Gulf Paint Samples


NSXER

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Received my Gulf paint samples the other day and had a chance to put them against my Gulf GT40 and Gulf 917. As you can see they are much darker. Is the 05/06 Heritage GT Gulf paint darker than the 60/70's Gulf colors?
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Tomcat

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Are you an NSX'r too?
Have you posted pictures/details of your GT40 and 917?
 

Blue Moose

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Are your samples '06 GT Gulf colors?
 

NSXER

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Are you an NSX'r too?
Have you posted pictures/details of your GT40 and 917?
Yes I have an NSX.
No, have not posted yet on GT40/917.

Thanks
Brian
 

NSXER

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Are your samples '06 GT Gulf colors?
Not sure. All the color states is Axalta Code 787219-F (Gulf Blue)
 

06fordgt

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I have the original Gulf paint from 68 and 69 and the sample you rec'd is darker than the original. Mine was too, I don't have the 06 colour to match against but i believe that the sample you rec'd is the same as the 06 year.
 

Ed Sims

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Could it be that the Gulf blue on the '06 GT has faded?

Ed
 

nota4re

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Could it be that the Gulf blue on the '06 GT has faded?

Yeah, because the OP had it parked beside the double-wide until the grass finally grew long enough to offer at least some partial shade!
 

Xcentric

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AJB

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Thank you.....very interesting. Quite a color history. Gulf Oil used to be headquartered in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
I recall they are now an "out of business" company... but still own the color rights?
Any 'Oil Guys " know the status.>?
andy (ajb)
 

GT101

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We had a lot of discussion about this back in 2005/6 as I recall. I obtained some samples from Ford Design centre which were supposedly the colours used on the 2006 car, see below.

Comparing these to a 2006 car the blue looks pretty much spot on - the orange definitely isn't the same as they used in production - that may explain the handwritten note on the back of the sample...

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dbk

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The 05/06 is a different hue, but they've been a bit all over the map. The current Gulf-sponsored Tockwith LMP2 car looks closer to the 06 GT color than the vintage color to me.


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Xcentric

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NSXER

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Thanks for doing a color correction on my pictures but after holding my samples up to your corrected colors, my original pictures are much closer to the samples I received. I also held these samples up to an 06 GT and they are MUCH different.
 

Xcentric

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Thanks for doing a color correction on my pictures but after holding my samples up to your corrected colors, my original pictures are much closer to the samples I received. I also held these samples up to an 06 GT and they are MUCH different.

Of course they will be much closer if you view them in the same light. Unless you have true daylight corrected lamps, artificial light is terrible for evaluating color.

Computer screens are bad too, because there is no color display standard.
 

dbk

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I also held these samples up to an 06 GT and they are MUCH different.

So you've physically put the samples to an 06 Heritage and they were very clearly not the same?

They should be the same, or very close. There's a lot of variability in the 06 Heritages from one panel to the next, but I would expect your sample to be similar. Usually if you look at an 06 Heritage under inspection lighting, the door, b-pillar and clamshell will all be very slightly different, but some have really significant differences, especially depending on environment.

If your sample is definitely *significantly* different across each panel, I would take a pic, send it to your concierge.
 

Blue Moose

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Here is a good comparison. An original hood from the REAL GT40 chassis #1074 with my Heritage. Dave is right. the color has a different hue. IMO, the old color looks more grey, the '06 color much brighter. #1074 now resides in the Larry H. Miller Museum http://www.sportscardigest.com/auction-record-ford-gt40-at-larry-miller-museum/
 

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Sinovac

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Very cool picture of your Heritage.
 

BAT

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