So what color should the car be? It was originally thought that it could be restored to a traditional Lancia blue with grey wool and blue vinyl.<\/p>\n
Francesco Gandolfi (Aurelia Registry) told me that the car was originally beige, with a hazelnut (noccioli?) cloth interior. Having seen a couple of blue 6C Alfas at Pebble Beach, the idea of returning to the original, more subtle color was appealing. Walt confirmed that there was a light beige paint color on the car, one small little chip he saw over his 30 years of ownership.<\/p>\n
Some bits remained of the original cloth fabric, a nocciolo color, dark brown. Elizabeth at Omicron was quite helpful with some fabric ideas, and confirmed that they have worked with Trinchero in Italy for fabrics. Omicron also has experience with the Italian vinyl, which in some cases is resprayed to the color needed.<\/p>\n
More was known about the interior. But \u00a0what color was the original beige paint? What was beige back then? And what would it be today.<\/p>\n
We started by looking at a borrowed Max Meyer color wheel. But getting from vintage colors to today\u2019s paints is a bit awkward. There are about 12 different beiges on the color wheel, and Lancia did not clearly spell out which one they used.<\/p>\n
Some folks have original paints from their cars. Paul Mayos\u2019s unrestored B20 was beige originally and he’s going to send a chip or two. So too, \u201cGina\u201d, the old s. 1 car from California (ex-Jesse Alexander, now in Switzerland), has a nice vintage beige color on it as well – done by Omicron many years ago. Elizabeth offered to send a few \u00a0paint chips from England so I can see what their beige looked like as well. There is no paint chip book from the early 1950s era to be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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