Nissan says the GT-R is the only vehicle evaluated under streetlamps at night to ensure colors like Midnight Purple and Bayside Blue stellar are the best they can be for people exhibiting their vehicle in late-night car shows

In fact, the iconic R34 shade of Bayside Blue is so-named for the Bayshore Route in Tokyo; the Wangan route that became a haven for after-hours street racing in the 1990s.

https://www.motor1.com/news/720470/nissan-tests-gt-r-colors-streetlights-look-good/

wow!

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10229426591680648&set=gm.7309369062442416&idorvanity=456235534422504

a masterpiece of rolling advertising for the painter

 

Imagine how much the materials cost for this would be today... probably twice what the total cost of the car and paint in the mid 70s

I expect the cost of the labor on this alone, today, would be over 20,000 dollars

Wow, incredible reflection!

Rob Hargrove at Reflection Perfection Fine Auto Detailing

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2231274370594508&set=a.153312128390753

reminds me of christmas time ribbon candy... those colors were vibrant

http://v2guzzi.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2022-09-27T14:17:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=7&by-date=false

candy, candy, candy

A 1961 Kellison J5 on a 61 Corvette chassis, with a 60 over 348 topped with 3 dueces, a t10 and 3:55 gears. 1 of 3 known to have a full till front end. 

https://silodrome.com/kellison-j-5-car/

on ebay, https://www.ebay.com/itm/185898643454 and currently bid to 50k. 

Rob sent some cool paint jobs my way this morning to share with you all! Thanks Rob!

 

Berryloid Pigmented Dope was a color compound painted over the fabric of airplanes to seal, waterproof, and tighten the plane.

https://sky4buy.com/Berryloid-Vintage-Aircraft-Finishes-Customer-Design-Kit-181903635421/04836

One of the grandsons of the company founders talked the company into purchasing a Waco 10 (NC6528; ATC #41; not a Davis-Monthan airplane) and competed with it in the 1927 National Air Races (NAR) and the 1928 Ford Reliability Tour (Forden reference, left sidebar, chapter IV). He hired Charles W. Meyers, then chief test pilot for Advance Aircraft Co. (makers of Waco planes) to fly the airplane. Colby went along as passenger. They took 4th place in the National Air Tour, and first place in the NAR New York to Spokane, WA Class B race in 1928. According to a popular biography of Colby in the April 15, 1938 issue of Sportsman Pilot, he sold the Waco after the 1928 Tour and bought a Buhl. 

Finally, in 1928, he learned to fly at Culver City, CA. He bought the Great Lakes airplane, NC840H and had it painted with the company name on the fuselage. He was hailed in Detroit as the first sales manager to employ an airplane to cover his territory (but see “Pop” Cleveland and the information about the Parker Pen Company at NC126M).

He then went into business making aviation country clubs with golf courses and resorts, one was on Grosse Island, near Detroit, another was the Lazy H Ranch northeast of Escondido which Colby founded after World War II, converting it into a resort complex with a landing strip and golf course

https://dmairfield.org/people/colby_to/index.html

https://content.libraries.wsu.edu/digital/collection/pangborn/id/127/

http://www.adastron.com/lockheed/altair/h1berry.htm

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Berryloid_Advert_showing_Command-Aire_5C3%2C_part_of_a_series._Aerodigest_November_1929_p.33.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/EAAVintage/photos/a.428101280008/10157477842985009/?type=3

https://dmairfield.org/people/colby_to/index.html

https://sky4buy.com/Berryloid-Vintage-Aircraft-Finishes-Customer-Design-Kit-181903635421/04836

https://www.proxibid.com/Gas-Oil-Advertising/Gas-Oil-Signs/Berry-Brothers-Berryloid-Color-Code-Sample-Booklet/lotinformation/74874436

https://www.proxibid.com/Matthews-Auctions-LLC/Day-2-Bob-Harrington-Display-Auction/event-catalog/238073?p=5&sort=0#cnTb

https://books.google.com/books?id=HV_fJYsjIOAC&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

that's one cool groovy paint design on the tailgate

 https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=120752&page=3

love this paint job

especially would be cool if it were a floral delivery van

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10231053122215858&set=gm.964768444470518&idorvanity=339009140379788

12 years ago Coby Gewertz stunned everyone with Van Go, and though this isn't as radically designed, but damn, it sure turns heads with the paint design. I wonder what inspired it

the model T had about 10 colors to choose from, but the Model A had 67, and one, was L'Anse Green... not many people will have any reason to know why Ford called a color L'Anse green, but it's because Ford had a train and logging mill there

 I only just learned this morning of the info that there were 67 colors, and that one was L'Anse green, for the 1931 Model A, (it is also the same as Spectramaster GS364 OR DS143)

Why is it something significant enough for me to post about?

I happen to have been born there, and graduated from it's high school (Go Hornets! Boo Baraga!)  So, for me it's revelatory that Ford named a color after that yooper town, because I have that hometown connection. 

There happened to be some odd paint names for model As, and I have no idea how they came to be, but, get a load of these!

Menelous Orange (i am not making that up)

Pegex Orange

Runelite Red

Chicle drab

Copra drab

Kewanne green (likely a misspelling of Kewanee) is probably named for Kewanee Ill. or Mo. Miss. Wis. Ind.

https://hdpaintcode.com/ford-model-a/

https://issuu.com/jordanrpm/docs/muscle_car_plus_oct-nov_2022_issuu

https://www.starcourier.com/story/entertainment/human-interest/2013/04/20/where-did-henry-ford-find/48935016007/

for the post on the Ford trains in L'Anse https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-ford-locomotives-at-ford-sawmill-in.html

For the post on the Ford sawmill (where Celotex later made a factory that operated for most of 1960-2000: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/05/ford-at-keating-spur-in-lanse-and.html

hell of a paint theme

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/orangecountyinternationalraceway

someone could afford a lot of paint!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3353552718262145&set=a.1401730436777726

loving these paint colors

 https://www.classiccult.com/blog/ebi-6.html

70s candy paint job Road Runner

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=5506382609374555&set=pcb.4921931654595457

thanks Terry! This is sweet!