1955 IMPERIAL PAINT COLORS

The factory data plate is a rich source of information about the car to which it is attached. It is imprinted when the car is ordered and corresponds to the factory record on microfiche. There remains the problem of deciphering the data stamped on the plate, for codes changed every year, and the idea itself of uniform coding had not been formed. Codes after 1962 can be easily obtained from the MoPar "guru" Galen Govier, but for earlier years it’s a different question. In 1955 it appears that the data plate was attached to the firewall, behind the brake booster.

PAINT (PNT)

This code is on the plate attached to the radiator crossbrace under the heading PNT or Paint. The first table concerns single-color paint schemes, the second two-tone schemes. I have the corresponding PPG codes and will supply them on e-mail request to me at webmaster AT amerisud.fr

IMPERIAL solid paint

Code Color Code Color
1 Black 5 Wisteria blue
6 Rhapsody Blue 7 Crown Imperial blue
11 Porcelain green 12 Shantung Green poly
13 Jade green poly 14 Crown Imperial green
16 Skyline Gray 17 Embassy gray poly
20 Canyon tan 25 Tango red
26 Crown Imperial maroon 27 Navajo orange
30 Platinum 31 Nugget Gold poly
32 Sunburst yellow * Desert sand

 

IMPERIAL Sedan two tones

Code Upper color lower color Code Upper color lower color
58 Platinum Black 59 Black Platinum
60 Embassy gray poly Black 61 Rhapsody Blue Wisteria blue
62 Wisteria blue Rhapsody Blue 63 Shantung Green poly Porcelain green
64 Porcelain green Shantung Green poly 65 Embassy gray poly Skyline Gray
66 Skyline Gray Embassy gray poly      

 

IMPERIAL Newport 2 tones

Code Upper color lower color Code Upper color lower color
67 Black Tango red 68 Tango red Black
71 Desert sand Canyon tan 72 Canyon tan Desert sand
73 Platinum Nugget Gold poly 74 Nugget Gold poly Platinum
75 Platinum Jade green poly 77 Platinum Rhapsody Blue
78 Rhapsody Blue Platinum      

 

SCH: within a few days of the actual emergence from the factory. The date sequence is American month, day, year, so 1214 means Dec. 14.

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