So what are the colors?
The color research is beginning to pay off. From Carter Hendricks comes a xerox of a 1990 article in an Italian magazine, which says: “ from work by Elvira Ruocco & others… who worked to transfer old Fiat, Lancia and Alfa paint color codes to current Lechler and other color codes.” So here are the 1990 Lechler codes for the Aurelias B20’s from that article (my transcribing, but their exact words!). There are some later corrections from Lechler in Italy from recent correspondence, indicated by ( ). One can assume the later numbers are more likely to be correct, but take care!
B20 1, 2 series:
- Argento Aureuil metall. 1325
- Celeste Ardenza metall. 1327
- Grigio Inglewood met. 8001
- Grigio Marones 8021
- Grigio Albany metallizz. 1358
- Grigio Newmarket met. 1338
- Grigio York 33
- Grigio Tor di Valle 1336
- Grigio Cascine 1334
- Grigio Montebello 8042
- Grigio Vinovo 1335
- Grigio Laurel Park 13 (1181)
- Grigio Belmontpark 57 (8083)
- Blu Scuro 1195 (Lechler uses same number called Grigio Scuro)
- Beige 1077
For the B20 s. 3,4,5 (6 isn’t listed separately):
- Celeste 8012
- Grigio Newmarket met. 1338
- Grigio Chiaro, V/VI series 1194
- Grigio Metal.,V/VI series 104 (Lechler calls this Grigio Milano Metal.)
- Blu Scuro 8015
- Blu 1179
- Azzuro, V/VI serie 1173
- Amaranto 8027 (1176)
- Rosso La Plata 1360
- Avorio 1196
- Beige 1077
- Verde 8013
- Nero 122
A few more thoughts:
A Max Meyer colorwheel from the 1950’s lists some of these paints, but with older (no longer valid) numbers. In that wheel, the “Lancia Blue” is listed as MM # 1.272.7069, and is probably the same as the Blu above.
And the Lancia beige is probably the same as Max Meyers’ “Beige Mirabello” (old # 1.252.3918). Jean-Pierre Baumgartner sent me the following sample which he said had some 30+ years of age on it:
For the B24, we have a color wheel (image from Steve Katzman) with the following paints:
color wheel with better color correction
- B24 Spider color wheel
The colors are the older MM paint codes and names for which we do not have the Lechler equivalents, but here they are regardless:
- Grigio Metall, – 16.249
- Rosso Capri- 10.593
- Verde Alassio – 13.665
- Celeste Portofino- 10.573
- Grigio Forte del Marmi- 10.702
- Avorio Riccione- 12.002
For other information on colors, such as Flavia colors and Fulvia colors (Lechler #’s and Lancia #’s) can be found in either Viva Lancia’s online library, or in: the Lancisti Community, look in their library and search for colors. Paul Mayo has also done quite a bit of work on colors.
For Ardea and Appia colors – a detailed list of Max Meyer paints can be found in the book by Puttini & Fornai, published by Nada.
A Max Meyer color wheel in England is shown below, but again numbers from MM are not translated to current paint codes. So its an interesting period piece, but of little direct help.
What is the code for Amarante Montebello paint colour please ?
Christopher Tay
March 28, 2021 at 12:37 am
Thanks a lot.
We are restoring a B24 S *1086* is born in 1955 light gray
but we are not able to find the color paint code.
Can you hjelp me?
Thanks
Stefano Coratelli
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April 4, 2023 at 9:36 pm