Source for swatches of OEM colors?

[lilcraigford]

Is there a good source - or how do you guys go about getting swatches of OEM colors?

There are a few colors off of a couple of cars I would like to compare. Internet pictures aren't really doing it and it might be kind of tough to track down examples of each vehicle.

I do have the color codes. That was the easy part, haha.

[mdprovee]

I went to a local automotive paint supplier. He had several books with samples of every car make by year. The examples were small 1" strips, but it helped me.

I picked a few out, and had them sprayed on a test panel to see how it looked.