touch up paint

[JHertzman@domain.elided]

 In AD7-760 Kevin Xpertcool asks whether anyone out there knows where those 
neat little jars of touch-up paint matched to the car's color can still be 
found.

The touch-up paint was a standard Alfa part, with an Alfa part number, and 
you should be able to order it from any Alfa dealer. In the mid-eighties the 
format for the part number was 10000.90XXX.0000, where XXX was replaced with 
the three-digit AR color codes; AR 842 bronze metallic 10000.90842.0000, AR 
103 ivory 10000.90103.0000, AR 219 racing green 10000.90219.0000 and so 
forth. Of course Fiat threw out the Alfa part numbering system in favor of 
Fiat's numbering which has a different logic, if any; the AR 776 of my wife's 
164 has a touch-up paint part number 0060707925, but the dealer should be 
able to convert an Alfa-system part number to a Fiat number.

If no luck with a USA dealer, I would try the UK or a continental source; 
postage on a one-ounce tube of touch-up paint should not be a problem. 

Several people in the past have suggested finger-nail polish; lacquer, widely 
available in many shades, in small quantities. Probably easier with reds than 
other colors, but these days who knows? Nobody in MY family, fer sure.

John H.

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