GT4 Colour Opinions

well, the time has come to choose an exterior colour for my 1975 GT4 restoration project and i would really appreciate some feedback. unfortunately, it is not just a matter personal preference, as this car will be for sale...or at least that's what i'm telling myself now. i'm going to limit myself to period offered colours from the factory so the question is, do i really have a choice or do i have to paint it red ? will i be able to sell it if i paint it silver or perhaps a dark blue ( Pozzi like or what i like to call 'Hans Blue' ). will a colour other than red appeal to a 'wide' market or do they limit me to a very specific buyer in an already very specific market. i don't want to ' paint myself into a corner ', as it were. the interior is fixed, a mix of new and refreshed black leather. since these pic's were taken the quarter glass, chrome trim and all weatherstrip/seals have been removed.
does anyone have one of those factory swatches from the 1970's with the paint chips that they could photo and post ? thanks.
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i'm gonna have to figure out what the original colour was...even stripping it did not give it away. this car has been repainted at great expense at least once if not twice. we're finding two different colours in some of those really deep, dark places. really not sure about original but i'll dig deeper.
thanks guys.
how do you feel about changing shades within a particular colour ? same as a complete change or not ?

 

Jim,
i **** you not, that looks very close to one of the two colours that we believe the car was originally was... incredible... man, F-chat really has changed everything. thanks for posting those pics. i may be able to follow the Heritage certificate AND have that colour. it was really hard to tell, in some spots it seemed like like one colour must have been original and in others not. certainly it was stripped before. likely the mid to late '80s...the only time it ever made 'sense' to do such a thing.
i think there is/was a little more silver in the blue on my car, like an 'ice' blue...like the 400a owners manual if you've seen one. i'll take a pic of my manual and post it later ( i'm dividing my time between the blaster, the paint booth and the computer right now ). i think colour that would be stunning over black hides.
man, that second 246 pic is so sweet i can almost hear it from here. beautiful silencer too. i got it real bad for these cars...

 

a couple of pics after a new parts inventory and a days worth of cleaning, blasting and painting.
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and a few more...
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yes, very close but a little more silvery is what i had in mind. that is a great picture of a very beautiful car. thanks for posting it.

 

well, yes and no actually. yes, it will be a stunner. a zero rust, virtually as new 1975 GT4. how many of those do you think there are?
but no, i won't necessarily be behind and no, i didn't get the car for free. i do wish i got it for $3000 less though. i have a very unique situation and an, how shall i put it, extreme passion for the marque. you see my time is free. i have a fantastic young mechanic who puts in the full time hours while i do my 'regular' sales gig, and then i put in whatever hours i can, which do not 'add up'. i do all the cleaning, blasting and simple painting as my therapy on the weekends. it goes quite fast when you have the right 'gear'. he does everything else and i never cease to be amazed. so we do everything inhouse including our cylinder heads.
so this begs the question, what is a restored ( and this has to qualify ) GT4 worth ? this car has rebuilt heads, a fully serviced tranny with 2 new syncros and resurfaced flywheel, new clutch/t-out bearing/pressure plate, new Diff. bearings, rebuilt carbs, rebuilt calipers, rebuilt steering rack, rebuilt distributors, bare metal repaint, lots of new leather, etc.,etc.,etc.
there are lots of other parts but they were either already installed or i just couldn't fit them on them on the bench.
what do you think would be a reasonable price ? you'd be really surprised if i told you.
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well, actually, i was wrong...none of you seem to be surprised. i thought you'd guess more ; ) i always had $45,000 Can. in mind as a selling price. i'm going to stick with that even though the walnut blasting took way longer then i anticipated. we also decided to replace all the guides and seals which was not necessarily in the original plan where the heads were concerned. the motor was really, really strong with very good numbers but we found both an intake and and an exhaust valve that leaked just a little more than we were comfortable with, so the heads got the full treatment. on the plus side we got lucky with the tranny. it only 'needed' 2 syncros as it had clearly been done fairly recently. 1,4,5 were above 80% spec. even 2 and 3 were 60-70 % but...did 'em anyway. it seems we're doing a lot of that.
there are also a couple of things that could send the price slightly higher if purchaser stepped in and requested them, like Stainless valves, ceramic coated headers and new rear seat leather. the front seats got it, but the doors, rears and all the other trim bits just got a nice redye (for now). i'm going to remove the A-arms, blast and paint them today and start pressing in all the new bushings.
i could add more pics later for those who follow this kind of stuff. is there an interest in more pics ? the whole process is documented but i'd have to resize them. here's a few in the meantime.
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it occurrd to me that i should pull out my Original V8 book...as i mutter "Dumbass" to myself. anyhoo, it really is a much smaller colour selection then i would have thought. 2 solid blues (blu scurro dino and azzurro dino), 3 metallics (blu dino, blu sera and azzuro metalizzato) and 1 silver ( auteil ?)
can anyone chip in with pics of these ? on page 20 there is a small pic of a 208GT4 rear bonnet script on a blue that might be a contender and furthermore, may have been the original colour. i've attached a pic of my 400a manual because it is the colour i would really like to paint the car. the pic may not convey it but it is a suttle metallic, but is it one of the above mentioned metallics ? IMHO, it would be beautiful over black hides.
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