recommend me a red!

[shahtz]

hi guys

looking forward to putting my datsun a10 violet 160j sss into the bodyshop next month!

i am planning on going for a metallic paint this time as the base red on this car has turned pink on certain panels so want toi modernise with colour and lacquer

i want to stick to red and was wondering if there was any stock colours that anyone could recommend!

heres pics of my car (about three years old pics)













i am also going to desticker it!

[triumphdriver]

My first Triumph was Porsche Guards Red, but Triumph or Rover Signal Red is a nice bright one too.

[ra28celica]

imola red which came on the bmw m3 gt2 e36 and few other bmw's

[waveman1500]

Porsche Guards Red is nice, I believe that my Bug is done in it. Solid colour though. I don't really know of any good red metallics, at least on factory cars. Red seems to work best as a solid colour in my opinion, or Candy if you've got the money of course!

In terms of Nissan colours, Glaze Red from the U12 Bluebird/Pintara (in Australia at least) is nice. 1989-1992ish if that helps.

[kapri]

Ford Sunset red is pretty pure. Just to say ...lovely motor, used to own a W plate 160J SSS, had it for almost 4 years , one both my wife and myself still miss.

[tomti]

Imola red is lovely

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if you going for an off the shelf metalic red then rover night fire red is a good choice

[Fiat Daft]

pasodoble red?

[rodharris83]

VW Mars Red??

[ettorebugatti]

Peugeot Lucifer red is also very nice.

[1900sr]

Ford Jupiter Red Metallic

[croaky]

Yeah another vote here for peugeot lucifer red.

Looks ace when it's clean!

[akku]

is Lucifer Red another name for Diablo Red or is that a different (Peugeot) colour?

My favourites for solid are: Porsche Guards Red, Ford Signal Red, Rover Radiant Red.
My favourite for metallic/mica: Rover Nightfire Red, Peugeot Diablo Red, Chrysler Inferno Red

You could always just get your original paint colour matched in a modern material paint, that always looks brighter than original paint.

[DavidB]

I think if it's too dark it doesn't look right. Guards Red is the best I think.

[ettorebugatti]

Both (lucifer and diablo) seem to have the same paint number EKQ.

But Lucifer is also found as M0KQ and Diablo as M4KQ.

[ettorebugatti]

Volvo 322 Flame red isn't too bad either

[akku]

cheers for clearing that up!

[scotty82]

VW sunset red

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or you could go the whole hog and do a proper candy red

[shahtz]

interesting................. like the imola red so far

more please!