Musson, Carl wrote:
>
> But Pantone Red 1115 is the same regardless of where you get the color
> chart. True, the color as viewed on a monitor make look different.
> This is also true with the Dockers or ICI numbers. Those colors are
> formulated to specific portions of basic colors. Triumph Conifer
> Green; or "TRue" Signal Red made with the correct formula will look the
> same to all. Well, that isn't true. How you perceive a color may be
> different than how I do. That is particularly true of Blues & Greens.
> But that is another subject.
>
> Bottom Line - A color you like is the best way to go... m2cw.
>
> Later,
> Carl F. Musson,
>
> You can't tell which way the car went
> by just looking at the road...
> TR3A's - TS25264L ('58 Almost Daily Driver)
> & TS81802LO - ('61 Concours d'Wannabe)
> Tampa, Florida (USA)
> http://www.arts.usf.edu/~musson/triumph/
> <http://www.arts.usf.edu/~musson/triumph/>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Gentry [SMTP:tgentry@execpc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 2:25 PM
> To: 'Robert M. Lang'
> Cc: 'triumphs@autox.team.net'
> Subject: RE: BRG paint
>
> >>If you are going to spray your car, spray it a color that _you
> like_. <<
>
> I agree 100%. Personally, it doesn't matter to me if the car is
> the original color, as long as it's a color I like. I've had numerous
> comments on the color of my TR-6, all good. More than one person has
> said something along the lines of, "If they didn't come in that color
> they should have."
>
> >>I would like it if there was a real color standard so you
> could
> say: it's 1115 Pantone Red. Then we could all "see" the same
> color (in that
> it would be repeatable).<<
>
> The problem here is that we don't all "see" the same color when
> looking at the same object. We would need color meters to actually
> check, and then a color simulator to see for ourselves what the color
> looks like. Incidentally, the color meters already exist and give a
> reading showing the intensity of each primary color. Some colors are
> impossible to reproduce on CRTs so the simulator might take some doing.
>
> Tom Gentry
> Life is too short to drive boring paint jobs!
> '96 Ford SVT Cobra Mystic #1345 (the coolest paint ever, and not
> available at the local body supply)
> '72 Triumph TR-6 OD ('78 Ford Dark Jade Metallic, because I want
> it that way)
> '59 Triumph 10 Sedan (mostly primer with hints of the black to
> come)
>
I once was at a show where we had 11 "Signal Red" cars side by side, and
you know the answer, 11 different shades of red, for 11 "different"
owners, now you know I would never lie about the true color of my car as
well as any other owner would not also, because we all know there is only
one BRG as well.
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