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02-23-2012, 09:48 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Newport Beach,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham, 427 SOHC
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Ford color history buffs.....help
I am trying to match the red, white and blue that ford used on some race cars. I have also seen a few cobras with the red, white and blue stripe. I know the white is whimbleton, but what is the red (dark, almost maroon) and the blue (kind of navy)?
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02-23-2012, 10:57 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Tempe,AZ-High Point,NC,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham #684, 482FE, Mike Mccluskey build
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Vintage Burgandy poly I think for red, for blue im not sure, I have a Ford 1960 paint code book but i cant tell the blue, it is so faded.
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02-24-2012, 09:01 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: No city...only 118 residents in Manter,
KS
Cobra Make, Engine: Cobra Auto Works body, Ron Godell Racecars chassis, 1989 Mustang GT 5.0 HO (converted to carb), W/C T-5, 3.73's in a Ford 9" Traction-Loc.
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Ford used a red with a bit of orange in it....Rangoon Red. My A J Foyt paitshop found it in their books as a paint for early to mid 1960 Mercurys, but the touchup paint I bought matches my replica's "Rangoon Red" perfectly.
It would not be the "almost maroon" you're looking for, though....but if you want a very bright red, you might like that.
Wasn't the blue "Guardsman Blue" and the white "Wimbledon White"?
Cheers!
Dugly 
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02-24-2012, 10:23 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Mesa,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Contemporary Classic, 428 FE CCX 3069
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Rangoon Red was a stock Ford color from 1957 (the famous Fairlane 500) until 1968. In 1958 they added another red called "candyapple red". The white, I believe was Avalanche White. It was VERY white. I don't remember what the blue was called.
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02-24-2012, 10:46 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Des Moines,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Sold my beloved Shelby CSX 4068, Gessford 427 Ford
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Wimbledon White is kind of creamy, not pure white. The Cobras didn't use it for their stripes. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the white stripes were Arctic White, a (ahem) Chevy truck color from '65 or so?
Vintage Burgundy is a maroon. I had a Mustang convertible painted that color. Beautiful color, but I wouldn't call it red.
You should be able to Google Guardsman Blue and get a bunch of hits.
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02-24-2012, 10:58 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Newport Beach,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham, 427 SOHC
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Thanks for info guys!
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