What colour to spray the Deauville? Urgent help required
Discussion
For those of you who haven’t already been bored to tears with my previous postings about the Deauville, it has started its restoration today.
After several delays she now resides at ‘Three Point Four Garage’ in Barnsley who are the only true marque specialists who will ensure her return to loveliness.
As part of the program she needs a re-spray (bare metal) and thus the question to you all, keep original in Maserati Red or to go for something different?
Metallic black or dark metallic blue? She is a big old lump so light colours may not be best, or does the fact she is Italian mean you can get away with it?
Feel free to post pictures of cars in colours which you think would suit it as I need to make up my mind soon and given the costs involved I want to get it right
I actually quite like this colour which was featured in Classic Cars Magazine article about a Pantera last month
Your help is of course genuinely appreciated
After several delays she now resides at ‘Three Point Four Garage’ in Barnsley who are the only true marque specialists who will ensure her return to loveliness.
As part of the program she needs a re-spray (bare metal) and thus the question to you all, keep original in Maserati Red or to go for something different?
Metallic black or dark metallic blue? She is a big old lump so light colours may not be best, or does the fact she is Italian mean you can get away with it?
Feel free to post pictures of cars in colours which you think would suit it as I need to make up my mind soon and given the costs involved I want to get it right
I actually quite like this colour which was featured in Classic Cars Magazine article about a Pantera last month
Your help is of course genuinely appreciated
Sticking with what you've got, as it is the original colour, keeps the car 'correct'. But if you want a change, I'd go darker. That Pantera is nice shade of red, though some older cars don't look right in metallics. My Bristol is painted a non-original solid blue Rolls-Royce colour called Oxford Blue, which I like a lot. It is very dark indeed and looks virtually black in low light, but has a great depth to it in the sun and looks quite distinguished.
Glad you are still enamoured with the old girl.
My normal instincts would be to keep the car original but I think red doesn`t suit the car well. A nice proper Maser`/Lancia blue would work or how about a Huntsman-sharp metallic grey? Red may be the italian colour but all the important eyeties like a nice dark metallic...
My normal instincts would be to keep the car original but I think red doesn`t suit the car well. A nice proper Maser`/Lancia blue would work or how about a Huntsman-sharp metallic grey? Red may be the italian colour but all the important eyeties like a nice dark metallic...
t0ny99 said:
What colour is the interior? This will have some bearing on what suits the exterior...
Although the interior will be re-connolised I am planning on keeping it the same. The Series II Deauville had the same interior as a Maserati Quatroporte and is very much a period feature. Ruffled leather and electric seats decades before that became common place.
Having looked at the helpful input so far, the consensus view is to either keep original or a worst to change to another De Tomaso/ Maserati colour from the period. Something along the lines of an oxford type blue, a deep silver or a dark claret, I am guessing neither would clash to badly with the interior?
Of course the devil in me says to go for something along the lines of ‘Tony The Lambo’s’ suggestion of paint it loud!
Agree on original for the sake of the log book etcc....
My Morgan was originally a signal red which had an orange hue to it....when i rebuilt it I had it sprayed in the correct shade of Rosso Corsa, it looks much better to me!.....
I think a sport Italian red would work better than a maroon/burgundy....the car would elook like an old Daimler rather than a sporty car.
My Morgan was originally a signal red which had an orange hue to it....when i rebuilt it I had it sprayed in the correct shade of Rosso Corsa, it looks much better to me!.....
I think a sport Italian red would work better than a maroon/burgundy....the car would elook like an old Daimler rather than a sporty car.
The purple is a lovely colour - on that car. Problem is it only really works in that dramatic fashion because of the dramatic shape of the car. On a more normal 3 box shape like the Deauville, the purple will look far more drab and humdrum. Think burgundy Omega, and watch your car dissappear before your very eyes. I have a Burgundy A8 for that very reason - Q car, fades into the background, no-one notices you making progess. OK that purple isn't Burgundy (and it is very nice, and about the colour I wish I'd had my Chimaera in), but its more about the shade than the hue. Dark blue would have the same effect.
Depend if you want to fade into the background I suppose, but with a nice motor like that I'd be wanting people to take some notice. The red will do that very nicely thank you!
Depend if you want to fade into the background I suppose, but with a nice motor like that I'd be wanting people to take some notice. The red will do that very nicely thank you!
Black or dark anthracite grey . . . maybe very dark green even. Dark blue is so . . . common :box:
Dark brown reddish would suit fine.
Dark brown reddish would suit fine.
There's a gorgeous Rolls-Royce Carmargue in this month's Classic Cars and Classic and Sportscar mags. It's in an advert from Straight Eight, the upmarket dealers, but this Carmargue is painted a beautiful shade of burgundy, almost purpley. It's not on their website so I can't point you to a picture of it I'm afraid, but check it out if you have either of the mags. (Or go and stand in WHSmugs and read it there!)
I would vote for original color, rather like the red anyway, but color changes generelly hurt value, and are hard to get right - although if you are taking the car apart this is not as big a problem.
But on an expensive restoraton might as well get as much value for your cash as possible so stay original IMHO.
But on an expensive restoraton might as well get as much value for your cash as possible so stay original IMHO.
I used to be decisive but now I’m not so sure!
Decision taken, I’m going with a colour called Rubino Rosso which is a DeTomaso colour used exclusively on the Pantera although of course if sir was spending his considerable wedge on a Deauville sir could have had it any colour he wanted.
We are going to spray an old panel up with it to place along side the car before we fully commit
As things get under way I’m going to keep a photo diary which I will post up for those of you who haven’t been bored to death already
Many thanks for all the input to date folks
Decision taken, I’m going with a colour called Rubino Rosso which is a DeTomaso colour used exclusively on the Pantera although of course if sir was spending his considerable wedge on a Deauville sir could have had it any colour he wanted.
We are going to spray an old panel up with it to place along side the car before we fully commit
As things get under way I’m going to keep a photo diary which I will post up for those of you who haven’t been bored to death already
Many thanks for all the input to date folks
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