Porsche Azure Blue?

[JohnK]

As I creep closer and closer to the body/paint phase of the project I'm really struggling to nail down a paint color. The color that I'm infatuated with at the moment (it could change tomorrow) is a vintage non-metallic blue from early 50's Porsche 356's called Azure Blue. Here are a couple of photos:

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=153599&d=1632241379

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=153598&d=1632241326

I really like that it has that old-school vibe to it. The overall layout I have in mind would be this color with meatballs and numbers on the doors, hood and trunk, similar to the layout on this car:

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=153597&d=1632241326

I've searched all over the internet and have seen every shade of blue imaginable on cobras, but not this color. Has anyone here seen a cobra with this color - in particular asking the Jeffs, as you guys are probably responsible for the paint jobs on the majority of cobras out there. :D

[David Hodgkins]

That is an extremely cool color! LOVE IT!. I'm a fan of older colors, despite my avatar. My own MKIII is Guardsman Blue. I'm also a huge fan of non-metallic British Racing Green, but this is just as nice.

:)

[Jeff Kleiner]

I like the more vintage looking non-metallics for a change of pace, and that's a good one! That's not one I've done---I know my buddy Miller is doing one in a Porsche blue right now but I don't know if it's this. Maybe he'll chime in (if he does I give no better than 50/50 odds that his comments will be useful :p)

Jeff

[DSR-3]

I just happened across this car listing. I like your color choice too. I had a BMW 2002 re-painted "the same" color many years ago...
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/d/novato-1965-shelby-cobra-sc-ac/7374878663.html
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[JohnK]

Awesome! That's so helpful. Thank you. That's actually not too far from me either.

[David Hodgkins]

I just happened across this car listing. I like your color choice too. I had a BMW 2002 re-painted "the same" color many years ago...
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/d/novato-1965-shelby-cobra-sc-ac/7374878663.html
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I hope that's not the same color. Seems a bit light to me.
:)

[rich grsc]

I agree, doesn't look the same to me. Too 'shiny'

[toadster]

would look AWESOME with the bronze sunburst wheels :)

[BEAR-AvHistory]

Nice choice. Stainless steel will set it off really well.

[KDubU]

I saw it on an ERA and it was beautiful IMHO. I’m a big fan of non-metallics as well. I may have a pic somewhere of the ERA as I thought it could be a future build colour choice.

[NC Cobra]

Wow,that is a unique car in the photo. Don’t think I have ever seen a Cobra with Centerline Wheels. The FIA body and old style blue really work well together.

[KDubU]

Similar colour but think this is a CSX.

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[KDubU]

Similar colour but think this is a CSX.

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[Jessew]

The blue cobra is CSX2433 I believe, restored by Bruce Canepa. It’s painted a custom color coincidentally called “Canepa Blue” I reached out to them about it because that’s what color I want. I was told that Ford Sheridan Blue is very close.

[JohnK]

Canepa blue is beautiful. Here's another cobra they did in the same color:

https://canepa.com/1965-shelby-cobra/

[egchewy79]

Canepa blue is beautiful. Here's another cobra they did in the same color:

https://canepa.com/1965-shelby-cobra/

holy smokes! that's some bespoke $h!t...
beautiful work by those guys.

[J R Jones]

The blue cobra is CSX2433 I believe, restored by Bruce Canepa. It’s painted a custom color coincidentally called “Canepa Blue” I reached out to them about it because that’s what color I want. I was told that Ford Sheridan Blue is very close.

Interesting reference. That Cobra was owned by a buddy in the late sixties, in Cedarburg WI. It had been raced previously and Dave turned it back into a street car. Financial issues forced a sale to Dan Schott in Oshkosh who built it back into a race car. It was a similar blue back then. In 1971 I bought a Shelby GT350R and took it to my first SCCA driver's school in Brainerd MN. Dan was there in his Cobra and Rollie Stephenson brought CSX2350 which was a silver street conversion back then. My developed race engine dominated when we finally got to our mini-race. Dan's car raced for a couple of years, then sold. I never saw Rollie's car at a SCCA race. The only other Cobra I raced against was a couple of years later at Blackhawk Farms when Gordie Meffert's CSX 2156 (former Lemans racer) showed up in white with Castrol stripes and a new owner. He was over his head and not competitive.
My buddy Dave went on to build and race a Sunbeam Tiger. In about 1974 Dave's engine was blown and my Shelby was crashed. He loaned me the Tiger to develop with my engine. It worked with a wins at Elkhart and lap record at Blackhawk Farms.
jim

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[JohnK]

I feel like I have a certain idea in mind, but can't quite put my finger on it yet. I'm getting closer and closer though. Here's another color idea. This is an Eagle E-type lightweight GT. (https://www.eaglegb.com/186/jaguar-e-type-special-editions/eagle-lightweight-gt) I love that the roundels are just a slightly lighter shade of the same body color.

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=153695&d=1632497706

[J R Jones]

John, I thought I had deleted this photo, Searched everywhere and found it. This is from about two years ago at a local Cars & Coffee. The Jag was a beautiful restoration, with parchment gray leather interior.
I asked if this is a Jaguar color, and no, he said it was a period Triumph color (early sixties) Very elegant.
Personally I am considering a dove gray for my Dino replica, I like understatement.
jim

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[JohnK]

Thanks Jim! That is a beautiful color. Definitely along the lines of what I'm thinking. There's another Porsche 356 color from the early 50's called Aquamarine Blue that's pretty similar. That family of nonmetallic blue/aqua colors is where I'm leaning.

[Jessew]

Interesting reference. That Cobra was owned by a buddy in the late sixties, in Cedarburg WI. It had been raced previously and Dave turned it back into a street car. Financial issues forced a sale to Dan Schott in Oshkosh who built it back into a race car. It was a similar blue back then. In 1971 I bought a Shelby GT350R and took it to my first SCCA driver's school in Brainerd MN. Dan was there in his Cobra and Rollie Stephenson brought CSX2350 which was a silver street conversion back then. My developed race engine dominated when we finally got to our mini-race. Dan's car raced for a couple of years, then sold. I never saw Rollie's car at a SCCA race. The only other Cobra I raced against was a couple of years later at Blackhawk Farms when Gordie Meffert's CSX 2156 (former Lemans racer) showed up in white with Castrol stripes and a new owner. He was over his head and not competitive.
My buddy Dave went on to build and race a Sunbeam Tiger. In about 1974 Dave's engine was blown and my Shelby was crashed. He loaned me the Tiger to develop with my engine. It worked with a wins at Elkhart and lap record at Blackhawk Farms.
jim

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That’s some cool history.

[j.miller]

I like the more vintage looking non-metallics for a change of pace, and that's a good one! That's not one I've done---I know my buddy Miller is doing one in a Porsche blue right now but I don't know if it's this. Maybe he'll chime in (if he does I give no better than 50/50 odds that his comments will be useful :p)

Jeff



I have looked at all of the options and I'm going with the sponge..... Boy! O'l Kleiner nailed that one ...da Bat