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Discussion in 'Vintage (thru 365 GTC4)' started by Daytonafan, Jul 29, 2007.

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  1. f308jack

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    #51 f308jack, Jul 12, 2009
    The Dino Blu looks spectacular.

    Grant, what's happening with the colour of your car? Is that why you are accumulating pics of different Blu's?
     
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  3. Wheels1

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    It might be Jack!
    Rosso Rubino is nice too.
    I should be collecting it and taking it to the paint shop on Fri. if they can fit it in.
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  4. Edward 96GTS

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    #54 Edward 96GTS, Jul 13, 2009
    the black daytona in reply #44 has 9 inch wheels on the front!?
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  5. Daytonafan

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    #55 Daytonafan, Jul 13, 2009
    I would agree that the Dino Blue is a darker shade. While my memory is a little hazy on the subject (as I was about three at the time) Dad and I both recall that the Daytona was originally a dark shade of metallic blue and the build sheets do say it was Dino Blue met.
     
  6. Daytonafan

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    #57 JazzyO, Jul 13, 2009
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    Guys, I disagree. I've been investigating Dino Blu Met (106-A-72) because it was my 365BB's original delivery colour. My research leads me to the colour attached here, which is clearly not the Dino Blu mentioned in the pics and posts above.


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  8. dretceterini

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    #58 dretceterini, Jul 13, 2009
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    Sorry guys, but IMO that color is not the greatest (TOO purple)! A Daytona, IMO, looks best in a very dark blue, black, dark burgandy, or dark green (I am sick of red or yellow Ferraris)
     
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    That bilious green is HIDEOUS (IMO) In the 1970s we called that color gopher vomit green :p
     
  10. neilmac

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    #60 neilmac, Jul 13, 2009
    That's what I understood to be the case too.......but didn't the earlier 275GTB/4 have plexi over the lamps? Not to mention early E-Types and others?

    Always wondered about this.

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  11. ColdWater

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    #61 ColdWater, Jul 13, 2009
    US federal safety standards as well as emission controls were imposed in 1968. These prohibited the glass (not plexi) headlight covers on the E-type and 275 GTB, set a minimum headlight height, and required such things as side marker lights, larger tail lights, rocker switches instead of toggles, etc. Everything got ugly and slow, real suddenly. Cars like the Austin Healey 3000 just disappeared.
     
  12. Daytonafan

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    #62 Daytonafan, Jul 14, 2009
    Probably a Marcel Massini question to resolve?
     
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    #63 jtremlett, Jul 14, 2009
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    It is difficult to tell with different lighting etc. but the Dino you have posted a picture of looks too light to be Blu Dino. The BB looks right.

    Grant's first picture looks too dark to be Blu Dino although again it may be the lighting as that car (the 1971 London Motor Show car) was certainly originally Blu Dino and, as I undertand it, still has its original paint.

    The Daytona pictured at the 2007 Festival of Speed and registered VFV8 was originally brown. I don't know what shade of blue it is currently.

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    #64 readplays, Jul 14, 2009
    I would just like to go on record as stating that Marcel would be on this like white on rice. I happily look forward to any and all future posts from him on this board, and in the meantime, his presence is missed.

    Someone needs to break out the bat signal or something.

    :)
     
  15. f308jack

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    #65 f308jack, Jul 14, 2009
    +1.

    Peter Biggelaar (Bigodino) just had his 308 painted in Blu Dino, and the Daytona in the first pics looks darker to me. The second Daytona in Blu Dino doesn't appeal to me at all, whilst the first one looks fantastic in me eyes. A Spider in that colour with a tan or bisquit interior would be out of this world.
     
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  17. bigodino

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    #67 bigodino, Jul 14, 2009
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    Hi Jack,

    Blu Dino metallic changes shades depending on the circumstances. Pictures don't really capture it. It can look quite dark at times. See attached pictures of my car in different lighting conditions. In reality it's a brighter shade of blue than these pictures show.

    Best regards, Peter
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    Both are Blu Dino metallic Jonathan. See my post above.
     
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    #70 bigodino, Jul 14, 2009
    Is this Giallo Solare?
     
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    #71 shaughnessy, Jul 14, 2009
    Yes!

    Paint samples in the door helped match the paint
     
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    #72 BigTex, Jul 14, 2009
    Looking GOOD, man!!!!
     
  23. f308jack

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    #73 f308jack, Jul 14, 2009
    Is that your shop, Tom?
     
  24. aleventhal

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    #74 aleventhal, Jul 14, 2009
    This just proves that you can't trust pictures to capture the true color, particularly on the internet. I say this because the BB pictured is my car (#18265) and I matched its paint to the blu dino chip in the original glidden salchi eurolac paint chip book that I have. I then supplied the resulting formula to the owner of the pictured Dino. In other words, both cars are exactly the same color, despite how different they look on the screen based on different cameras, lighting, angles, etc.

    A
     
  25. ColdWater

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    #75 ColdWater, Jul 14, 2009
    Symbolic restoration shop, Sorrento Valley Road in San Diego.

    Beautiful work on a special car.
     
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