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DarylH



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:12 pm    Post subject: Cale's Valvoline Buick Reply with quote

I have the new Salvino release of the Valvoline Buick and I'm a bit confused. Is the back end black or blue? Midnight blue maybe. It seems to look a little different in each pic I've found.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks it's dark dark blue too. Laughing

Compared to the 16, it looks blue. It's so dark that it looks almost black, I'm planning on using Tamiya TS55 Dark Blue for my build in the future.




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PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeaa I'm also leaning toward TS55
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Every other thread about this says the back end is black.

And the color guide and decal placement sheet that Powerslide produced says black.

So i would go with black.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

18degrees wrote:
Every other thread about this says the back end is black.

And the color guide and decal placement sheet that Powerslide produced says black.

So i would go with black.

Being a little color blind I was not going to say......
BUT.....Valvoline's colors are red, white, blue and black.....look at the logo. So makes sense.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 6:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1981 Darlington. Compared to the Diehard contingency on the fender, the panel under the headlight looks extremely dark blue. This is why I've always wondered/questioned if this car was really black.

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/cale-yarborough-pits-his-mc-andersonowned-valvoline-buick-during-the-picture-id106890167?s=2048x2048
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joe Oteri wrote:
1981 Darlington. Compared to the Diehard contingency on the fender, the panel under the headlight looks extremely dark blue. This is why I've always wondered/questioned if this car was really black.

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/cale-yarborough-pits-his-mc-andersonowned-valvoline-buick-during-the-picture-id106890167?s=2048x2048


I notice the Valvoline on the pit crew shirts is surrounded with black and matches the portion of the car in question to me.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everyone has different eyes for color, but that headlight panel matches the blue Busch mountains better than that black Valvoline block to me.

I blame this on working in a bodyshop. Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The back of the # 27 Valvoline Car was indeed Black in 1981 & 1982. It changed to Blue when the sponsorship moved the Wood Brothers # 21 in 1983.
The front bumper filler piece is in its' molded ( i.e. -- unpainted ) black color. Cale Yarborough would continue representing Valvoline in 1983 with an associate sponsorship; this involved the rear trunk & taillight panel -- but not the back bumper -- being painted black with the " Smiling " Valvoline name in white.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I pulled out my ERTL 1/64 Valvoline Buick...it was black on it.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 9:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The reasoning for the black might be related to the color of the triangle at the bottom of the V in the logo. There was a Valvoline RACING Oil logo that had the triangle in black rather than dark blue, which was in the mass-market logo. Valvoline may have specified the later sponsored cars to use the dark blue, to match the mass-market logo colors - red, blue, dark blue.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a great point about the logo, Bill.

I just still can't wrap my head around the back half of this car being black though, even if it's true. Confused Laughing
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