[Roadsters] Two FairladyZ, 55 years apart

[Ronnie Day]

Alvin, IMO that color is silver, not gray. I'd planned to paint our 2000
the Silverstone Metallic color used by Honda on the S2000. I think that
color would look great on a Roadster, with either red or saddle interior.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 4:20 PM Gordon Glasgow via Datsun-roadsters <
datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> wrote:

> I like that a lot better. It strikes me as more silver than grey. Some of
> these others make me think "interior semi-gloss latex."
>
> Back in the day (1998) Brian Cano brought his 69 2000 to Shasta. It had
> the most spectacular SILVER! paint job I've ever seen! It looked like
> molten silver just poured out of a ladle. I wish I had a picture that did
> it justice, but I don't.
> On 2/10/2022 1:15 PM, krakauer.agency at gmail.com wrote:
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> Gordon,
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> How about 666?
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> Jerry Krakauer
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> SRL311 00099
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> *From: *RWM via Datsun-roadsters <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net>
> *Sent: *Thursday, February 10, 2022 4:01 PM
> *To: *Gordon Glasgow <gsglasgow at comcast.net>
> *Cc: *roadster list <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [Roadsters] Two FairladyZ, 55 years apart
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> 531 beige gray (silver) metallic was the best roadster color I’ve ever
> seen.
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> Of course it was my first roadster, so…
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> - Bob Mann, ‘68 2000 Solex
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> On Feb 10, 2022, at 15:55, Gordon Glasgow via Datsun-roadsters
> <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> The ones I've seen appear to be solid grey, no metallic.
>
> There are some metallic silver-grey or charcoal grey colors that I like,
> but so many of these new colors appear to be just industrial paint. Think
> HVAC systems or electrical power boxes. I predict they will age about as
> well as the earth tones of the mid 1980's.
>
> On 2/10/2022 12:27 PM, Steve Brohard wrote:
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> Is the new color a metallic silver blue or is it a solid gray?
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> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 2:14 PM Gordon Glasgow via Datsun-roadsters <
> datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> Not a fan. I'm seeing quite a few new cars in similar shades of grey. I
> haven't seen one yet that I thought looked good.
>
> On 2/10/2022 7:48 AM, Alvin Gogineni via Datsun-roadsters wrote:
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> Trust me Pat, it works really well!
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> Michael Spreadury is building sn SR20-powered '66 in a similar shade:
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> https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51868823066_8fd56277f1_b.jpg
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> https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51786249318_6fa722038d_b.jpg
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> It changes in varying light....to almost the same color shift as the
> original roadster silver-gray color #666, like Eric' '68
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> https://www.zcarblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_8987-1536x1152.jpeg
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> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 7:33 AM Pat Horne <patintexas at icloud.com> wrote:
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> Looks like a great match for that car. Funny, I don’t think it would work
> on a roadster!
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> Peace,
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> Pat
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> Pat Horne
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> On Feb 10, 2022, at 9:28 AM, Alvin Gogineni via Datsun-roadsters <
> datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> Nissan just released photos of a new paint color for the 2023 Z.
> Photographer Larry Chen shot the new Z at Nissan Design America in San
> Diego, California:
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> http://www.zcarblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2023-Nissan-Z_Boulder-Gray-18.jpg
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> What's cool is that I took photos of my Datsun Roadster in the same exact
> location back in 2016 when I was running the Touge California Rally:
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> https://www.zcarblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/IMG_4374.jpg
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> :)
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