HELP ME

[Tim]

I am tryin 2 find the color name of the eaton yale works escorts, can any 1 help me cheeRS

[nugnah]

blue i think, lol , sorry mate can't help you.
good luck Jason

[KL]

I recall the cars actually being a much more "greyish" blue than it now appears on most pictures. Have you contacted Eaton? - their axle business was sold a few years ago? but it may still be their corporate colour. The 1978 RAC Rally cars were built outside Boreham during a Ford strike, one in Eaton colours by Sutton, the other in Eaton colours by Thomas Motors?? If Historic Motorsport (or whatever the Sutton organisation is called now) cant help,only someone who was at Boreham in78 or 79 could? Graham Robson (grahamrobson@compuserve.com) could probably list all the times cars appeared in Eaton colours but probably wouldn't know the paint name/code.

[Tim]

i have emailed dave sutton and he doesnt know what the color was called, ill try graham robson

[KL]

Have you checked the Eaton Corporation website blue colour? It is possible there were different shades of blue on the cars? For example, 78 RAC car build may have been started at Boreham before being moved out during strike. 79 RAC cars would have been Boreham-built entirely and 80 RAC car entirelyby Sutton.

[KL]

Tried to upload picture of 78 and 80 RAC cars - only used to a direct upload system and not sure what went wrong.

[nugnah]

create a file on www.photobucket.com for yourself and put your pics in there, then upload to this site.

[Banishit]

go here http://www.redslate.co.uk/upload/

put in your email as it says then browse to the picture on your PC then click UPLOAD and give it time if you are on 56K modem as it has to transfer the picture to the server even ADSL takes a few seconds

then the email will come back to you with the link to post the image eg

h**p://www.rs2000.plus.com/images/pics/rs.jpg but you will have to put the [IMG] [/IMG ] brackets before and after the link eg

[img]h**p://www.rs2000.plus.com/images/pics/rs.jpg[/img]

Please NOTE you must have the "tt" instead of the **'s I have they are just there so you can see the links

Brian

[Miniliteman]

Hi,

think it was RAL5003 , as we did a car in that colour years ago.

Leon.

[Tim]

RAl5003 is that a ford paint code

[dasadrew]

RAL = Reichs-Ausschuss für Lieferbedingungen. It's a German standards system created in 1925 and now widely used for colour definition (sort of like British Standard 381C with a pointed helmet on). Any paint shop will be able to mix a RAL colour as they are sort of a worldwide standard now.

[Deepest Blue]

RAL 5003: Sapphire Blue.

ICI/Nexa Paint code: CA52

CheeRS Neil.

[dasadrew]

got my suspicions about that colour - have a look on this site. It gives you the RGB values for the coulours which you can dial in to your graphics tool (Paint Shop Pro etc.) This RAL colour is almost black!

http://home.arcor.de/olaf.petera/index.html?/olaf.petera/ral.html

[dasadrew]

just had an anti-bufty thought ....

these original cars were around about 30 years ago, right? So, with the possible exception of some multiply repainted, weathered, faded, example somewhere, the general expectation of what colour it should be is either a 30 year old memory, or a colour photo. You could just take one of these photos, pick a spray can off the Halford's shelves and choose a colour which "looks the part". Then order that colour. You'd also have the spray can for touching up! You'd have a car which looks like everyone 'remembers', and would your enjoyment really be any less?

Perhaps if you were actually restoring one of the originals then it might be different, but 75% of the rest of your bits won't be the identical same manufacturer etc. as the original, anyway.

I had a job building museum models of vintage aircraft where only black and white fotos existed. I soon learned that all the research to discover that the 'plane was in fact 'gloss light grey' didn't do any good if Joe Public was expecting it to be silver - "like (he thought it was) in the photos"!

PS. sorry for rambling on a bit..... yawn, zzzzzzzzzz!

[Tim]

i work in halfords so i have looked at all the color in the rackin and the 40000+color in a paint books