for my 1970 electro 12 I decided to paint the fly wheel screen and the PTO white as kind of a different touch. I also purchased a NOS head light delete plate for it that in the garage seemed to match all the decals and the white.

well...today I drove it outside for the first time and the white from the decals and the pure white spray can accents I put on do not match.

I cleaned off the wheels and they seem do match the decal color and the head light plate color.

my question is: does the 1970 electro 12 have the linen biege color? if not what is the type of white I should be using?

thanks

To the best of my knowledge. Wheel horse "white" is actually a cream-white color.

In the late '50's and '60's it was refered to as ivory. At some point in the late '60's early '70's it became know as Linen Beige. The only Horses I'm aware of that had true white wheels were the pewter colored Work Horses from the early '80's.

Benjamin Moore's "Sail Cloth" is pretty close. Not available in enamel per se, but I am pretty sure you can get it in a gloss exterior house paint.

My house has this sail cloth color for its trim.

does valspar make a version of this linen beige?

No one markets a specific match for the Wheel Horse "Linen Beige".

There are some other colors that match pretty closely, such as Ford "Wimbledon white", Cub Cadet beige, even some of the generic "Almonds" and "Antique whites are close. Be careful if you go into a paint store and ask if they can match "Linen Beige". G.M. and Subaru are now using a color they call Linen beige, but it is a metallic paint. I've not done a side by side of this new shade against the old but it looks close from what I've seen. I wonder what it would look like with the metal flake left out of the mix?

Or leave it in for some extra bling!