280i paint code or maker/name

[cfsah]

I have a 1986 280i US model. It is brown. Can anyone help me with where this paint would have come from? I would like to repaint it with the correct colour.

Thank you

Jim

[norway_triumph]

there are a paint code list e here
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

but WHERE di i fint the code on the car (repainting a black s1 wedge) and theres many "black" in the list

[Grady]

If you 'knew' the original paint color name those lists might be helpful but between them there must be 20 reds (my color).

I'm trying to think of a small painted but not faded part you could take in and have matched.

First Wedge I ever saw was brown.

Grady

[mrzigazaga]

Mine has a body code FER 190 on the identification plate on the N/S wheel arch..Which i pressume coincides with the red being ferrari red?..I might be wrong..Zig

[Wedg1e]

mrzigazaga said:

Mine has a body code FER 190 on the identification plate on the N/S wheel arch..Which i pressume coincides with the red being ferrari red?..I might be wrong..Zig

More likely Fire Engine Red.. the 190 was probably the ICI code for it as that's whose paint TVR mostly used.

[mrzigazaga]

Thanks for spoiling the dream..Only joking..At least its an easy colour to find..All i need now is a couple of blue flashing lights and a bell..Oh and a pair of steps on top..wont fit a ladder on it..
Mind you just found a ferrari paint code Rosso Chiaro 190..

Edited by mrzigazaga on Tuesday 31st May 16:57

[TOPTON]

I sent my fuel flap to these people

http://www.autopaintsbrighton.co.uk/custom-hand-ma...

and got a perfect match for colour. The colour code on the car, KV52 kept coming back as 'itallian red' or even 'monza red'. Itallian red has too many combinations and monza red was too dark and also was made with lead as an addative so couldn't be mixed to original

[Wedg1e]

mrzigazaga said:

Mind you just found a ferrari paint code Rosso Chiaro 190..

Well, like most things TVR, nothing's set in stone...