Which red paint? Ideas please.

[EskimoArapaho]

I've got a car that needs some bodywork, and I want to get it resprayed in red. Solid red (not candy/metallic/pearl/etc). I like Rosso Corsa, and it would be right for the car, but after Googling for images, it seems there must be several versions. Did it change over the years?

Basically, I'm after something that is what I would call a 'blood red' - deep and scarlet, and definitely not an orangey red. Never had a car sprayed before, so I haven't got a clue how to proceed and spec it for the bodyshop. There are a few RAL colours that look fairly close (see 3000/3001/3003 in this not very good but gives an idea of what I mean http://www.southernpowdercoating.com/images/color_... image)

Any guidance? Anyone know a modern 'blood red' by any current car manufacturer?

I know Formula Red (Honda) and Signal Red (Mercedes), and a shade or two deeper than the latter is the direction I'm heading in.

(And it would be garaged so I'm not too worried by the notorious red paint fade.)

[Squiggs]

If you go to your local friendly bodyshop the chances are they'll have colour swatches - if they've kept it up to date there'll be about 40,000 of them.
You should be able to find what you want if you flick through them.

[Chris_VRS]

Ferrari's Rosso Corsa has evolved over the years. The older variants are paint code 300 & the newer cars 430> are paint code 322.

[kds keltec]

Chris_VRS said:

Ferrari's Rosso Corsa has evolved over the years. The older variants are paint code 300 & the newer cars 430> are paint code 322.

there are 14 shades variants of 322 in PPG as per what a ferrari Enzo was painted in.

Then add into the mix all those different rosso corsa colours/codes there are (without including variants(shades) then you have loads to chose from.

This is standard shade rosso corse 322 in ppg colour range if it helps the OP ?.






These are all rosso corsa and when next to each other very different reds .






kelly

[EskimoArapaho]

Thanks chaps. I have now found a couple of useful references (although the computer screen is notoriously unreliable, they give an idea of how tiny amounts of blue change the colour so much):

http://www.color-swatches.com/ferrari/1984/rosso-c...
http://encycolorpedia.com/d40000

Time to get along to a paint shop...

[Honestherbert]

Most decent bodyshops will have their own coulour swatches for whatever paint scheme they have fitted, pick one based on reputation and ask them to let you choose As mentioned above, there are sometimes a lot of variations for the same colour, anything upto 15 is not abnormal, all depending where/when the vehicle was built/painted originally

[EskimoArapaho]

Thanks. For some reason I didn't see those photos when I last posted. (!) It does seem that the colour has got a bit more 'orangey' (comparing the Enzo to '80s Ferraris)

In a week, I will get the car out of hibernation and start prepping for the Summer, so I'll take it to a few bodyshops and see how professional they appear. One forumite has recommended http://www.lustrecoatings.co.uk/paint.html in Norfolk and it's near Omicron who I also intend to see.

[cringle]

A friend has a 25th Anniversary Golf in a lovely rosso-type red. May be called Tornado Red. Might want to google it!