Classic Maserati Blues- Examples Please. Mexico needs repair!

Hi,

You may recall that last year I purchased a '67 Mexico, which had been repainted red over a tan interior in the 80's (photo below). Not the best colour combination- but I've been loving the car, chipping away and improving various things, and doing lots of driving! I had always intended to repaint the car at some stage, as I don't love the colour... which really doesn't suit the Mexico at all in my opinion.

I do quite like the tan interior of my car (also in a photo below), as I am generally a fan of lighter interiors; and the interior of the car has held up very well having been redone when the body and paint was done in the late 80's. As such- I don't plan to revert the car to the original combo of silver over black; and as it has been converted to RHD (as all cars had to be in Australia until not long ago), the super-originality is less important to me.

This issue has been forced as my Mexico was rear-ended in traffic the other day. Young chap on his phone on a downhill slope while we were stopped at a red light, neglected to keep his foot on the brake and so rolled his large work truck into the Mexico at low speed... Damage is all cosmetic to the boot lid which has had paint scraped off it, and a bing ding in the rear bumper. As such- the work my restorer would perform would already include repainting the back 1/3rd of the car, and pulling fuel tanks out etc to remove and repair/ rechrome the rear bumper. Seems like a good opportunity to consider a full bare metal repaint, as the insurance bill would cover a proportion of the work which will have to be done anyway.

With the tan interior, I was keen on one of the classic Maserati metallic blues- and although I've found colour examples on some of the usual websites, the colour balance of the paint chips is all over the place- so it is hard to get an idea of what they really look like in real life. As an example, I've seen Blu Tigullio paint swatches look anything from mid-blue to dark grey!

I've gone through the Mexico registry and found a good bunch of photos- with some possible contenders.

As such- I would appreciate any real-world photos of your classic Maserati GT in blue.

The particular colours I'm considering (all original options for Mexico) are the following:
- Azzuro Vincennes Met.
- Blu Ischia Met.
- Blu Tigullio Met. (possibly my current favourite, example photo below)
- Celeste Chiaro Met.

Would also consider others too- and apart from Celeste Chiaro I've not seen examples of the others in real life.

Thanks

Remi

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Thanks - the pun was (sadly) very much intended. Trying to find an upside!

 

Thanks all- do you think this is Blu Tigullio? Article doesn't say, but if so- it looks amazing!
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Hmm- they may have coded it 'silver' sure, but the photos of the Mexico in that article are not of a silver (Argento Auteil) car that's for sure. Seen plenty of those, and they don't have that blue hue under any light...

 

Thanks Ivan- yes, chatted with the restorer yesterday and he will spray out large test panels for the colours under consideration...

 

Work has begun... will update progress from time to time. As you can no doubt see, my Mexico is in good company.

Thanks for all the advice- going to look at the colour sample panels next week. Still think Blu Tig. will be the go. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

They are working fast- most of the old paint is almost off the car. Not looking too bad underneath so far... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Not sure- I'm swinging by this week so will report back...

 

I'll make sure I don't lick it!

 

To distract everyone from the Khamsin wars on the other thread, I present here an update on the Mexico. Body is now almost fully stripped, and in excellent shape- other than the doors which I already knew about. Good news for the budget as we just purchased a new house on the weekend!

Also have my test panels to consider, which I have included below. Suffice to say, Blu Tigullio is as presented by the latest contributors to this thread, and not the car I had posted initially I don't think. I shot the test panels in direct sunlight, and also indoors under lighting both with and without a sample of my interior from a door.

Order of the colours (in photo order, and also left to right when all together) is Azzuro Vincennes; Celeste Chiaro; Blu Tigullio; Blu Ischia.

At least on these smaller panels, the Tigullio is much more grey than I expected, although I'm sure on the entire car it will lighten up and perhaps more of the blue would come through. Azzuro Vincennes seems to have that nice mix of blue/ grey/ bit of green that I was thinking of (and perhaps is the example car I had shown in my initial thread)- but again may end up looking lighter on the whole car.

I hope others find it helpful to have these colours side by side in sun and indoors with the same phone camera!

Thoughts from the team?

Thanks

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Vincennes top left, Chiaro bottom right.
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