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G’day everyone,

Thanks to a bit of prodding by ipg, ek61 and mephious (see http://www.fbekholden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=929)I thought it was about time to have a go at putting a sample colour chart together.

I was hoping that someone may have had an original colour chart that could have been scanned but nothing has surfaced. If you do have one please let me know.

Can people please email (click on the email button at the botton of this post) me a picture/s of an FB-EK that has the colours that are missing. The picture must be in focus. More than one picture would be good so I can try and get the best result.

Remember due to faded paint, picture quality, degree of sunlight/cloud, effects of the computer and computer screen etc the final sample colour chart will not be an exact representation of the colour. What it will be is a rough guide/general overview to what the colour looks like.

Looking forward to getting some pics to fill in the many blanks...

regards
Stewart

1960

Alpine Blue 9641

Apache Red 9889

Arctic Beige 9640

Banff Blue 9689

Belmont Green 9690

Biscay Green 7446

Buckskin 9691

Canyon Blue 9905

Carlsbad Black 0055

Castile Green 9893

Cathay Grey 9900

Coast Ivory 9858

Colleen Green 9692

Corana Grey 2327

Dartford Grey 9901

Desert Glow 2295

Fernando Yellow 9702

Glade Green 9693

Grecian White 9562

Honey Beige

Iris

Kodiak Brown

Lilac Grey 9891

Lucerne Blue 9695

Mandan Red 9860

Marine Blue 9897

Morning Grey 9699

Pyramid Coral 9700

Raphael Ivory 9698

Royal Glow 9935

Sandstone Beige 9638

Satellite Yellow 9890

Scallop Beige 9636

Seagull Grey 9892

Sherwood Green 9904

Twilight Turquoise 9931

Wedgewood Blue 0115

Welland Red 9856

Woodsman Green 9857

1961

Alamo Beige

Argosy Turquoise 4584

Barrier Coral 4585

Burgandy Red 0081

Cameo Beige 0235

Capricorn Coral 4582

Carlsbad Black 0055

Cataract Grey 0236

Cathay Grey 9900

Ceramic Brown 9961

Clinker Grey 9963

Coast Ivory 9858

Dusk Plum 0237

Egyptian Tan 4586

Garrison grey 0240

Goddess Gold 9849

Grenadier Red 0238

Montana Grey 4587

Opal Green 0242

Parisian Lilac 0243

Reef Green 9903

Reefshell Coral 9898

Seaforth Green 4588

Shalimar Blue 0244

Snowcrest White 0246

Strata Blue 0245

Tartan Turqoise 0247

Tuscany Yellow 0249

Valetta Green 0250

Welland Red 9856

Woodsman Green 9957

1962

Atherton Ivory 4675

Barrier Coral 4585

Brigade Red 0104

Bunyip Bronze 4676

Castile Green 9893

Cathay Green 9900

Coast Ivory 9858

Cottesloe Cream 4677

Dartford grey 9901

Euroa Gold 4645

Garrison Grey 0240

Glade Green 9693

Hayman Coral 4678

Honey Beige 9895

Hotham Blue 4644

Katherine Beige 4679

Loddon Green 4680

Madang Maroon 4620

Marine Blue 9897

Namatjira Red 4681

Nepean Grey 4682

Parisian Lilac 0243

Pittwater Green 4683

Pyramid Coral 9700

Riverina Blue 4684

Seagull Grey 9892

Sherwood Green 9904

Silverton Grey 4685

Snowcrest White 0246

Theatre Grey 4581

Ti-Tree Green 4686

Twilight Turquoise 9932

Walhalla Gold 4687

Wedgewood Blue 0115

Welland Red 9856

Wimmera Green 4643

Woodsman Green 9857

good work parisian62

bring on the ek colours

Hi Tim,

Great stuff! Weird that you can't see the email button? Can you see the profile button? If so click on that and you will be sent to my profile and an email button should be there...Anyone else having the same prob?

