Countach, the ultimate supercar

Funny a trained professional can spot a 5mm change on a belt line on a full scale clay standing 10 meters away. Now if you can't see what 5inches does to a car than I'm afraid we can't help you.

 

If I'm not mistaken, isn't this a 180 degree flip of your suggestion that Gary painted bertone miura roadster the incorrect color a few years ago based on period photos?

Glad to see you come around on recognizing on how reflective lighting has on hue effects. Yes lighting plays a huge role, automotive colors are evaluated in-house under special lamps to mimic difference in sky tone. The same car under the London sky will look astonishingly different in LA.

What's underneath plays a significant role too, the material being sprayed will react different as well as the color or primer. All these must be factored in to get the desired effect

 

Thanks for the tip. Perhaps this weekend I can this to the reading list. First I need to find out what nauseum means..!

 

I agree with you if I was to judge the color by looking at the period photos, but how many of us saw even the car in the flesh or remember it before it was painted green 45 odd years ago?

The point is the opinions I reckon were based solely on photographs or memory. Gary based current color on the original sample taken from the original bertone paint job without the lighting effects of photographs. I'm not sure you can get more original then that or how you can banter an debate.

If your camp thinks it's too saturated now it's a good chance the original is even more so based on the nature of decades old fading paint.

I had a hunch that's what it meant....

 

Lamborghini I don't believe has Luci Del Bosco available on their selection list of colors, but recently when Mr. Winkelmann looked at this newly gorgeous Miura SV he so inspired that he promised the owner a sold-out Aventador SV in that color.

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Right it's always an option to pay up and get a paint to sample or a color from the by gone era...

 

are you saying thats #5100 ?
reason I ask is that every other source suggests its being rebuilt to its SVJ spec, and that one
shown has no brake ducts etc

 

Supposedly the SVJ story is incorrect. The owner received a confirmation of that from the factory.

 

I tried selecting photos of the car that appeared to be taken from a distance in order to reduce perspective distortion, so I'm well aware of this, hence "unscientific". Feel free to provide better photos. I'm not "taking any side" in this matter, I'm simply trying to provide information.

I did the same exercise based on wheelbase (2450 mm), and ended up with the same wheel measurements (0.1 inch accuracy) in all except the B/W photo - here the rim diameter was calculated to be 15.6 inches. I haven't uploaded these photos, as I don't wish to waste my file upload space.

The Geneva 1971 press release gives these measurements:

4100 mm L
1850 mm W
1040 mm H
2450 mm WB

 

At Concorso and in and around Pebble in a little over a week keep an eye out for my friend George from Canada who will be around in his 5000S Countach that is freshly (and may I say VERY well restored). Red on black with wing this car was long hidden for ages and George did a great job restoring it and this will be its first public appearance. Sorry but I do not know the VIN.

 

I have no issues whether they are valuable or not. The problem with the color slide is no matter what the quality its is is that it will ALWAYS be affected by the subjects surroundings i.e , clouds, sky tone, ground tone or photographic studio,reflective element etc... or simply the time of day. This holds true if you take the picture today or 40 years ago.

No matter how u spin it the proper way to color match is to paint a range of swatches on the same material, place them next to original in the same enviroment then evaluate. I believe this is what any quality restoration house would do.

You said you saw the sample and its lighter, which may very well be the case. At the core of all of this what I vehemently disagree with you is you are saying is more accurate to match the color photos (let's take 40yr equation out of it) than the actual sample in hand.

I must say you are persistent at this...

Ps for the record they moved beyond years ago from RGB to CMYK for more color accuracy !