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[AdamtheWayne]

Finally decided to do this.

There's been a lot of discussion over the years about OLD Petty blue vs. NEW Petty blue. There is no "new" Petty blue.

As related to me by Kyle Petty himself, When Richard made that famous first batch, it was with white, and the dark appliance blue they used for some chassis components as well as the drop shadows. Richard immediately worked on a formula so the paint could become their trademark.

Kyle went on to ay the color is VERY susceptible to light changes. Natural light, cloudy days, indoor lights like incandescent vs. fluorescent. Other changes happened with different cameras, different shutter speeds and films.

So I present to you here, Several photos of the 1973 Dodge. Please note the locations of the cars, the background and lighting.












As you can see, they are all the same car from 1973. You can also see the major differences between them color wise.

If you ever buy some Basin street blue for your build, watch the guy mix it for a huge surprise! In the tinting process the paint has the dark blue and base white, along with green, yellow and believe it or not... black! It's an interesting process.

Anyway, I hope this puts to rest the argument over the ever changing... Petty blue.
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[WR]

Richard said on Dale Jr's pod cast the colors and I remember one of them was refrigerator white, so there is a formula to it.

[AdamtheWayne]

[Firefly]

You will get a lot of variation from '70s photo reproductions, and aged photo prints from negative film and mediocre-quality offset printed reproductions are particularly inaccurate, not just for the blue but for rendering the flo red. Here's a not-bad recent scan from Petersen's archive. You acn see the flo-red's a bit splotchy-orange in the lower part, where the scanner was a bit confused. Looks like overcast sky in Feb '73.


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[AdamtheWayne]

Film of that era could not pick up fluorescent paints, making it look like a standard color.
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