Please Help! with picking out a color! - Page 2

mtml427 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-01-2008, 02:49 AM

You may want to check out Kirkham KMP144. It has sold recently but you can Google it.

427PMS · #2 (**permalink**) 06-01-2008, 02:55 PM

PHM ,I added a few more pictures of the saphire blue out side . in my gallery some of them not so good but you will get a better idea of how the color reacts to the light . I will e-mail you a few also

ROUSHAC · #3 (**permalink**) 06-01-2008, 03:36 PM

They have a lot more galleries sorted by colors with paint codes included in many cases than I've seen anywhere else:

http://www.ffcobra.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=32

PHM · #4 (**permalink**) 06-01-2008, 07:37 PM

Thanks for the help guys, I think i'm going to stop by a local body shop tommorow and see what color charts they might have to look at. I'm going to check out the 2000 ford truck color. Chris sent me pictures of his car with the blue safire paint and it looks really awesome but am afraid it might be just a little to sparly for me. I am looking for a color a little lighter than a midnight blue. Any other suggestions would be great. I've got to come up with a color before Tuesday.

BDHE · #5 (**permalink**) 06-02-2008, 07:24 AM

PHM;

Color is one of the things we've all spent a lot of time deciding. As far as what's "right" -- choose the color that's right for you.

You're on the right track by looking at paint chips. I did that too, settling on just the right (for me) PPG paint codes for the body and stripes. I then specified these colors to SPF, and that's what colors they painted it. It's "supposed" to be an additional cost to do custom colors, but they waived any extra costs.

By the way, I've heard that if you rounded up a "statistical" sample of 10 cobras, 5 of them would be blue, 3 would be red and 2 would be silver.

Bryon

jimw427 · #6 (**permalink**) 06-02-2008, 08:42 AM

Ahh the dredded color question. Mine was going to be blue with white stripes for almost 5 years, up until it was tiem to paint it. There are a lot of blue out there, and that is the reason I went with something different, but bottom line do what you want, thats all that really counts.

What helped be best in picking a color was spending some time checking out car lots looking at colors, a whole car in any specific color looks a little different then the 1" X 1" paint chip. Find some colors you like in the car lots and check them out in the sun as well as evenings ect... some colors really appear different in the sun light then under a little 60 watt bulb. Good luck.........

murray2658 · #7 (**permalink**) 06-02-2008, 04:46 PM

I have Portifino Blue from SPF, it's a nice color and you don't see it very often. I'm not sure if it is still available, but might be worth a peek! I had mine repainted in PPG, (the old manufacturer was Glasirite(Sp)) with silver stripes!

Good Luck !

PHM · #8 (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 04:36 AM

Thanks Guy's! After looking at alot of pictures and trying to find paint codes it turns out i'm going to go with the SPF Royal Blue with silver pin strips. Thanks for all your help. It's nice to know there is this much information out there! I am going to Carlise this weekend and try to find an engin builder. I've never had a big block and i thing that is what i'm putting in it, for good or bad. I will probebly be looking for a dual quad set up for a 428 if anyone has one?

RACERAL · #9 (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 08:04 PM

Like a guy told me one time... When you lay your head down on the pillow at nite and you start thinking about Cobras... what color do you go to sleep thinking about!!!. Check out the pic of my car below.. Its a stock FORD blue.

JJM3 · #10 (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 08:52 PM

I just joined the board as I'm looking to eventually get a SPF in the near future. I'm a long time M3 owner and intimately know BMW's blue lineup ... Avus, Lemans, Laguna Seca, etc. with Avus being the closest color to what I'm looking for in the SPF. Since someone opened the thread, I figured I step out of lurkerville and jump on the blue topic. Does anyone have a pic of Indigo Blue & Royal Blue next to each other? I know colors are so subjective.

Any way to verbally describe the difference? I've seen some pics of Indigo looking really different based on lighting conditions (like BMW’s Carbon Black) ... Royal has seemed more consistent in photos. I'm looking for what most matches RACERAL's gorgeous ride. Does his/your pic accurately represent Ford Blue? Regardless - that color in the pic is extremely close to what I'm after ... no pastel hints, more blue depth.

BTW - how's the Cobra scene in Atlanta? I've only seen a couple. The Southern club looked all FL. A fellow BMW enthusiast here in Atlanta pointed me to the board (Tony H.) - past owner of 2 Cobras with 1 being Indigo SPF, but my memory of it is 3 years old.

Thanks,
John