86 Veloce metallic medium green

[JHertzman@domain.elided]

In AD7-659 Roy Moreno asks:

"My good friend has an 86 Veloce and wants to refresh the paint.  It is a
metallic, medium green.  Where can we find a good source of paint?  What
brands?  What are the equivalent codes for this color?  Thanks!"

The good news: There should be a sticker inside the trunk lid with the color 
name and Alfa's code number for that color (AR xxx) and the name of the 
original paint manufacturer, probably Italver Pittsburgh Paints SpA of Milan, 
(or Italver PPG), and PPG's American auto paint subsidiary, Ditzler, should 
be able to match it.

Now the bad news: I am red/green colorblind, so what I see doesn't count, but 
I have an "Alfa Romeo 1986 Color Selections" chip-chart, and it gives the 
colors for 1986 Spiders as Sterling Silver Metallic, Alfa Red, Jet Black, 
Arctic White, Stellar Blue Metallic, and Champaign Metallic, none of which 
look or sound like a medium green. D'Amico & Tabucchi list twenty-one 
different colors used on 2000 Spiders, and the only green they list before 
1993 is British Racing Green. In 1993 they pick up Metallic Acid Green, 
Metallic Tropical Green, and Metallic Forest Green 

So- hope that the book and the chip-chart are both wrong, and that the label 
is still inside the trunk lid.

John H.
Raleigh, N.C.

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