Azure Blue or Bali Blue

I had the same problem. Narrowed it down to the same two you picked. They are really close. I chose Azure Blue because it was a 56 color and would have been available on a 57 with special order. Bali is a 65 color, I think. I don't regret it. It looks good with a tan top and interior.

 

I'm actually really happy you replied; i have that first photo saved on my phone as my reference for "Azure Blue" and it's great to see it in different light. Thank you. 

 

I'm 90% sold on that color. Getting samples sprayed this week. Can't wait!

 

Thank you!

BHM has a Bali Blue coupe in the show room

I believe that is my wife's JPS coupe that I sold them almost two years ago !

I've said this before and I will say it again...I think you have one of the prettiest cars I have seen.  That color with the tan is perfect.  Need more pics of that ridiculously clean motor!

+1 That is one beautiful machine! Can't go wrong with that color combo! 

Devin.
I'm not sure who is building your car, but if the color you are looking for is the same as my old Vintage Super Widebody, Kirk calls it Cobalt Blue and MIGHT, be willing to give you the code if it isn't him that is building it.
Here is a link to pictures of my old car.
http://kvan.hopto.org/speedster.htm

Gee Troy, it's really too bad you can't take any good pictures of your cars.

 

WOW, that looks great! And I don't even like widebodies. Great photography, man.

Devin, the paint code I used is a Porsche number, 5408. And it is a 1954 color. I thought it was '56. Most auto paint stores will be able mix it up in base/clear or single stage. I gave the number to Kirk and his painter got it right on.

Hi If your looking for darker blue, this colour is really awesome. Midnight Blue 3C7 from the list I saw this car in the flesh and it is deep blue , no metallic very nice colour. 

 

http://intermeccanica.com/athi...title-speedster.html

 

Thanks Stan!

Stan, Troy's cars look as good in person as they do in photos.

His gray outlaw is every bit as striking in person as Scott Sloan's stone gray bitchinmobile...

Devin, this one's by far my favorite.

Thanks for all the responses guys.. 

 

Troy, as you guys may remember, I wanted to go with the Suby engine and couldn't afford the IM, so i went with JPS. It's funny, i've saved more than a few pictures of your widebody as well. It confused the heck out of me though because it seems to change color so much in the different photos. Everything from a medium blue (http://i770.photobucket.com/al...ter/Picture20192.jpg) to black (http://i770.photobucket.com/al...ter/Picture20232.jpg). 

 

Cartech IM, thanks for the suggestion; admittedly i'm looking for something lighter.

 

Will, also thanks for the suggestion; admittedly i was looking for something darker but now you've got me going down the lighter road. I like that it's a bold color, not baby blue. Looks a lot like an old Fender Strat i had, instead of the old light blue T-Birds.

 

Fpcopo, thanks for the info. I sent John the pics and asked him to reach out to Kirk for the code, which he got around the same time you posted with your code. Conveniently, you both came back with 5408. Apparently it's from Willhoit (http://www.willhoitautorestora...com/paintsamples.php)

 

Thanks again for all the help. I'll post pics of the paint samples when i get them next week.

 

(also, forgive me for not knowing all of your names.. I'm just going on handles right now, but i'll get there)

What year was your Strat?

I had 2 items made in 1959 and sold them both for not nearly enough, a black, mint Strat and a silver, not-so-mint 356 coupe.

Hindsight!

Sadly, it wasn't a 1959 or anywhere close. It was around 1994 and if I recall, it was a Squier (by Fender). Apparently I've been a fan of the replica thing for a while now.

Will... Thank god for the internet.. here's what the strat looked like (except mine had a rosewood fretboard):

 

http://www.strat-talk.com/foru...trat-help-color.html

After some back and forth and forth -- literally, to and from North Hollywood, to and from paint stores, and to and from the paint booth -- i landed on two colors to choose between. I have the codes but i'm not sure where they're from... if anyone is interested i can find out. 

 

Even though the lighter blue is exactly what i had in my head, i went with the darker for two reasons. First, i thought when you paint a whole car one of these colors, the lighter will be TOO light and the blue in the darker will come out more. Second, i thought it just looked like a richer color. 

 

Despite finding several recipes for Azure Blue (including the code referenced above), we never found one that looked like what i expected. 

 

So if this color doesn't have a name, i'm hereby naming it Laguna Blue, since i live in Laguna beach. 

 

About 8-10 weeks to go... Sigh. 

Ray:  That's my old Speedster.  Henry owned it at the time, and I bought it from him.  Used to be owned by that fellow in Ottawa - can't recall his name right now.

 

I had it repainted silver.

 

Miko is his name, but I call him Harrison because he is a spitting image of Hans Solo a complete double.  

Devin:  Have you looked at "Adria Metallic Blue"??

 

I think it was a 1954 coupe color.

 

Here it is on a coupe I saw at a show today - fresh, flawless and perfect restoration and, IMVHO, a 100-point car worth way more than my house.   Absolutely stunning.

 

That's Pearl, lurking in the background and feeling a tad less than perfect....

The sense that "it's a tad less than perfect" is what we thrive on!...God help us.

I bet Pearl and its driver have way more fun!

Gordon

looks great but what is the color of the blue directly behind? That is the color I like.

I was told what the background car's color is, but don't remember.  The guy lives one town over from me and I have his email address, so let me ask and get back to you.

Gordon.. if i could have one in 15 different colors, i think i'd be happy with each  -- and that would definitely be one of them

And one of the many reasons that we on here don't drive originals is that the Adria Blue, bent windshield with a V-front original sunroof coupe up above, fresh out of a restoration to make it a 100 point car, is valued WAY north of $400K.

 

That, folks, is more than houses are going for around here........

Gordon- And to think that after spending all that money making it look so nice he's probably now afraid to drive it!  Cars that don't get driven- SACRILEGE, I tell you! It does look good in that blue, though...

 

I don't know how much you know about Vancouver real estate, but I wish that was more than my house! And we live in a townhouse- a nice townhouse, but it's still a townhouse. An older house on a typical lot in the neighborhood (we're in Burnaby, just east of the actual city of Vancouver) is worth somewhere around $800,000.