Gulf Paint Samples
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Tomcat
GT Owner
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.
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
GT Owner
Pro_GT_driver
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- Jun 23, 2010
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AJB
GT
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)
I recall they are now an "out of business" company... but still own the color rights?
Any 'Oil Guys " know the status.>?
andy (ajb)
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...
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...
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.
Xcentric
GT Owner
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
GT Owner
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.
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.
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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