Vintage Ferrari Paint Colors
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Identifying Vintage Ferrari paint colors has proven illusive. This seems to be a common source of
frustration for folks trying to identify a color they see on a particularly nice car, in order to have a paint shop
replicate it properly. With your help, perhaps we can sort this out. Lets start with the paint, and if there is
interest, we can do the leather colors next.
I've listed the Factory colors identified by Keith Bluemel in his book "Original Ferrari V12 1965-73" plus a couple
more, and added the consensus on the English names. Send in your pictures!
At the bottom of this page there is a key to italian color names. Also, Ian Levy noted that apparently a lot of the
colours were named after the great European racehorses of the day, eg Le Sancy, Hyperion, Nijinsky, Nashrullah, Sir Ivor,
Rubino, Nearco, Molvedo, Seabird, etc. It make makes sense Ferrari would do this, and certainly accounts for the
obscurity of some of the names.
Fiat Colors
1968 to 1973 |
Ferrari Colors
1995 |
PPG Ferrari Colors
1998 |
PPG Ferrari Colors
1999 |
| Amaranto (Dark Red) 19.374 lt./20.153 |
| Azzuro La Plata (Light Blue) 20.A.167 |
| Azzuro Metallic (Light Blue Metallic) 19.278M/20.336/1.443.648 |
| Blu Chiaro (Pale/Light Blue) 20.295 |
| Blu Chiaro Metallic (Pale/Light Blue Metallic ) AKA Tour De France Blue 2.443.604 |
SN 2081
http://www.ferraris-online.com |
SN 2081
http://www.ferraris-online.com |
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| Blu Notte (Midnight Blue) 20.454 |
| Blu Popora (Popora(?) Blue) 66.426 |
| Blu Sera (Evening Blue) 20.264 MM16439 |
SN 2081
http://www.250pfcoupe.com |
SN 2081
http://www.250pfcoupe.com |
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| Blu Sera Metallic (Metallic Evening Blue) 20.100M/106.A.18/2.443.603 |
"Blue Sera Metallic 106 A/18
or 2.443.603"Ian Levy |
Yale says his car is the same color as the Blue Sera PF Coupe above, but metallic. |
6097 |
See the movie here |
| Blu Scuro (Deep/Dark Blue) 20.448/95C-6159 |
| Blu Turchese (Turchese(?) Blue) 23.132 |
| Bianco Polo Park (Pearl(?) White) 120.W.152 |
| Celeste Metallic (Celestial Light Blue Metallic) 20.411 |
| Celeste Chiaro (Celestial Really Light Blue) 106.A.26 |
| Argento Auteuil (Silvergrey Metallic) 106.E.1 |
| Grigio Argento (Silver Grey) 20.265/25.090 |
| Grigio Le Sancy 2.443.009 |
Ian Levy |
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| Grigio Ferro (Iron/Gunmetal Grey) 106.E.8 |
| Grigio Fumo (Smoke Grey) 20.294 |
| Grigio Notte (Night Grey) 106.E.28 |
| Marrone (Brown) 2.662.378 |
http://www.fantasyjunction.com |
http://www.fantasyjunction.com |
http://www.fantasyjunction.com |
http://www.fantasyjunction.com |
| Nocciola (Chestnut Brown) 20.451 |
| Nocciola Metallic (Chestnut Brown Metallic) 106.M.27 |
| Oro Chiaro Metallic (Light Gold Metallic (Champagne)) 19.410M |
| Oro Longchamps (Dark Metallic Gold (Bronze)) |
| Rosso Chiaro (Light Red) 20.R.190 or 20.R.191 |
SN Unknown |
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| Rosso Cina (China Red) 20.456 |
| Rosso Cordoba Metallic (Cordoba Metallic Red) |
1976 308GTB |
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| Rosso Rubino Metallic (Ruby/Burgundy Metallic Red 20.481 |
| Amaranto (Dark Red) 19.374 lt./20.153 |
| Rosso Fiorano Code Number? (Although the 275 looks like Rubino to me...) |
| Verde Scuro Paint Code Number? |
Dan Reese 9119 |
Dan Reese 9119 |
Dan Reese 9119 |
Dan Reese 9119 |
| Verde Pino ("Pine" Green - Forest Green?) 20.453/106.G.30 |
To quote Mr Bluemel: "Principally, Scaglietti-built cars were delivered with paint manufactured by Glidden & Salchi,
whereas those built by Pininfarina had paint manufactured by PPG or Duco, the latter only being in solid colours." He
goes on to say that the customer could get whatever that wanted, though, so don't expect any consistency.
1
Blu Chiaro Met or
Blu Sera Met? |
2
212 Export 0084e |
3 |
4 Oro Longchamps?
(Darker than Oro Chiaro Metallic?) |
5
SN 10825 |
6 |
75445 |
85445 |
Here are some other Ferrari color resources:
Barchetta.cc 275 Color Codes (Italver &
Glidden Salchi)
Ferrari Club: What Colors Do Ferrari's Come In?
And from Teach Yourself Italian, here is an Italian color
translation:
The table above shows a list of the main colours which in Italian have a specific name. They are
self-explaining, except the last two on the bottom of the right column, argento = silver and
oro = gold.
A few of them may be referred to with different names. For instance, blu (blue) is commonly used
for deeper shades of blue, while azzurro is more often preferred for medium and light shades of the same
colour. Marrone is the most common word for brown, although in some compound names
(as will be said further on) bruno is sometimes used. Also arancio (orange) is often
called arancione, same colour.
Many more shades can be described by using the two adjectives chiaro (pale, light) and scuro
(deep, dark). A few examples:
This scheme may be theoretically used for any colour, although when a pale or deep shade
has its own specific name, the latter is preferred (i.e. pink rather than pale red;
ochre or tan rather than deep yellow; etc.).
Many colours have a specific name taken from a fruit, an animal, a gem, or anything else in nature
which may recall the particular shade. A few examples:
(lobster red)
(blood red)
(pea green)
(musk green)
(mahogany brown)
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(sky blue)
(night blue)
(lemon yellow)
(mouse grey)
(pearl grey)
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For the most common ones, usually only the second part is used,
i.e. aragosta (lobster) instead of rosso aragosta (lobster red),
crema (cream) instead of giallo crema (cream yellow), and so on.
But when the shade's name might be misunderstood, it is better to use color (colour)
in front of it: color aragosta, color limone, color mogano, etc.
Color is the same word colore, shortened for phonetic reasons when it is
followed by the name of a shade.
Very few foreign names are also used for colours, and two of them are rather common:
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