Body color, is this wedgewood blue ?

PostPost by: crypto » Thu Mar 26, 2015 6:53 pm

Is this wedgewood blue or a non standard color ?
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Thanks, Peter
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PostPost by: Spyder fan » Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:12 pm

It looks more like French Blue L02 to me, certainly a non standard Sprint colour scheme, but you could have whatever you wanted back in the day. The sill bottoms are not Matt/ satin black, therefore suspect a later respray.
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PostPost by: elanfan1 » Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:32 pm

Wedgwood is I believe a paler more sky blue.
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PostPost by: dunclentdr » Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:25 pm

...this is French Blue...
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PostPost by: Famous Frank » Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:38 pm

Peter,
The color in your pics looks a little on the light blue side although when looking at colors on a PC is like looking at a football game in a department store with 20 TV's on display against a wall. All on the same channel but they look a bit different.

I have repainted my Elan Wedgewood Blue (at least that's what I think it is) I matched the color found in the can of Lotus Touch Up Paint. It's part number A036B6431S. At least that's the best I can make out on the can.

Here are a couple of pics.

More importantly, paint it the color that makes you happy!

Are you going with a Sprint scheme or ??? Let's see a couple pics of your car!

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PostPost by: pharriso » Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:40 pm

Peter that's the federal coupe that was on bring a trailer here in the us, did you buy it?
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PostPost by: Famous Frank » Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:42 pm

Another paint can pic. This was found buried in the trunk of my car many years ago.

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PostPost by: persiflage » Fri Mar 27, 2015 5:28 pm

Whatever colour it is , I think the car looks great. :D
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PostPost by: crypto » Fri Mar 27, 2015 7:28 pm

Gentlemen, thanks for your input !

I'm trying find a nice blue color :lol: We had the original Lagoon blue mixed in the paint shop today. But it looked to dark for me. The French blue and Medici blue are a little to much baby blue and Royal blue is to dark. As I have a Sprint, the color combo will be as in the pics above, but did not decide about the particular blue.

Phil, I got the pics from the Bat website but I did not buy the car ! Maybe the buyer/current owner is also on this forum and could provide me with some pics ? I very much like this blue/grey but did not even decide if its going a metallic paint or not. This also looks good:
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PostPost by: billwill » Fri Mar 27, 2015 7:37 pm

Woah, be careful all of you.

The colour that we see on screen, vesrus the actual colour of the car will vary widely depending on what camera you used and what screen settings are being used to see it and what kind of screen you have.

So you can't really trust colour matchin in the way you asked. The only accurate way would be to get a colour chart or colour meter and hold it up to the paint on the car.
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PostPost by: delle » Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:43 am

If you choose a color, don't look at pics! My S4 looks very pale inside the workshop and very blue in sunlight,
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PostPost by: Jason1 » Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:05 pm

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I can barely remember what mine looks like it has been covered in the garage for so long.
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PostPost by: richardcox_lotus » Sun Mar 29, 2015 9:32 am

My Lagoon Blue can go through major shade changes based upon the ambient lighting.

One of the reasons why I like it

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PostPost by: denicholls2 » Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:20 pm

Of all the pictures as viewed on my color-corrected monitor, the "Sprint" that started the thread is the closest to Wedgewood. Caveat: I'm not comparing this to a faded 50-year old car painted in Lotus' interpretation of Wedgewood, or a color-match from a chip of 40-year old paint, but an actual piece of Wedgewood. A very tranquil color.
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PostPost by: jono » Tue Apr 14, 2015 4:24 pm

Wedgwood Blue
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