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Topic starter
25/04/2025 5:22 pm
Limited to 90 pieces. It's in a beautiful color.
STM5860X
1958 Cadillac Coupe DeVille - Meridian Taupe
25/04/2025 7:45 pm
"Limited to 90 pieces."
HA! That may have been actual 1:1 production numbers too; Google searches produced only ONE 1958 Cadillac in that color. 🤔 🤔
Karl Schnelle reacted
Topic starter
26/04/2025 9:11 am
@chris It is a factory color so it seems more examples would be out there. https://www.autocolorlibrary.com/pages/1958-Cadillac.html
John Kuvakas and Christopher Moroni reacted
26/04/2025 9:40 am
"It is a factory color so it seems more examples would be out there."
Oh, I KNOW it's a factory color .... but my 10-minute search effort yielded just one 1:1 example. 🤔 🤨 😐
John Kuvakas and Ed Davis reacted
Topic starter
26/04/2025 10:26 am
@chris I think that one is Alamo Beige Poly. I found a few examples which are pinker than this one.
26/04/2025 10:56 am
Actually Mark, this article calls it a 'gold' and that it is more desirable than Meridian Taupe.
https://www.streetsideclassics.com/vehicles/0499-tpa/1958-cadillac-coupe-deville
John Kuvakas and Christopher Moroni reacted
26/04/2025 10:58 am
THIS one is 'said' to be Meridian Taupe:
https://www.uniqueclassiccars.com/vehicles/5373/1958-cadillac-coupe-deville
John Kuvakas and Christopher Moroni reacted
26/04/2025 11:14 am
@perrone1 ...well, that appears different than the sample color and the picture I posted isn't correct. I guess I can't find ANY 1958 Cadillacs in Meridian Taupe. 😒 😒
John Kuvakas and Tony Perrone reacted
Topic starter
26/04/2025 11:29 am
@perrone1 Yes, I saw that one but thought it too pink compared to the color chart. Stamp usually gets the colors correct, as far as I recall, so I'm hoping it will be closer to the chip on AutoColorLibrary.
Topic starter
26/04/2025 1:28 pm
@perrone1 You are indeed correct, sir. Those whitewalls are outlandish.
Topic starter
26/04/2025 1:59 pm
Here is what I think is the real Meridian Taupe with many pictures.
https://www.californiaclassix.com/archive/58_Cadillac_c580.html
26/04/2025 5:45 pm
Two color chips, one from ACL, the other from Paintref.com
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
Topic starter
26/04/2025 6:39 pm
@jkuvakas The colors seem to be all over the map. The notice I received of the model shows a 1:1 like the pic and link I posted just above. It's not coming out till July so we'll have to wait and see.
26/04/2025 6:55 pm
Unfortunately, I don't have '58 Caddy color chips, but John K.'s post matches what I see online - closer in hue to the '58 Cadillac pic I posted, but I KNOW that's NOT Merdian Taupe.
- Mark's last pic looks more like the '56 color - Mountain Laurel, which "restorers" used to respray many late '50's Cadillacs turning them all into "pink Cadillacs."
- All that I can confirm is that two "pink" colors were offered in 1958: Tahitian Coral & Meridian Taupe - which looks like John K.'s pics - more of a brownish-pink.
- 🤪 😯 😬 🤪 😲
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