patrice

Hi all's

I'm looking for about MECOM team, paint reference for it Blue car color, , This team run during sixties with corvette, any information according this team will be appreciate


je suis à la recherche de la reférence du code couleur bleu de l'écurie MECOM ( Corvette / ferrari 250 LM / Mc Laren Elva / Scarab etc.... ). Cette équipe US courait dans les années 60 / 65 notamment le challenge " BAHAMAS SPEED WEEK "



thanks for your help

patrice

Easy Rhino

Are you looking to find what color blue the Corvette(s) that raced in the Bahamas were?

I have seen pictures, not sure if they were color pictures, but somebody around here should be able to help.

jim lockwood

Patrice,

The Mecom team blue used at Bahamas Speed Weeks in '63 was a Cadillac color. It is very close to the color of the car in my avatar.

Jim

63Corvette

I hope this will help with your color. Like Jim says, it is a 1963 Cadillac color.

patrice

Hi

Thanks, I 'll try to find in france !!

have a nice week

patrice

Easy Rhino

http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcod...llac&year=1963

Looks like it might be "Basque Blue" in 1963 Cadillac colors.

fyreline

The official Mecom Racing color was "1959 Cadillac Pelham Blue, with added metallic flake". . . This according to Karl Ludvigson's new 2014 edition of "Corvette - America's Star-Spangled Sports Car", Page #430.

TCracingCA

Available in 1960, but it was a metallic already! When Patterson did his restore on the #003 car, Automotive Enterprises mixed it up for that original restoration.

fyreline

Yep, you're correct - the GM charts show it as a 1960 Cadillac color, not 1959 as Karl's book shows. Shouldn't be too difficult to have mixed.

rfn026

When the Collier car was painted they took great pains to not do a great paint job. They wanted to create the original color and the original lack of quality. It looks great.

We have far too many cars that are really historical fictions.

Richard Newton
Historic Racing Images

TCracingCA

Thus if you guys want, I can give you all of the errors in Karl's books! I guess that is what happens when you write so many really truly great ones!

TCracingCA

My cars must really be historically correct, because that Collier Paint Job is better than what I have done!

ianrand

Richard is on point with his comment. If anyone's interested (and hopefully many are) details about the effort that went into #004's authentic paint work can be found here: http://www.racingicons.com/gs/004/004-30.htm

If you scroll forward or backward from that page, there's a lot more stuff to be seen about #004's state of the art restoration.

The Collier Museum & REVS Institute (partnership w/ Stanford) are on the cutting edge regarding preservation & restoration. Plus, they put their cars (including GS#004) on tracks like Goodwood, Monterey, Lime Rock, Elkhart Lake, Daytona & Barber (often with veteran drivers) so little guys like us can enjoy seeing them in action. IMHO, a visit to their Naples FL facility should be on every car guys bucket list.

63Corvette

I concur..............

patrice

Hi all's

I've given an order to steering box rebuilt kit

my steering box is open cleaned
well I've seen on youtube some video about this fit, also read some posts but some points stay in dark

can you explain me how to adjust the gap between top cover screw and pitman axel, where I put shims between the screws and pitman axel or betwwen scew and cover

Have you some specifics remarks to help me
all yours comments are a great help for me

have a nice day

patrice

sorry it's a wrong link