Color Choice for 365 GT 2+2

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That sounds pretty scary to me. Do the car for yourself, paint it in a colour you'd like to see it in.

 

As noted, Tony, it's your car and you darn well can do what you want. In the day, I painted a couple of Ferraris Rolls Royce Regal Red, a dark metallic red. Here's a sample, although I'm not sure how well my old pix translate.
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That's what I was thinking. There was a champagne 365 for sale not too long ago that I thought looked great, and I think the color would be fantastic on this car.

 

You can eliminate 10077 from the equation! It has been changed from the wine red(non metallic) that I did it in, to Ferrari Red. I painted for JB whlie I was at the Nethercutt Collection in about 1980-2. Mike Regalia

 

EDIT NOTE: 10077 was originally delivered to Sam Golstein in San Diego and purchased by JB Nethercutt through Tom Barrett in I believe July 1980?, after Sam had past away. It was originally Azzuro Metallizzato with either black/dark blue leather/black top. It had only 17k original miles on it when JB aquired it. Shortly after the aquisition we had a discussion(while at Pebble Beach) about the color it should be. In my naive youthful exuberence( I was 25 and 2 years employed as JB's painter) I told JB the ONLY color it should be is Black! He patiently looked at me and said it was a very beautiful car and that it would look good in many colors, but, the one color it would NEVER be is Black! I learned on that day NEVER to TELL JB what he should do! We went on to paint it the wine red(bordeaux) non metallic color, with a dark tan interior and a tan top(we changed the top later to black). I stayed with JB until shortly after his passing in Dec. 2004, ultimately becoming the collections President. I will forever be gratefull to JB and his wife Dorothy(who passed 2 months before he did) for the enumerable wonderfull expieriences, and an education and show record in cars that few if any will ever have! Regards, Mike Regalia

PS I did get to do my 365 Cal Spyder in Black finally in 1992, allbeit serial #9849 for The Checkered Flag Collection of Bill Kontes

 

Rosso chiaro is also nice: http://www.fantasyjunction.com/cars/278-Ferrari-365%20California%20Spyder-4.4%20litre%20V-12

 

I struggled with this choice as well. My car was delivered to N.O. LOUSIana in ross cine, which is really an orange. I ended up with rosso corse, the 50's variety. It suits the car well, without being
too "red"

Mark
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Somehow, more than the colour, headlight covers seem to make all the difference to me. Rosso Corsa, or most solid colours, make the front end look unfinished without the covers, whilst with the covers it actually looks quite appealing. Were any of these cars ever factory-fitted with the covers?