While Carl's thread is going to be more useful than mine, it seems like I should have one.
I keep crashing mine. Mostly not my fault, though this one was:
I went 2 off, high centered on the kerb, got a little sideways and the car behind me took off the nose. The contact was minor, but fiberglass isn't exactly forgiving.
The high centering ended up doing a ton of damage. My rear brake line was mis-routed because I'd last swapped the engine in the paddock the night before the last race, and had already bled the brakes my the time I realized I'd routed the line on the wrong side of the frame. The engine was a loaner, so I figured I'd fix it when I pulled the engine after this race weekend to return it. I also, apparently, cracked the case, judging from the fact that all the oil dripped out after I got it back to the paddock.
Anyway, today I went to go buy some paint because the next race is next weekend.
As far as I can tell, there are two places to buy automotive paint in Colorado Springs: Sherwin Williams or English Color. I went to English Color even though they spelled their name wrong.
The fellow who painted my car used Valspar TB550 Urethane, and I have all the magic numbers needed to recreate the appropriate colors, but no one in town sells Valspar TB550. The English Color in Denver sells it, but that's a 2.5 hour drive on each way, they’re not open on weekends and I’ve got work to do during the week. So I figured I’d just grab the tail cover of my car and head to the English Color in the Springs which sells PPG, and PPG Concept is a favorite single stage of the Internet.
The ladies at English Color put their magic scanner on my tail cover and mixed up a small amount of both the blue and the yellow. It’s hard to tell from wet paint, but it looked mostly right. The yellow seemed maybe a little dark and the blue seemed maybe a little light. “Do you want to take it outside and compare under the sunlight?” they asked. “Nope.”
“What kind of paint do you want?”
“Whatever single stage urethane you have.”
“Well, what do you want?”
“Concept.”
“We don’t have that.”
“Right. So what do you have?”
“Omni.”
“That’s what I want, then.”
They remarked that my Blue matched with a color called “Volvo White” on their computer. Maybe “white” means blue in Swedish. But when I got home, I was shocked to notice the name of my yellow:
Alberta Government Telephone?!? A little Googling turned up the answer:
Apparently, the yellow on my Vee is a match for the repair fleet trucks that Alberta Government Telephone used some long time ago. When the car was being painted last time, Brian asked what shade of yellow I wanted, I told him to make it the color of another Vee in the club. “That’s midlife crisis yellow.” “Perfect.” Only, the shade he used is way lighter than midlife crisis yellow. Now I know that it’s Alberta Government Telephone Yellow. This makes me happy.
I have no explanation for Volvo White.
