Colors names and identification

[Elapido]

Hi, I'm planning on buying a Roadsport in a few years. Meanwhile, I'm taking decisions. One of the things that will take forever is choosing the color. I'm a little confused about the color nomenclature and identification. Reading several sources you can see different choices. Now, which is the current official nomenclature? I suppose some of them are different names of the same color. I'm interested in blue and green. The simulation of colors in the Caterham website is really inaccurate. Could you please tell me what's the name/s of the paint color of these cars (see picture attached). First, green. It's not the classic British racing green (dark and desaturated) nor the vivid light green which has some tendency to yellow. It's like a medium green with a touch of turquoise. Second, a blue color, not dark nor very light, but really saturated and pure blue (not like lilac). Thanks, and sorry for my English.

taken from an official price sheet (from cheaper to more expensive)

vintage green, storm blue
viper blue
atomic grass
krypton green
plasma blue, roulette green


from Caterham English site:

caterham green, caterham blue
viper blue, kingfisher blue
roulette green metallic
riviera blue


from Caterham Portugal site:

vintage green, storm blue
viper blue, kingfisher blue
roulette green, riviera blue


Photos of the different colors:
http://www.alvarezeninternet.com/temp/caterham-col...

[Orange Blackbird]

Think the 2nd and third ones down from the top are Honda Irish Green.

Your best betis going and talking to a paint shop. Tony of TSK paints many of the Caterhams01322 441604 , or Townley Panel and Paint do some for the factory as well. http://www.townleypanelandpaint.co.uk/

Nick

[Atomic Gibbon]

aww, you've crossed out roulette green (pic 1). My fave 7 colour =)

[Elapido]

However, in this French forum (http://sevener.fr/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=5260), they say the Roulette green is a different color (very vivid pistachio green, like the one in the top left corner of the attached picture).

As regard the blue color, I think it's the Kingfisher blue. It's like Viper blue, but a little lighter and a bit more to the green in the color spectre. However, some photos show this color darker and other lighter. See:

http://www.alvarezeninternet.com/temp/kingfisher-b...

[andya7]

The blue colour could be 'Lotus Lazer Blue' (had a Caterham resprayed in the same colour a few years back)

[Elapido]

Blue is clearly Kingfisher blue, also known as Pelican Blue, a color by Audi. Some photos are a little dark and make this color look more like a medium blue than it really is. If you google for Audi + kingfisher you will find a lot of photos of cars in this original kind of blue.

I have contacted Caterham and they say the green is Irish green, a Honda color. It seem it's taken from the Irish flag color (pantone 347). It's also called Shamrock green. However, I still don't know if it is actually possible to order the car in that color, since it's not in the official website nor in the official price sheet pdf (at least with the Irish green name). In this case also, if you google for hondas in this colour you will find nothing. Paying a visit to the Honda website doesn't help (the color choice is just black, grey, red and I think that's all).

Edited by Elapido on Friday 18th June 20:45

[mickrick]

Caterham used to have a box to tick for "Non standard colour", Metalic, or solid.
But I see it's not there anymore.
Have you asked them if they'll do non standard colours?
Things have changed since the Venture capitalists, and bean counters have taken over. Not always for the best IMO.
They have improved on the marketing though.
If I had to do it all again, I'd buy a used Arch chassis car, and rebuild. Save all this IVA Bullst!
Get the chassis re-powdercoated/skinned. Then it will be better than new, and you can paint it what colour you like.

Edited by mickrick on Saturday 19th June 09:49

[sfaulds]

Trying to choose colours from pictures on a pc is an absolute waste of time in my experience - you need to see colours in the flesh.