'68 Coronet R/T
Oldtimer
You da man! Thank you!Dont worry about it made more today and will fill cans in morning.
You da man! Thank you!Dont worry about it made more today and will fill cans in morning.
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?
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.
Probably not, my stuff always comes last!You painting your truck any time soon after yiu get the paint
Hold the phone, you might make RR!? WOW!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.
Hold the phone, you might make RR!? WOW!
Probably not, my stuff always comes last!
Hold the phone, you might make RR!? WOW!
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.
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