Re: metallic medium green Spiders

[Gordon C Hyde <gohyde@domain.elided>]

>Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 22:32:19 EDT
>From: JHertzman@domain.elided
>Subject: 86 Veloce metallic medium green
>
>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? 

In AD 7-660 John H (in Raleigh) responds
>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.

I too hope the label is in the trunk of Roy's friend's car.  However,
there is a green that is not listed in John's research.  In the mid 80's
there was a small number of what I would call a pale "mint" green
Spiders.  There was also a bit like a "rosewood" much like the color that
Volvo used in the mid 80s.  I do not have the factory paint chip chart as
John does, but the pale green model is featured in one of the brochures
on the CarDisc.  I cannot confirm it right now, as I have unloaded the CD
from my computer.  It is my understanding that the green, the rosewood,
and the Champagne metallics were produced in relatively small numbers and
perhaps in 85-87 only.  Personal experience would confirm this, as I have
only seen a couple of the green ones, one rosewood, and three other
champagne ones (plus my own).   #8^)

Gordy Hyde
1987 Champagne Spider
Bothell WA
NWARC

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