'68 Coronet R/T
Oldtimer
You da man! Thank you!
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ssanto
Glad to hear it is sorted out and you've got some more Dark Red.
So if I called and ordered some new paint chips, I'd be able to see the dark red now?
So if I called and ordered some new paint chips, I'd be able to see the dark red now?
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Tinman
Got chips couple days ago. Thought I was going Ford race red, didn't like the orange cast. Wanted clean darker red.
Spi red(69 Mach) , very bright and clean(comparing off my chip books). The med & dark are not bad , was leaning that way, still very deep clean reds.
But I get compliments all the time on my 05 Gt Mustang(vert) in Screaming yellow, never thought that either.
By the way it won't have the original gold -black mach stripe. Will cut mach repo stripe mask on vinyl cutter , and paint in silver or white on black.
We'll see, LOL. 410 windsor. waiting to jump in engine compartment too.
Spi red(69 Mach) , very bright and clean(comparing off my chip books). The med & dark are not bad , was leaning that way, still very deep clean reds.
But I get compliments all the time on my 05 Gt Mustang(vert) in Screaming yellow, never thought that either.
By the way it won't have the original gold -black mach stripe. Will cut mach repo stripe mask on vinyl cutter , and paint in silver or white on black.
We'll see, LOL. 410 windsor. waiting to jump in engine compartment too.
Not until I get time to paint them, should be next week if all goes well, sorry but this is the time of year where time is a premium trying to keep up with production and spent probably 100 hours on insurance renewals.
That red most likely is within a shade of 20+ reds out there and that has been my goal with the reds from day one is a replacement to as many colors as possible when a restoration is done.
As you can see in the pictures no need to make the Mars red and it looks like from all my samples we have even candy apple covered but would have to mix a little medium with the dark for perfection as candy looks slightly orange.
Looks like last red needed will be Ford 2017 Ruby red (RR) code, I have a quart on order to start playing. Along with 2017 Ferrari Blue, 67 corvettes Marina Blue and Viper Yellow.
The Ferrari blue can be mixed with the Marina blue to get any shade you want.
As you can see in the pictures no need to make the Mars red and it looks like from all my samples we have even candy apple covered but would have to mix a little medium with the dark for perfection as candy looks slightly orange.
Looks like last red needed will be Ford 2017 Ruby red (RR) code, I have a quart on order to start playing. Along with 2017 Ferrari Blue, 67 corvettes Marina Blue and Viper Yellow.
The Ferrari blue can be mixed with the Marina blue to get any shade you want.
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'68 Coronet R/T
Oldtimer
LONG LIVE THE SPI DARK RED!!! 
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Danny23
I'm still confused, is dark red going away? It's still on the price list.
It was the exact color I wanted for my pickup.
You painting your truck any time soon after yiu get the paint
crashtech
Combo Man & Mod
Probably not, my stuff always comes last!
crashtech
Combo Man & Mod
Hold the phone, you might make RR!? WOW!
Plus 2 blues and Viper Yellow, color me impressed too, great news.
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Danny23
I red i really like is HOK blue bloid red i comoare it to SPI red tgey look similar but in the sun spi is a little orange and the hok is red
Lol same here shooting for next summer
Lol same here shooting for next summer
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ssanto
There's this Lotus dealership that I drive past every day on my way home from work. They've got this Lotus Evora in Ardent Red that I really like the color on. I stopped today to compare that car with the Red and Medium Red paint chips I got. To my surprise, it appeared to be a perfect match to the Medium Red.
It is a bit tricky to compare because the reds look different in different lights. But when I got the paint chip sitting on the car's body panel so that they were in the same light, the two colors looked identical.
It was very helpful to see a car that was basically the same as SPI Medium Red rather than just staring at the paint chip. It would be cool if SPI could put together a mapping table of their colors to factory colors we can go see on the road. I find it difficult to get the feel for a color by just looking at a chip. And looking at pictures on the internet is also deceiving (especially with reds and oranges). I kinda need to see it on a car in real life before I can pull the trigger on it.
In the pictures below you can also see the SPI Red that looks just a bit lighter and the Ardent Red and SPI Medium Red look the same. The color matched between the Ardent Red and SPI Medium Red in every angle that I could look at it in.
It is a bit tricky to compare because the reds look different in different lights. But when I got the paint chip sitting on the car's body panel so that they were in the same light, the two colors looked identical.
It was very helpful to see a car that was basically the same as SPI Medium Red rather than just staring at the paint chip. It would be cool if SPI could put together a mapping table of their colors to factory colors we can go see on the road. I find it difficult to get the feel for a color by just looking at a chip. And looking at pictures on the internet is also deceiving (especially with reds and oranges). I kinda need to see it on a car in real life before I can pull the trigger on it.
In the pictures below you can also see the SPI Red that looks just a bit lighter and the Ardent Red and SPI Medium Red look the same. The color matched between the Ardent Red and SPI Medium Red in every angle that I could look at it in.
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ssanto
x2 on the brownish of the BMW red... I stopped by a BMW dealership on the way home to compare it to my paint chips and it was a bit too muddy for me. I'm going to try to stop by a Mercedes dealership to check out the Mars Red so that I can get an idea of what SPI Dark Red looks like at full scale.
Andy bought his wife a new GT convert and its Ruby red, I love the color and with that color, I truly believe we will now be able to replace 90% of the reds from the 50's to 70's on a full restoration.
None of these colors are made for blending of crash jobs.
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Thanks for the pictures any of my reds can be tinted by mixing say dark with the spi red to make the color perfect, now take the BMW red it looks about the same as our dark red + 1/2 shade darker but in the sun you can see a brown huge witch tells me they darkened it with a shot of green
so a dab of any good base tint of a gram or so to a gallon would get it right there.
One vette restorer has taken out pure white and for the 50's and 60's adds the tints out of the formula from a majors gallon and buys the tints for the proper match with to our white.
Roman red he blends a couple of our reds, not sure what ones.
My colors will change more in light for the main reason, I'm not adding filler colors like black and whit to get coverage at a for a lower cost and using more of the expensive color to counter this.
BEST example is my orange, looks dead nuts to huger orange but in the light it will flip a number of ways and to me one of the most beautiful oranges out there.
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