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you got it,,actualy it was a lime color.

Colors on film are never what they seem, apparently.
IIRC the Nash Bridges Hemi Cuda was painted Sherwin Williams school bus orange because the Y3 Cuda Don Johnson saw in a mag was photographed at sunset and it was orange in the picture.
Now that being said, I've painted two cars (G)Y3 and they appear much more yellow than greenish.
And still, the green washes out as the sun goes down with more only red wavelengths left.
That's what happened to the car Johnson saw photographed at sunset.
I've got good color vision, so all I'm saying with that is I think I'm accurate in what I see.
"Your individual results may vary".
http://www.challengertalk.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=96217&d=1380936043

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071424/faq
 
Colors on film are never what they seem, apparently.
IIRC the Nash Bridges Hemi Cuda was painted Sherwin Williams school bus orange because the Y3 Cuda Don Johnson saw in a mag was photographed at sunset and it was orange in the picture.
Now that being said, I've painted two cars (G)Y3 and they appear much more yellow than greenish.
And still, the green washes out as the sun goes down with more only red wavelengths left.
That's what happened to the car Johnson saw photographed at sunset.
I've got good color vision, so all I'm saying with that is I think I'm accurate in what I see.
"Your individual results may vary".
http://www.challengertalk.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=96217&d=1380936043

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071424/faq
looks like citroen yella from the chart ,right?
 
Colors on film are never what they seem, apparently.
IIRC the Nash Bridges Hemi Cuda was painted Sherwin Williams school bus orange because the Y3 Cuda Don Johnson saw in a mag was photographed at sunset and it was orange in the picture.
Now that being said, I've painted two cars (G)Y3 and they appear much more yellow than greenish.
And still, the green washes out as the sun goes down with more only red wavelengths left.
That's what happened to the car Johnson saw photographed at sunset.
I've got good color vision, so all I'm saying with that is I think I'm accurate in what I see.
"Your individual results may vary".
http://www.challengertalk.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=96217&d=1380936043

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071424/faq
This is the actual car that Don Johnson saw in the book and wanted copied:
http://corvettes-musclecars.com/Mopar/71CudaConvertible/index.htm
It seems to be Y1, not Y3. http://www.lowtek.com/nash/cudas/
 
This is the actual car that Don Johnson saw in the book and wanted copied:
http://corvettes-musclecars.com/Mopar/71CudaConvertible/index.htm
It seems to be Y1, not Y3. http://www.lowtek.com/nash/cudas/
Y1.
That makes even more sense. I do recall reading the car was photographed at sun set and appeared more (orange) because of that.
(True or not IDK.)
My Y3 does. It looses the short wave lengths. Greenish fades out.
Where did I get Y3 on the Cuda?
IDK. Brain fart.
But that choice of "orange" for showing better on film sounds familiar too.

Know what? Now that I think about it maybe what I read was they had to paint it Sherwin Williams school bus orange to what Johnson wanted on film.
 
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