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RunWithScissors, if you’re interested, I can tell you how I settled on the colour and paint code for my car.

From all of the pictures I had seen of FIA Cobras, I wanted mine to be Viking Blue. Finding (and relying on) a paint code for the original Viking Blue was risky business, so I contacted Trevor Legate for advice. I have most of his books, so he directed me to a particular page in one of his book that was the closest match to his ‘expert’ (in my opinion) perception of what Viking Blue would be. I then started looking for late (-ish) cars on the road that closely matched that colour so that I could go to a car dealer and obtain the colour.

What actually transpired was that a friend had a Ferrari 308 GTS that matched the colour I was chasing. I was able to view his car inside his garage with the fluoro lights on, then outside in full sunlight, and also outside in the shade .... and it was as close to the colour I was chasing as I could have hoped for (thanks M**** ).

The end result is .... no surprises in how it turned out, and I’m completely happy with the colour.

Cheers,
Glen