Mercedes UGH? grey sills

[angst]

Um, I'm wondering if Mercedes gave me the right paint code 7738 for sills on an early 190E I'm cleaning up:

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The dark grey that was on the car when I got it seemed smarter.

7738 is a light grey metallic applied without laquer according to PPG colour chart.

PS I bought Richbrook silver valve caps and this silver/grey colour takes the eye away from them. Does anyone recall these sills or have this light grey for their sills?

 

[television]

Yes that colour is much too light, the original grey was more like a faded black bumper grey, I have just looked at some on EBay USA.


Must say that from what we can see your car is looking good

 

[angst]

Yes that colour is much too light, the original grey was more like a faded black bumper grey, I have just looked at some on EBay USA.

Must say that from what we can see your car is looking good

Thanks Malcolm for the compliment.

Let this be a lesson to all purists and semi-purists like myself.

I spent all morning wearing 7 layers of clothes in the freezing cold to convert the sill from a fade black bumper grey to a light grey that looks awful with red (even tho' it goes with the chrome wheel arches ).


Careful shot not showing the rust before chrome wheel arches: