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Anyone got a Bahama Yellow car I can look at
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:10 pm
by Martin s
Hi,
I am having trouble getting Bahama Yellow right, I have got spray outs but they all look so different. Does anyone have a car (preferably original paint) I could take a look at. I am based in Buckinghamshire but will travel. Thanks in advance.
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Re: Anyone got a Bahama Yellow car I can look at
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:36 pm
by 912uk
im in the same boat..
Re: Anyone got a Bahama Yellow car I can look at
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 7:14 pm
by 210bhp
It's not an original paint car but Darren and his master paint man did a fabulous job of painting Jamies 912 to bahama yellow. I can imaging that it's a close to perfect to the original colour knowing Darren.
Look at Jamies huge restoration thread around page 58 and to my eye it looks a dead on likeness for the correct shade.
Regards
Mike
Re: Anyone got a Bahama Yellow car I can look at
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 9:20 pm
by AndrewSlater
There is also a paint formula on the Darryls Garage website
http://www.darrylsgarage.com/912/912.htm
Re: Anyone got a Bahama Yellow car I can look at
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 9:31 pm
by Martin s
Hi, thanks all. I got the first spray out to Daryls garage mix in PPG , it looked quite light, then I got PPG standard Bahama yellow mix and it was so much warmer, almost orange.
Still confused. Daryls mix is bottom and standard PPG at the top.
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Re: Anyone got a Bahama Yellow car I can look at
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 10:09 pm
by 210bhp
In my head the word that best describes the tone of bahama yellow is 'butterscotch'.
Regards
Mike
Re: Anyone got a Bahama Yellow car I can look at
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 1:05 pm
by marleybones
The one on the bottom looks closer. Here are some pics of my 69 bahama-mama...
IMG_2848 by
interactiveMedia, on Flickr
IMG_3513 by
interactiveMedia, on Flickr
IMG_3103 by
interactiveMedia, on Flickr
Re: Anyone got a Bahama Yellow car I can look at
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:36 am
by leewiffen
Re: Anyone got a Bahama Yellow car I can look at
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 2:35 pm
by Martin s
Hi all,
Thanks for all the input. I sent both samples to a guy in the US who has an original paint car. He compared them both to his car on a bit inside the door jamb. He confirms that the bottom sample is correct - that is the mix from the scan of Darryl's 66 car. The PPG standard Colour is off and too orange.
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Re: Anyone got a Bahama Yellow car I can look at
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:16 pm
by Mike
210bhp wrote:In my head the word that best describes the tone of bahama yellow is 'butterscotch'.
Nah, this is butterscotch!
Re: Anyone got a Bahama Yellow car I can look at
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:22 am
by jamie
Worth contacting Darren65. He is very particular about colour accuracy. One of his painters did my car and it looks great.
Before this, I painted it with the PPG mix and the shade was ugly as hell.
