Ferrari 158/64 NART Watkins Glen...again

Hard to say in B&W but I'd suspect they are red.

Added to the normally assigned blue/white for United States entries, possibly to avoid confusion with another car???

NART often did a red/blue strip combo on entries....
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You can see the second NART car does NOT have them, I often vary the markings slightly like this on two identical cars, so you can see which driver is which.....

 

According to the race report in Competition Press:

"Ferrari showed up with four cars painted in genuine American racing colors....the cars were two V8's, a V6, and a V12. Surtees had his choice of the 8's, said they were both three mph slower down the straights than has last year's V6, but went with one anyway. Bandini tried both the 6 and 12, went with the 12..."

So it would seem that one of the V8's run by Surtees had the extra stripes as shown in your picture. The car he used in the race itself did not have the extra stripes.

 

Just as guess: Green...to match the red stripe for the Italian flag. So, the racing colors as well as the national colors would have been represented for both Italy and the US.

 

Would you believe it is light blue?
I don't know how far down the nose it went.
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Judging from the cowl on the "8" car in the background, it looks like they go as far as the number circle.

 

I just asked my Dad - who was at that race, they used to keep the Ferrari's down in Watkins Glen, and on Friday Practice he was following the team up the hill in his Porsche... as they drove the cars up to the track.

He confirmed all stripes were blue - he could not remember the exact shade of blue, but thought that it may be becuase of Surtees having a test car as well as race cars and the 512 V12 at the track. he said they ran the V-12 on Friday but saturday or the race. there were no red Ferrari's at all in North America that year.