[Roadsters] Two FairladyZ, 55 years apart

Fri Feb 11 09:37:46 MST 2022

 Mercedes Anthracite is a very good Metallic Silver.

    On Friday, February 11, 2022, 08:11:55 AM PST, Ronnie Day via Datsun-roadsters <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> wrote:  

 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:

Gordon,

How about 666?

Jerry Krakauer

SRL311 00099

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531 beige gray (silver) metallic was the best roadster color I’ve ever seen. 

Of course it was my first roadster, so…

- Bob Mann, ‘68 2000 Solex 

On Feb 10, 2022, at 15:55, Gordon Glasgow via Datsun-roadsters <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> wrote:

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:

Is the new color a metallic silver blue or is it a solid gray?

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 2:14 PM Gordon Glasgow via Datsun-roadsters <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> wrote:

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:

Trust me Pat, it works really well!  

Michael Spreadury is building sn SR20-powered '66 in a similar shade:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51868823066_8fd56277f1_b.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51786249318_6fa722038d_b.jpg

It changes in varying light....to almost the same color shift as the original roadster silver-gray color #666, like Eric' '68

https://www.zcarblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_8987-1536x1152.jpeg

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 7:33 AM Pat Horne <patintexas at icloud.com> wrote:

Looks like a great match for that car. Funny, I don’t think it would work on a roadster! 

Peace,

Pat

Pat Horne  

We support Habitat for Humanity

 On Feb 10, 2022, at 9:28 AM, Alvin Gogineni via Datsun-roadsters <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> wrote:

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: 

http://www.zcarblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2023-Nissan-Z_Boulder-Gray-18.jpg

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:

https://www.zcarblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/IMG_4374.jpg

:)

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