Thought a few of you may find these old cans interesting. I was cleaning out some cabinets in my garage and found them rusting there. I bought three of these in 1975 when a VW bug backed over the nose of my GT at a party. At that time no paint US automotive paint color line could match this bright red since they did not have the correct mixing tints. This was a few years before Porsche came out with their Guards Red so Roso Chiaro was about the brightest red in the US at the time. In 2005 when I was trying to decide what color I wanted to repaint my GT I opened one up and did a spray out and found it a bit too orange for my tastes. In fact, I was thinking about not painting my GT red since I found it too common. I must have done about a dozen spray-outs of many shades of red and other colors. My friends got very tired of me carrying around my spray outs and every time I saw them I would ask their opinion of my newest selections. About the time I was going to spray it a shade of burgundy that I saw on an ISO Grifo A3/C Bizzarrini, I found the PPG Global line of paints and their Rosso Chiaro 190 has more blue in it, and the spray out really popped in the sun. Every time I look at my GT I am happy I went with that color. I am also happy I changed the sheet metal to the Euro look even though I knew in the future it would be considered Blasphemy by the New World Order of buyers. But I have owned my GT since 1974 so the new owner can change it back since I have all the original sheet metal and parts to convert it back. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
