Color of Donohue GT350R

[deathsled]

..... photographs can and often do distort the actual color of the car as it appears in real life.  Without an actual paint code, it will be only a best guess.

Even paint codes can be useless today. Paint type/chemistry has changed over the years and the old formulas don't translate well. There has been great strides taken in the ability to scan what is on the car now and letting the computer create a new formula with new paints. The process is accurate enough to match faded areas. It's critical if doing a full restoration rather than matching a panel to scan a door jam or some other area that hasn't been exposed to UV rays.

Yes point well taken.  I had not thought of that variable but you're right.

[CSX2601]

Caspian Blue perhaps?  Or a blend of Guardsman and Caspian?

Sounds like a fun build.

Cheers

[mlplunkett]

Looking at online photos of Caspian Blue cars, you might be onto something. In some of the LMC photos the car looks lighter than the finished color but that could just be the lighting. If I don't find anything else I may shoot for something between the two.

[shelbydoug]

I thought that the car was painted "Penske blue" like the Can Am car was?

What would give you that idea?

It was darker then Guardsman, similar to, if not the same as the "Penske Blue". Who's to say it wasn't the same color?
Did it really matter on a race car then and why would it matter now?

The "SAAC Cobra Registrar" has a unique way of phrasing it. In regards to, 5R105, "That is not the car that left Shelby American new". In effect, it was merely a "caricature" of the original, even as raced.


When "Jocko's" was still racing the Javalin, I thought that blue was too dark compared to the "Donahue car", but no one cared because "it was only a race car"? So really, anyone's guess is as good as any?

[98SVT - was 06GT]

The "SAAC Cobra Registrar" has a unique way of phrasing it. In regards to, 5R105, "That is not the car that left Shelby American new". In effect, it was merely a "caricature" of the original, even as raced.

Larry Zane owned it and stated what he had started life as a new T code (6 cyl) and all the orig 5R105 parts had been transferred onto it. Probably the first rebody.......

[shelbydoug]

The "SAAC Cobra Registrar" has a unique way of phrasing it. In regards to, 5R105, "That is not the car that left Shelby American new". In effect, it was merely a "caricature" of the original, even as raced.

Larry Zane owned it and stated what he had started life as a new T code (6 cyl) and all the orig 5R105 parts had been transferred onto it. Probably the first rebody.......

As I recall, Zane was very honest about what he knew of the car.

Generally speaking across the entire "original race car spectrum" of all makes, total rebuilds from wrecks or even just a bolt are accepting the "changelings" as originals whereas rebodied non-race cars are looked at as lepers or counterfeits.

It is an "interesting" contrast to say the least.

I've heard several original R model owners or team members, say "so what". The point of the R's was they were the "nickel racers" or the time and if you bent up a fender or a door, just put a new Mustang part on it. It was part of the original concept of running a race team on a budget.

Changing over the entire body is just a continuation of the concept but "it isn't the car that left SA new".