B5 Blue Owners -- Your Input is Requested!

My opinion is that it has too much metal flake in it (sparkle) from what I see in the close up pictures.

My B5 car is still in the paint shop and was already repainted before that, so I can't get any good original paint to match it to.

Have you tried to contact Chrysler and see if they have any of the old color masters available? If they don't have any of the old ones, they may have some of the "new" ones that were on the new style Challenger. Any supplier that supplied a body colored part to Chrysler should have a color master sample to match. Their is a "nominal" - mid shade and tolerance allowed "a little darker/a little lighter".

Back in the mid 90's when we were launching a sport model truck (with painted bumpers and grille), the trucks were built without grilles and bumpers at the factory. Then sent to another supplier to put on the grille, bumpers, and stripes. One of the colors (I think it was green) the bumpers and grille didn't match the paint on the body. They called in the color masters from design studio and put them beside the parts to see who was off color.... It was the body! (oh crap!). They scrapped that truck and made another one, and everything matched better.

My dad special ordered a 98 Grand Cherokee with the 5.9L in it. It was only made in three colors. His was put on hold for a while because the grille supplier had trouble getting the white grille to match the color master. It took 2-3 months for them to figure it out and then build his truck.

There are color masters available from Chrysler for their suppliers to use for matching the paint for the parts that they supply to them. Maybe you can convince them to send you a set...