Dave - thanks for that. It will be interesting to see what colours we have difficulty in tracking down...

regards
Stewart

parisian62 wrote:Hi Tim,

Great stuff! Weird that you can't see the email button? Can you see the profile button? If so click on that and you will be sent to my profile and an email button should be there...Anyone else having the same prob?
regards
Stewart

hi stewart

I also dont see any e-mail button whether im logged in or out - still nothing, only a pm button and the www button which brings you back to this site

thats weird that you can see it and we cant

Hi Ray,

OK thanks for getting back. You mean to say you guys can't also see the button that says "Click here for FB EK NOS and NASCO accessories"?

Might be something to do with your profile setting? I'm no expert on phpBB so will look into it...

regards
Stewart

Hi Tim,

Have sent you an email so you get my email address.

Can people have a look at this thread http://www.fbekholden.com/forum/viewtop ... start=0and tell me what the colours are in:

2nd pic - two tone green FB sedan; white with purple flash FB wagon; what colour is Mark's yellow wagon; FB sedan in the bottom right corner purple and grey flash.

regards
Stewart


regards
Stewart

gday stewart

all good now mate, whatever you did it worked - i see the email button
sorry should of let you know straight away

thanks

no probs Ray. Thanks for sending through the twilight turquoise sample too.

Stewart

easy done stewart

keep up the good work

ray

Stewart wrote "Can people have a look at this thread http://www.fbekholden.com/forum/viewtop ... start=0and tell me what the colours are in:

2nd pic - two tone green FB sedan; white with purple flash FB wagon; what colour is Mark's yellow wagon; FB sedan in the bottom right corner purple and grey flash."
the 2 tone green looks the reverse of mine
Mine is Sherwood green with colleen green insert

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the pics. Colleen Green and Sherwood Green have now been added to the chart. So has Twighlight Turquoise - thanks Ray. Have just realised that some of the 1960 colours may be on EKs.... so if you have an EK with a 1960 colour thats missing I'd like to hear from you...

The pics below were taken by the official photographer organised by the Vic Club at Albury Nationals....

I can't do this by myself- who knows the colour names...SunnyTim, anyone...

BUMP...

Thanks to those who have supplied colours so far.

If there is a colour that is needed and that you have...I'd like to hear from you...

regards
Stewart

Great idea and progress Stewart,
just a thought to save you some work asking members what colour this car is for example.
Would it be possible to put an area in each members profile that they could post the colour of there car ( written statement ) and this would then match there avatar. Possibly saving some time ?
Then again, this is probably going to create more work for someone as well.
Maybe i'll shut up.

And I stated I wouldn't post again........... maybe I'm relenting?

Congratulations Stewart - you are going great with this - everyone is going to benefit, hopefully many will assist.

Third pic down on your Nov 15 post is I believe "Barney"
I am fairly sure they chose Twilight Turquoise for him.

I'll also email a pic of mine - it's Tartan Turquoise ala 1961 EK.
Your number is correct - I believe your chip may be a little too deep.

With respect to using colours of resprayed vehicles greatly depends on how accurately the paint was made up.

I remember in 1974 getting some mixed up by the people who originally sold the car and it was just a shade out - they stated then that the base material had been changed by Dulux - so I would expect anything resprayed unless colour matched exactly to some original cut sample would possibly be different.

Original colours which have been cut recently from locations which have been concealed (boot interior etc) will probably give the closest match.

For all intents and purposes, I feel what you are achieving is for a general overview? and I believe you are going great with it.
Keep going, hope others will help you.

frats,
Rosco

Hi Ian/Rosco,

Thanks for the support.

Ian - good idea but I'll leave it as is. By the way what colour is your Van?

Rosco - Yes email me the Tartan Turquoise.

Yes you are correct - all I'm trying to achieve is a general overview of colours - just to give people a general ball park of what the colour looks like.

I have noticed that some of the colours look completely different between the monitor I use at work and the monitor I use at home plus with all the other variations of sunlight, shade, resprays etc the colour chip may not look anything like the real colour

I have started to think that maybe it would have been better to use an image of an FB EK rather than a colour chip...anyways I'm going to press on and with the assistance of the cumulative knowledge on this Forum we just might get a colour chart for our FB EKs...

regards
Stewart