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Anthony, I'm sure what I'm about to say, you're already well aware of. Most of these cars have been repainted at one time. However there are several places very few owners/painters don't remove. I'm restoring a '58 Spider for a client and there was a pristine (now primered over) area under the lip of the top of the dash once the dash 'header' has been removed. It looked like the day it was painted. Assuming your Spider was originally Celeste blue, I can't help but believe yours would be the same - unless some restorer long ago was very energetic and removed it when painting.
All should be aware that 'equivalent colors' on modern paints are, in my opinion, only in the general ball park of the original color. Awhile back I was matching a client's '69 Wheat colored Spider. I'd borrowed the paint shops swatches and the Alfa Wheat on the swatch matched areas on the '69 exactly. So told the paint matcher/mixer guy to match the swatch. When I picked up the paint he showed me his first try which was mixed using DuPont's formula for Wheat. It looked like an off white. Paint guy knew it of course and made it match the swatch and not just follow the suggested formula for the color.
The '58 Celeste blue is actually pretty intense...for a light blue.
Biba
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