At 03:26 PM 9/9/96 -0000, you wrote:
>Well,
>
>I just returned Sunday from the All British Car meet in Palo Alto. I was
>hunting for the right red to paint my car. It was surprising to me how
>many people said "Gee... I dunno?". Anywho, I did find a color that
>pushed my buttons. The owner said that he had it painted at a local
>Miracle Auto Body shop. The name of the color is 'Swift Red'. It is a
>little darker than the 'Miata Red' that I saw and also liked.
>
>So I live about 200 miles from the paint shop that painted his car. I
>don't want to take it up there for paint (I plan on stripping everything
>down and towing it to the painter). So, does anyone out there know if
>'Swift Red' is a standard color for anything? I would really like to
>have the paint mix codes so my local paint guy can mix it up himself. I
>thought that Miracle Auto Body might have been a chain although there are
>none in my area. I haven't called the guy in San Jose that painted the
>car I saw. Are paint codes secret? If I just called him up and asked,
>do you think he'd give me the codes?
>
>Any ideas?
>
>TIA
>
>Doug Gaither
I attempted to locate the proper British red for my '61 MGA. The best
advice I received, was to paint it the red in the British flag!! Actually
it's the same red in the American flag. It's not too orange or too blue.
The color turned out to be '93 Corvette Bright Red. It is supposed to be a
good approximation to the red used in '61.
Don Mathis,Ph.D.
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES
donmathis@lucent.com
'61 MGA '37 Bentley
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