What brand paint did Shasta use?

Don't know the brand of paint but most cars in late 50's early 60's were painted with nitrocellulose lacquer because it dries quickly and is easy to work with. Some companies began using single stage enamels in early-mid 60's. In any case, you just need to find a good photo of the EXACT color you want and take it to a good auto paint vendor, they can scan with a chromatgraph and can computer match your color. Your choice will be what type of paint system to use. Different paint companies all use the same chemistry, so a single stage enamel will be the same no matter who you buy from. I like using a urethane basecoat/clear coat system because the base coat dries quickly and is a matte finish, and the clear coat is what makes the gloss snd shine really pop, plus it can be finessed if runs or mistakes happen, without touching the color coat.

We just hit a learning curve on our Aljo canned ham: the paint on the door side ran. Sanded and prepped, re-sprayed and still had a few runs! GRRR. We used enamel and it looks nice but am disappointed after days of prep. We have to re-think the paint options. Spendy to do urethane but might be worth it. Our tiny 57 Corvette trailer cost over 600 bucks for automotive paint.

I buy at a local paint shop called Cajun Color, and I got a paint kit with everything ready to go for 300 dollars... a gallon of white urethane sealer ready to spray, a gallon of white base coat ready to spray, a half gallon of the turquoise ready to spray and a gallon of 4.2 VOC clear with a quart of hardner (1:4mix ratio) If you are going to be painting much it is WELL worth the time to pick up a good HVLP gun--a used one on ebay can be had for decent price--and add that to your bag of tricks.