Giulia Spider 1962. Norwegian re-restoration.

[ESjaavik]

Those pictures are fine Gordon. It seems the underpan just clears the swaybar. Which is also how I believed it to be.

And thanks Pat! I got the picture and it's fine. The best I have so far.

Today I went hunting for the Sky Blue color that the car was supposed to have from the factory. Armed with a newly calibrated Minolta CR-200b Chroma Meter I found readings to be very consistent on those places where blue could be found. The meter says it is 22.78 / - 0.23 / -5.2 on the Lab scale (D65). 22.78 means it's very dark. -0.23 means it's neither green nor magenta. -5.2 means it's slightly blue, not yellow. The most interesting here is that it's not very blue, rather a dark grey with a hint of blue.

You can check it out here: The Coloring Pages: Java applet for L*a*b* graphic display and conversions. But of course since our screens are not calibrated it will just give a hint. Actually on the car it looks a very dark blue.

Armed with these numbers I expect the color cooks to brew something that should look Sky Blue to anyone with good memory of old Alfa colors. ;-)

Another interesting observation is that the readings taken from under the right door hinge and behind the side cover behind the door (protected from the sun) were the same as the one found after carefully removing the red color and grey filler from around the instrument cluster. The differences being no more that between several reading in the same place. (Numbers above are the mean values of many readings). I take it as proof that the color found is fairly correct. All places were thoroughly cleaned with Autoglym cleaner before measuring.

I hope this ranting is of interest to some.

[AlfistiSA]

Hello Einar

The colour you are looking for is Celeste AR 301, also known as Sky Blue, both of our '60 Spiders were originally this colour.

I've got lots of pictures of 'Baby Blue" Giulietta's, the colour is quite deceptive as it changes from dark to light depending on the sunlight and what camera is used.

I've sent you pictures via email

Ciao
Greig

[ESjaavik]

Finally I call it winter and start working on the car again.

One of the nose pieces I made was welded in yesterday and today I bumped the weld seam straight. It came out good, actually better than the pictures suggests. But that is as usual since it's not filed down. That will not be possible since there are fairly deep scratches from previous work. No problem though, as long as the bondo can be kept in its box where it belongs.

The piece over the headlight is just held on by ViseGrips since there are a couple of thigs to take care of. When folding down the edge I had only the non-original headlight rim as a pattern. It may not have the correct outer diameter. But I have one original here, just have to remember to bring it to the workshop and it will be easy to do any correction. Also there is a bit too much curve in it about where it meets the original panel. This is not difficult to correct either, but a bit time consuming (and noisy).