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FJ5 Sublime (Dodge) / Limelight (Plymouth)

1970 high-impact lime green. Mid-year introduction, 1970 only. Dodge called it Sublime; Plymouth called it Limelight.

color swatch

#CCE64F

closest-approximation hex from the vocab. Real factory paint shifts under the sun and after fifty years; treat the chip as a starting point, not a match.

chemistry & process

Single-stage acrylic enamel chemistry

ForMatter holds the chemistry, application process, restoration paths, and where-to-buy for this paint generation. Plenum holds the codes; ForMatter holds the matter.

paint-supplier cross-references

  • Ditzler / PPG 71529Per mymopar.com paint chart.
  • DuPont 5095

Historic Ditzler / DuPont / PPG cross-references. Brand reformulations and supplier-side renumbering happen — verify against the current chart at your paint store before mixing.

FJ5 was part of Chrysler's 1970 high-impact paint program — vivid colors with names that shouted, designed to read at a stoplight. Like the rest of the high-impact set (Plum Crazy / In-Violet, HEMI Orange / TorRed, Go Mango / Vitamin C, Top Banana / Lemon Twist, Sassy Grass / Green Go, Panther Pink / Moulin Rouge), FJ5 carried different names on each marque's literature: Sublime on Dodge build sheets and dealer fact data, Limelight on Plymouth's. Same paint formulation; two divisional marketing words.

FJ5 is often confused with FJ6 (Sassy Grass / Green Go), which is a deeper saturated green introduced the same year. In person, the two read as different colors entirely — FJ5 luminous and citrus, FJ6 closer to a clean meadow green. The Dodge Garage retrospective on the high-impact program is a reliable reference for both naming and visual differentiation.

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