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It has to be the lighting in the pic because that car is painted Millennium Yellow which came out in 2000.
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It's MY (Millennium Yellow); indeed it's the lighting that's throwing it off. The NB (Nassau Blue) C5 in the bottom right also appears lighter than what it actually does in person.
A lot of promotional material during that time appears different compared to say taking photographs of something with a modern digital camera. We talked about this quite a bit in a recent thread regarding the issues of photographing NB. Photographing something on 35mm as opposed to taking a photograph of a car with a modern DSLR or even something like your cellphone is going to produce what appears to be different shades of color.
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ssau-blue.html
A lot of promotional material during that time appears different compared to say taking photographs of something with a modern digital camera. We talked about this quite a bit in a recent thread regarding the issues of photographing NB. Photographing something on 35mm as opposed to taking a photograph of a car with a modern DSLR or even something like your cellphone is going to produce what appears to be different shades of color.
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ssau-blue.html
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It's not the lighting in the picture. More than likely it's faded from being on a vendor's table outside for umpteen years. I've seen originals of this same piece that were considerably brighter. I doubt GM would allow a printed piece to be put out that didn't accurately represent their products.
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It's not the lighting in the picture. More than likely it's faded from being on a vendor's table outside for umpteen years. I've seen originals of this same piece that were considerably brighter. I doubt GM would allow a printed piece to be put out that didn't accurately represent their products.
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It's not the lighting in the picture. More than likely it's faded from being on a vendor's table outside for umpteen years. I've seen originals of this same piece that were considerably brighter. I doubt GM would allow a printed piece to be put out that didn't accurately represent their products.
Last edited by JR-01; Dec 14, 2017 at 12:24 PM.
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