Is Blu Le Mans applied off site

Can anyone post the pix of the historical color chart?
Ed

 

From what I have read, all the out of range, historical and optional colors are done off-site to a much higher standard than the standard palette. Probably worth the money and the triple colors have come down in price, too.

 

Yes, that's correct. Ferraris own paint shop can only do 16 standard colours although what those 16 standard colours are changes over time. Anything else is sub-contracted to Carrozeria Zanasi who are just the other side of the SS486 from the Factory.

Jonathan

 

Does ferrari send out the entire car to be paint, or all the body panels shipped back and forth?
Ed

 

Zanasi Ferrari

The 'entire car' is nothing more than a body:

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Gr. Martin

 

My 612 OTO was also painted at Zanasi in 2009; at that time, the factory paint shop did satisfy "extracampionario" requests according to the general flow of things in production. I am sure that this is also the case now as a couple of friends have had their (recent) cars shifted between being painted at Zanasi or the main Factory.

Anything that (apart from a peculiar paint formulation) involves bespoke detailing goes to Marco Zanasi as a matter of course.

Now, on the new FF...or F12, or both!

 

When a special color is ordered and body shipped off site, do they grab a preprinted car off the line and repaint it? Or, is a brand new body in primer shipped? The above post looks like a standard gray color being trucked.
Ed

 

It is a brand new body in a protective coating. Primer and paint are applied at Zanasi as if the process was taking place in the in-house paint shop.

 

I have learned a lot from this thread, esp about the Zanazi connection. It will help me in my next order. Thanks to all who have contributed.

 

i have searched for this and didn't find it. can the multi layer special paints be successfully spot painted or panels painted to match?

 

In order to gain a perfect match, a whole flank may need to be "blended in", ie localised graduated paint and end-to-end lacquer will need to be applied. It is possible for a good sprayer to get away with a localised repair but they'd need to be having the best working day of their life for it to be perfect.

It also depends on what you are repairing. If parts are changed, the process of building up the correct primer, etc will have to be to absolute factory specs. Some times, paint shops use other equivalent non-PPG materials from equally mega paint manufacturers (ie Dupont), occasionally leading to slight deviations.

Same applies to opaco (satin) finishes.