Re: alfa-digest V7 #663 - pale "mint" green Spiders

[AlfaNeely@domain.elided]

     I have a burned out 85 spider.  It is a light green metallic, perhaps 
"pale "mint" green" would describe it.  It was a really nice car before the 
interior turned into toast.  The drive train and other parts are on their way 
to other Alfas soon!
     The tag inside the trunk reads, "Industrie Vermici Italiane", which I 
assume is the manufacturer.  The color is, "Verde Chiaro Met AR 246."  Below 
that there is a bunch of Italian words I did not transcribe. 
Ciao,
Russ Neely
Oklahoma City


In a message dated 4/26/99 10:16:31 AM Central Daylight Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

<< 
 Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:58:10 -0700
 From: Gordon C Hyde <gohyde@domain.elided>
 Subject: Re: metallic medium green Spiders
 
 >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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