUGE CORAIL	1344	1972	-	SOLID
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	PIERRE DE LUNE	1383	1978	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BLUE	1461	1978	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	GREEN SILVER	1474	1978	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BEIGE NACRE	1384	1978	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	INCENDIE ROUGE AFNOR	752/1801	1976	-	SOLID
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	GREEN	953	1973	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	ALGUE	976	1978	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	GREY	602	1975	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	SLATE BLUE	475	1978	-	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	BLEU ALPINE	485	1978	1985	METALLIC
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	RED	733	1973	-	SOLID
RENAULT-PEUGEOT	GREY	651	1973	-	METALLIC

paint code swatches and charts

I don't know if it's useful but I have a bunch of swatches I've been working with creating a DB of things.

I also have a few swatches of my own matching the colours of my Renaults.

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but might help someone find something..
may well do with it's own thread.

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Hey Vivid. That's the bloomin lot. Well done. It's very useful. I can compare the colours of the oranges of 311 and 331

Glad I could help.. Google must be getting smarter..

Just did a search for "311 orange renault" and this page came up.

https://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/colour_swatch_renault_1970

blatently ripped for my collection.

 

[21571]

Don't forget the Alpines!