Magnetic Red
Le Mans Master
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 6,682
Likes: 144
From: Memphis Tennessee
But....it too is many colors in one based on the amount and type of light. I really dig the gold hue when under direct sunlight or bright "display" lights. But on a cloudy day, or on the evening the car almost looks brown. I guess you can't have everything...damn-it !
Race Director
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 13,421
Likes: 8
From: Lake Mary Florida
They didn't it just evolves from year to year and generation to generation. This year for '08, it is called Crystal Red Metallic. As always a reformulation but a take on the same color strain.
Racer
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 409
Likes: 2
From: The Villages FL
Love the 50th Anniversary Red?
http://www.50thregistry.com/technica...aintcodes.html
From Road and Track:
....To this has been added a special Anniversary Red paint. In brilliant sunlight the color is, well, brilliant, thanks to the use of Xirallic paint technology, which uses flat aluminum oxide flakes to give depth and sparkle to the color. In daylight, the car literally glows like the subtlest of Candy Apple Reds. Unfortunately, under less favorable skies, the brilliance fades and turns the car to almost a muddy brown. The special paint is offset by champagne-colored wheels. This subdued combination is in stark contrast to earlier circus-inspired paint schemes of past anniversary and Indy pace-car models.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article....rticle_id=1005
http://www.50thregistry.com/technica...aintcodes.html
From Road and Track:
....To this has been added a special Anniversary Red paint. In brilliant sunlight the color is, well, brilliant, thanks to the use of Xirallic paint technology, which uses flat aluminum oxide flakes to give depth and sparkle to the color. In daylight, the car literally glows like the subtlest of Candy Apple Reds. Unfortunately, under less favorable skies, the brilliance fades and turns the car to almost a muddy brown. The special paint is offset by champagne-colored wheels. This subdued combination is in stark contrast to earlier circus-inspired paint schemes of past anniversary and Indy pace-car models.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article....rticle_id=1005
Last edited by Buy-Low; Nov 25, 2007 at 11:26 PM.
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