Restoration 330gt #5933 to original spec

A good place to start:

http://www.330gt.com/
http://www.330gt.com/Encyclopedia/PaintColors.htm
Some history on your car: http://www.330gt.com/Detail/5933.html

Then poke around here:

http://tomyang.net/

And if all else fails, as Marcel.

Good luck with your restoration!

Sincerely,

Art S.

 

For leather samples, see Leather Colors (330gt.com). Home - HVL Class Leather (hvlclassleathers.com) in the Netherlands can provide a sample of the VM 3015.

I would appreciate it if you would register your ownership of 5933. Go to 330 GT Registration Form.

Regards, Kerry Chesbro
330 GT Registry (www.330gt.com)

 

I can’t speak to 1960’s paints, but when painting a Dino to historical colors, I have multiple Paint Samples that all differ even though they have the same code, same age, but yet they vary...... some more blue, some more green, etc....

To make matters worse, when one applies modern paint mixing techniques, it doesn’t even match historical paint cards.

This is not an easy problem to solve.

Shawn

 

Yves, regarding leather, Connolly is now producing the Vaumol series. Your car would have VM-3015 and VM-8500 in its interior. Connolly will send you samples of these two for the asking. I bought from them and I was happy with their product and service.

https://www.ukhide.co.uk/product-category/connolly/

Regarding the color, your best bet is to find a corner of the car that still has a good representation of the original paint, then color match it.

john

 

As said before 5933 GT was born Celeste 19321 M with Blu VM 3015.
And as usual, I suggest contacting Roberto Bertaccini of Cremonini Classics in Lesignana (Modena), who is the best when it comes to these colors of the 50s to the 80s

https://www.cremoniniclassic.it/

Marcel Massini

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Blu VM 3015 Connolly.

Marcel Massini

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VM 3105 did not change. When you look at pix on the internet today or anywhere else on some screen (or worst case on a small iphone) you have to keep in mind that colors do change dramatically if a photo was taken inside or outside a building, under what light conditions, with or without flash, which angle, what kind of camera and lens used, etc. The visual impression will differ enormeously, and your eyes are not the same as mine or others.
Always compare personally to an original mid-1960's leather sample. Even then, such a 57 year old leather sample may have changed color due to sunlight, same for a car that has spent most of its life outside in sunny California or Arizona, or simply stored for 50 plus years in a dark warehouse with little UV radiation. Old leathers: Feel it, touch it, smell it, look at it, it's called haptics.
Lots of elements and parameters that do play a role.
(And we haven't even started discussing about the grain, lots or very little, and the overall thickness of the leather. Modern leather is way too soft, too perfect, too clean, too flat, furniture leather, so to speak. You should see a leather sample from the 1950s when the leather was almost twice as thick and grainy as today. Things have changed).

Marcel Massini

 

Yves

I think Marcel's point is you can't tell that based of uncalibrated photos. I'm curious what your opinion will be with a sample in hand.

Sincerely,

Art S.

 

Typical not so good screen pic.
Get a real sample in your own hand. No photo, no screen.

Marcel Massini

 

THIS!!

Marcel Massini

 

Here is the Connolly Vaumol VM-3015 as issued in 1964 and as installed in 2019. Correct, the shades are not exactly the same, though I am happy that they are not; the new VM-3015 is a much more attractive color.

john

 

Yves, try HVL in the NL. He has a hide that matches the Connolly Vaumol's grain and a blue in that hide that is much closer to the original VM-3015. In any case, you should get samples of both hides and a true sample for the "blu cleleste", then decide.

john

 

Suggest to try MAIELI instead.
You have to be able to speak Italian, however. Their English is limited. Stefania speaks some English.

Andrea & Stefania Maieli
Interni Auto Maieli
Via Francesco Baracca 3
I-46048 Canedole di Roverbella
(Mantova)
ITALY
Tel +39 0376 695 105
[email protected]
www.interniautomaieli.com

They are the best!
Marcel Massini

 

Johns car is absolutely stunning! crazy excellence on workmanship! Got to see it in person

 

Thanks Ed. There is an absolutely crisp $20 bill in the mail for you .

john