Well, my cat is finally showing it’s true colors. We wrapped up the trunk section and decided to get some body color on it and see what it would look like.
I chose a '68 color for my '67 because I love the Madras Blue. It is one of those colors that is hard to describe, and I welcome your suggestions, because all the photos come out blue, and not ‘whatever shade of blue/teal/green’ we can call it.
Of course, I have to show the nasty way this trunk started out:
-Swiss cheese frame, with the replacement tank in-
Don at WCCC had a trunk section laying around which was just the ticket, which as you see here IS a '68 section in faded Madras Blue (and looks more like the color):
-I kept the original rear wall though, as mine was spotless-
…and here is my ‘photographs blue but really has some green in it’ trunk now:
So since I cannot send anyone accurate color pics (at least in this light), how would those that know describe ‘Madras Blue’?
Yes, they do. It was weird to stand there looking at what you describe, yet seeing blue in the iPhone display. My friends Android was the same. You can see it in the corners where there is sunlight reflecting into shadow areas, but it looks darker there, still off.
It just doesn’t fit in the cell phone gamut I guess.
I really like the color. Madras blue is the color I want to paint Top Cat. If the trunk looks that good I can’t wait to see more pictures of the body of the car.
Steven
The new paint you sprayed looks a lot like Nordic Blue. I mean A LOT LIKE Nordic Blue.
You may want to have that mix checked again by your paint supplier. It happened to me one time where I was having a quart of Nordic blue mixed and they erroneously mixed the '68 dark blue paint instead. It happens.
