Diamond white paint

[Brenda1978]

So, my 1980 fezza is diamond white paint code b. So I put some rattle cans and it came out a creamy off white. So I got another brand and same thing. 

I know paint can fade and looking in door shuts it looks a brighter white. I had some white gloss appliance paint and it's a good match.

The guy around the corner has a mint capri ghia 1975 and his is diamond white and very white but it was painted  few years ago and I hope to catch up with him soon.

Any thoughts.

[DT36]

Get a bucket of warm water and mix it with a scoop of  Persil Automatic.  It'll get your white whiter:

 

[Ray]

there are multiple shades of diamond white from over the years, but, diamond white is a creamy off white (dirty white if you like), the one thing its not is a bright white, i doubt any rattle can off the shelf will look right, it was used from the early 70s right thru to around 2006, to my limited knowledge, i had 2 mk6 transits a 2003 and 2005, both different shades of it, and a friend has a diamond white mk1 escort, again its a different shade, and no touch up paint looks right, from late 2006 the transit went to Frozen white, which is not creamy, could be worth a try, dont expect anything from halfords to match anything, you might as well be picking up black for all iits worth

on a later mk1 escort, the paint code, usually a single letter or number, is followed by a number, this is the designed sales year, and makes a difference to the shade, so 14 is miami blue 74, but 15 is miami blue 75, early 73 mk1 purple is just F, but post march it F3, then F4, not sure how the fiesta was coded tho

Then you have the other problem when matching paint, older cars used a different paint type, ford were using acrylic and cellulose in the 70s and 80s, today its water based with laquer, and paints are difficult to colour match, especially metalic, you can get the old paints made up in small qtys in specialist places

if you want it right, youll need to take the car or a painted part to someone who can mix it up exactly for you, but if its a very bright white and the plate says diamond, i suspect its probably been re sprayed at some stage, and no longer diamond white

[Vista Estate]

Vauxhall did a very bright white when they released the 3rd generation Calvalier @Ray and I know that some used this instead of the Ford white.