If the customer chose Red Pepper from the colour chart, we can see from the chart that that is paint code ‘X’ and hence, paint code ‘X’ shows up stamped on the compliance plate for the car, as below.
Ford of Australia was a large company, and Ford worldwide was huge, and they supplied many vehicles to many companies which were painted in what could be termed ‘corporate colours’, in other words, a colour that was synonymous with that commercial organisation. Ford maintained a huge list of these colours based on Dulux formulae, and while they were usually restricted to vehicles supplied to the commercial organisations, occasionally, deliberately or by accident, these colours slipped out into the wider world.
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