Red - my procrastinating

Art,

Is your knock-out speedster sitting on a turntable?...Your garage????

The 1955 teardrop trailer in my avitar is Ford, Torch Red. 

It's nice.

 

 

Enjoy,

Ted

Oh Carl I wish my garage is that clean. My car photo, was from a photo shoot the dealer did.

 

Guards Red BTW

So, Art, that photo above is the current color?

Rich, yes it is.

Bernie, here's a red called Tornado Red (LY3D).  It's a vibrant red that VW used in the 90's (not orangey or maroonish). J.P.

I should show a better example of 55 Ford Torch Red:

 

 

Not mine...

Ted

OMG

Another example of Torch Red, different light:

Here are two different reds.  The bright one is John Hallstrand's SAS and the deeper one is my Beck.  Not exactly sure of the color of either but you could contact the manufacturers.

 

Tom Rhan's red Beck is very nice.  Audi brilliant red I think. 

correct  ... Audi Brilliant Red

 

has some orange .... but not as much as Guards ... and a nice red, not to bloody

 

 

 

Here's my Beck in the red (excuse the dust) they used in 2007.

I'm likin' the red on the T Bird for a classy deep saturation of color look. 

I hope Alan won't mind me posting photo's of  beautiful Ruby for another example of a great red. These were taken at the Starved Rock gathering last September.

Ruby Red was what I was going for when Carey did mine.  I love the deeper reds.  I believe Beck calls it Amulet Red.

Speaking of, Allan Shapiro's "Ruby" does it for a great many of us.

A final pair of pics of Ruby at Starved Rock:

Alan's Ruby, Lane's, Trahn's and Hoss' are all great examples of red. I've seen them all in person. You really can't go wrong with any of them.

Thanks so much for taking the time to Post the pictures and offering the colour identifications.

 

Rich Drewek, my other cars are easily seen on clubcobra.

 

Google clubcobra - select Australian Forum.  You will find me there as BMK.

 

click on the camera icon and it will take you into my gallery.

 

cheers guys. Thanks again.

 

Bernie

Or you could go BRG . .. .

Mmmm BRG...

Bernie,

I painted my MG TD a red I saw on a Chevy SSR ( sport truck ) no longer made.

Google it and look at the images - I loved the color the first time I saw one on the road. It pop's! I don't think the computer pictures do many of these colors justice.

Yes I am amazed at just how many red - not just red - colours there are in the range.

 

Also Nissan have a darker red.

 

The Mercedes 'Mars' red is suitable for the Speedster I think as well.

 

I am trying to keep the colour in keeping with year of the 356.  

 

Pollyantha is the original darker red.

 

Mmm decisions...

Bernie- All that matters is that it's the shade that turns your crank- everyone else will go, "Wow, that's red!". We all think it'll look great, whichever shade it ends up...Al

ALB

 

Al,

 

you know I think you are right..

 

bernie

Bernie, you're right about Nissan. I used 2005 Nissan 350Z red for the darts on my white Spyder. It is a nice, dark, old-school, non-metallic red. Looks good on the Z too, no, I don't have one.

Bernie,

Don't make yourself crazy!

 

Designers and printers identify 'color' by numerical code so I can specify to a printer in Hong Kong exactly the "red' I want for the title imprint because there are over twenty 'reds' to choose from, and ironically each and every one of them would look good for my title....or for your speedster!!!

 

 

Carl, et al -

Realizing that manufacturers have established paint color codes for all the various shades of the color spectrum, is there any online tool that you can use to translate a RGB computer color code to a paint color code?  I know there are online tools that allows one to mix and match colors to find the color they want (https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/) but not sure if I can take this three number sequence to a paintshop and get what I want.

 

Scott

Scott,

Accurate ink coding is based on mixtures of the reflective primaries Red, Blue, Yellow  The numerical coding on PMS (Pantone Matching System) color swatches are used to communicate to the printer...and he translates that into %'s of RBY resulting in a perfect match. (Black ink is also used to deepen, or to gray-up)

 

RGB being electronically arrived at is a totally different animal. What you see on your screen may not be identical to another screen, so there's no way nail it down as a 'reflective' color...close, but no Cupie-Doll!

 

Despite being called "Tornado Red" or "Climax Pink" OEM colors are also accurately measured % of 'reflective' pigments...More complicating than printing, but the same principal. Auto paint shops have color swatches of OEM colors, and a good shop (experienced) can duplicate a color swatch from the paint department of Home Depot!    

I went to a local Spies-Hecker dealer and looked through their books(I know them) to find my red. I took the book outside into the sun too. Any good paint shop will let you do this. Try to pick the store your painter buys his stuff from, that always helps.

Thanks guys.

 

i have the paint shop spraying up both Porsche Ruby Red and Polyantha Red on sample panels now.

 

I will keep you posted..

That polyantha red looks sharp; dark and deep. Who's car is it? And paint the thing already!!! Al

Ooooo, I love me some dark reds!

According to builder Steve, my color is GM Torch Red.  Charles Gardner had an IM Roadster he believed to be Guards Red and wanted to have it touched up. Turns out that it was actually the Torch Red, as mine is.  Seeing Charles' car up close was what sold me on the color.  Whatever color is selected, I think it is one that is readily available for touch ups and resprays.