Hi all

My Clubbie is about to head off to the painters to have a repaint. I had intended to have it resprayed the original Jet Red however having now seen the colour unfaded, touched up etc for the first time I am not so sure anymore.

It appears to be quite a pinkish red under some lights and more orangey under others. Not the more Tartan red that I had in mind that it was.

Can anybody confirm that Jet Red is a quite light (pinkish) red?

Thanks
Stu

Howdy

The reason for the Jet Red looking pink or orange is because the colour base that makes up the final colour is orange. Tartan Red has a blue base so will fade but maintain a true red in apperance as opposed to fading to an orange.

Cheers

Steve

I am going to spray my van red and wanted a pure red like on Ferraris. Toyota do a colour like that on their early MR2 range. I believe it was used on some of their other cars as well.

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Ferrari's and all true sports cars are blue based reds, If you go red before they mix the colour just ask if its a blue base. Its pretty easy to spot. when next out on the road look at all the red cars and it wil become crystal clear.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve, I had no idea that that was how they mixed the paints. Always assumed that a red paint would have a red base. It definately explains the way some of the original paint had faded.

Cheers
Stu

I used to have one of those 1987 MR2 in red. Very nice colour. My wife t-boned a slugma that came out of a side street (it was the slugmas fault not hers) so the front end was redone, including new bonnet and bumper, then we got caught in the massive sydney hailstorm. Had to have the whole car redone again, another new bonnet. It looked soooo good after it was done cost $4500 six years ago. Shame you are over in the land of the long white cloud, i would recommend this guy in wollongong who did the work. As i took it to be inspected by the insurance company, some guy walked up on the street and was asking who did it so he could get a car of his done by the same guy, he was physically drooling.

But i digress. That red would look sensational on a mini IMO.

good luck
michael

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My Cooper S is jet red and the colour is not pinkish at all. In fact the reason I chose jet red was because it is such a vivid colour. It ran in 1975 in red but the shade was unknown. Check around at a few shows. If anything jet red has an orange hue to it, but it is damn bright, and looks the part with the white roof.

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Have to agree with Steve



Not sure on those shades but with paint (artistic) you basically have six primaries. listed in colour/base

Red/yellow
red/blue
blue/yellow
blue/red
yellow/red
yellow/blue

So never assume if your mixing paint that yellow and blue will make green. They can make something completely different depending on the base.

Cheers

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good point worth remembering

My car is Jet Red, (resprayed- original colour)- when I took it for rego, the RTA insisted it was orange, not red.
Who was I to argue..

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