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Originally Posted by jb-ob
M-1221 Flat Black Instrument Black Enamel 4-15-30
EVERY item (cloth, paint, glue, thinners, etc.) Ford purchased to produce his cars was assigned an 'M' number which listed the 'General Requirements' that an outside supplier must meet or be rejected.
The basis of the Judging Standards comes from Benson Ford Archives of factory blue prints and these M number lists, not "based on cars we have seen" illogic.
100 years later the shading question is mute, but now you know what Ford specified.
No different than Ford delivered most cars with black wall tires but today you would never know it
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I guess I don't totally understand? The Judging Standards which is derived from many sources, including the Benson Ford Archives, mentions many shades of black: gloss, semi-gloss, satin, raven, japan and very specific applications for each black. For whatever reason they chose satin black to describe the black insert of the dash panel, not flat black or raven, or black, or semi-gloss or gloss?