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Old Feb 24, 2008 | 12:20 PM
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Im confused... again... about paint codes

Do you guys know for a fact that the last code on this list is the same as the one in the car in the pic?

http://www.rotorhead.ca/topic.php?fldr=tech&cntnt=paint
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Old Feb 24, 2008 | 03:00 PM
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There was only one SA lime green color. Later where was a metal flake green but it is a bit darker composition.

Paint can cover a lot more spectrum of color than the example color. That's just a HTML Hex color that's closest
not a picture of the true paint.
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Old Feb 25, 2008 | 10:15 AM
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This might help someone

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Old Feb 25, 2008 | 10:22 AM
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mach green was in fact the oem color that was produced on SA's in most countries where the R-7 was sold..other than the U.S. the color code on that chart is corect as G4.
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Old Feb 25, 2008 | 12:03 PM
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It's like the early colors where more exciting and the later ones just more boring.
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Old Feb 25, 2008 | 12:09 PM
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mach green was in fact the oem color that was produced on SA's in most countries where the R-7 was sold..other than the U.S. the color code on that chart is corect as G4.
its G4 the colour on the first pic I posted?
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Old Feb 25, 2008 | 04:38 PM
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What we should do is in non tech get people to submit pics per each Color code then the moderators etc decide which pic to use as a color example. This also lets you see the bigger effect of light blah blah (suggestion). Make the example view the same I.E. Pix size and angle (front end from the side?).
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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by -xlr8planet-
its G4 the colour on the first pic I posted?
i would have to say that i believe that it is.
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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 11:08 AM
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Here's my G4 SA.



Vashner is right, the early colors were more exciting.
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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 11:18 AM
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heres what E6 "beat black" looks like full size
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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 01:40 PM
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i do like the earlier colors. they had a lot of character!!
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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 01:45 PM
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i'd really like to see that M3, Imperial Gold in a full size pic.
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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 01:53 PM
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here's M4, Solar Gold on my 80 LS:

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Old Mar 21, 2008 | 09:41 AM
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Sorry to bring this post back up from the dead but that is one Gorgeous FB
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Old Mar 26, 2008 | 12:04 PM
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^^ That would be an SA, not an FB.
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