right got a broom yellow bonnet to paint, only problem is theres 3 variants of it, the paint name for broom yellow is gianello ginestra... theres a normal shade lighter and greener shade. anyone know which one the cinq is by any chance? 
General Paint: broom yellow 3 variants
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General Paint: broom yellow 3 variants
IIRC the paint code is 252.
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thought it was 258/a
I knew it was 25.. something. Had 252 in my head for some reason.
Well there you go, you have the code. only one colour will match it.
Well there you go, you have the code. only one colour will match it.
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i know all this! but theres 3 variants and i have nothing broom yellow to match it to! so wondered if anyone else knew
so wondered if anyone else knew
How can there be 3 variants? I dont get you?
When I've bought broom yellow paint before there has been only one...
When I've bought broom yellow paint before there has been only one...
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I'll look in the morning for you if i remember
the a will be the shade will it not? i thought there was 7 shades
It's Giallo Ginestra which is, literally, Broom Yellow in Italian! :bang:
I dunno about Broom Yellow, but there are 2 shades of Metalic Orange listed in most paint catalogues.
If the panel is to be matched to others, they'll likely have faded or darkened anyway. Best match to them............
I dunno about Broom Yellow, but there are 2 shades of Metalic Orange listed in most paint catalogues.
If the panel is to be matched to others, they'll likely have faded or darkened anyway. Best match to them............
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I know of 5 brum yellow cars (2 Mk1 Puntos, a Cinq' and two Sei's), all of them are diffrent shades of yellow & I know 3 of the cars have the same colour code.
I know of 5 brum yellow cars (2 Mk1 Puntos, a Cinq' and two Sei's), all of them are diffrent shades of yellow & I know 3 of the cars have the same colour code.
:yeahthat: I used to work in a paint factors mixing paint and IIRC there's 1 code for the colour, broom yellow and then the alternative shades are matched by eye to the panel. The cinqs are different shades depending on when they were painted, this is because the paint is bought in in bulk, and although it's supposed to be exactly the same each time, in reality it's not. So each time a factor mixes the paint and it doesn't match they notify the scheme provider, if the scheme provider gets enough "does not match" a shade variant is created that closer matches, hence different paint manufacturers have different numbers of variants available. If you then add fading, which differs between variants, the only way to get a good match is to provide the paint factor with a sample piece of the car. If you haven't got anything broom yellow then you're f**cked and it's gonna be down to luck as to whether it matches the variant/fading.
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cheers cheeq! confirmed what i thought it was
Well just remember that alexs car already has 4000 different shades of broom yellow on it, so adding another isnt going to make much difference
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