help identifying a color code / name

#3657 GT.
Verde Tevere 16223 MM (Max Meyer).

Marcel Massini

 

So I have just painted my 1979 vespa in 16223 Verde Tevere, having been inspired by the famous Ferrari SWB in that colour. I did a lot of research into this colour, and discovered that it is a PPG / Nexa Autoshade colour and was brought back into production in around 2014 at around the time the SWB was repainted in that colour by DK engineering. It is only available as a water based paint and not 2k. Here are some pics of the scooter that I have been slowly building up since the painting.
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I realize that pictures produced/reproduced digitally can vary greatly from true colors, but these colors don’t look the same at all to me.

Nice job on the Vespa, by the way.

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It's definitely Verde Tevere. I agree the difference is too much. I don't think that the Ferrari above is verde tevere. Even when repainted and on show in Joe Macari, it is a slightly different shade to the vespa... To add to the confusion, Verde Tevere is a Maserati colour and this is the only picture I can find on line of a 1960s Mazza in that colour. Much closer to my vespa than the Ferrari.
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So the question remains - what colour is the SWB Ferrari? It is wide reported as verde tevere

 

Yep that's the colour of my scooter! I really like it, but like you say it is not the Ferrari colour

 

Thanks. I'm enjoying building it. It's absolutely not the same colour. Working on the premise that the SWB is a Maserati colour, I have googled others. Closest we get is Verde chiaro, but that's not it, or verde aqua, but that's not it either. It's a total mystery. I even ran DK engineering last year but they were not very helpful. Verde Agua in this link. https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/482377810088516304/ Verde Chiaro is the 512 attached
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Even if you see the pictures gallery of the 3657 Swb on Barchetta website ( http://www.barchetta.cc/english/All.Ferraris/Detail/3657GT.250GT.htm ), you will notice that the car colour changes depending from the lights.
In any case always different from the vespa's one.

 

It reminds me of the colour of te 488 Pista created by a chap named tiposerofourzero on the gramz. He created the colour Verde Francesca, which obviously is not the colour of the 250 SWB, but mentions inspiration taken from Verde Tevere. It seems the same mix-up happened, because it looks a lot closer to Verde Medio or Verde Militar. The Maserati Verde Tevere is not the same colour as the Verde Tevere ascribed to the Ferrari.

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Ok but the SWB was repainted by DK Engineering in around 2014 so there must be that exact colour on a database somewhere - the question is what is it?

 

Except that look at this picture of my vespa in the paint shop after it was painted. The colour looks very different no in this shot, no? much closer to the Ferrari in this light.
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All, but especially brighter & lighter metallic colors always look different, not only depending on lighting (artificial, natural, shades, etc), camera (equipment, exposure timing, etc), shot angle, etc, but they often appear differently from person to person based on their individual perceptions of colors (i.e. everyone sees colors slightly different from each other).

And when you add the replication of that color via digital or print media image...
... or conditions & equipment used to apply (amount of layers, mix, brush or spray, etc) it, ...
... further from agreeable outcome you get.

 

Ok good points. But if you look at (a) my scooter (b) the scrap metal painted above and (c) the Maserati painted in verde tevere above you can see they are the same colour. And you can see they are different from the SWB colour.... The SWB has more blue in it and less yellow

 

The picture in post #1 looks more like verde medio to me, but again, electronic pictures can be deceiving.

 

I've found pictures of Pininfarina's MGB Ex 234 prototype from 1965. It looks to be exactly the same colour as the SWB. Compare the pics. However I cannot find any information about what colour the MG is!!
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And in a different light - they are also very very similar
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There are enough studio-shots of 3657GT available to see that it is not in the more fluorescent bright green-mustard of the Maserati colour Verde Tevere but more similar to Verde Medio. Finding two pictures with dubious lighting where they look similar is only accidental... It seems that the easiest way to find the paint information would be to contact DK Engineering?

 

I contacted DK Engineering but they were not very helpful.

 

Ask Webster & Lancaster Ltd (https://websterandlancaster.co.uk/), it was them who actually carried out the repaint.

Paul