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You are easy to spot coming down the highway, also. I can always tell that my GF is behind me, even a mile or so, when she is driving the Ortario Orange '72. I just look for the little orange spot in the rear view mirror.
With all the silver, black, white and other wise drab car colors out there, a bright color like the Sunfire stands out, as it should, on a Corvette..
Doug
Originally Posted by DansYellow66
I had my car out today on a Fall sunny day and the paint was really glowing in the sunlight - sunfire was a very appropriate name selected for it. Took a few pictures but I have to say they don't really capture the full effect.
Sunfire, Goldwood, whatever... until you own a yellow Corvette you can't quite appreciate the enigmatic quality of a color that virtually changes minute by minute. Nothing quite like it.
There is definitely something about yellow and the way it refracts light. It's difficult to photograph and will change color and sheen as the light changes.
That's a really good example - better than my pictures. I think my camera was having an off-day. These photos show how the color looks real soft and sort of pale in some light while in other light it looks brighter.
Wasn't the Corvette yellow in 65 called Sunflower? One of my first projects with my 65 was to repaint it and while it was originally a silver, that's not a color I liked so I was considering another 65 color. I like yellows in general but felt the 65 yellow was too pale and around this time the 78 vettes came out and the yellow was really bright so I chose that.. I can no longer remember what it was called but Chrome Yellow comes to mind.
Wasn't the Corvette yellow in 65 called Sunflower?
I like yellows in general but felt the 65 yellow was too pale and around this time the 78 vettes came out and the yellow was really bright so I chose that.. I can no longer remember what it was called but Chrome Yellow comes to mind.
The '65 was Goldwood Yellow and it is a little pale (or mine is faded). The only C3 color I could find a paint chip for, in the era you said, was Corvette Bright Yellow.
The '65 was Goldwood Yellow and it is a little pale (or mine is faded). The only C3 color I could find a paint chip for, in the era you said, was Corvette Bright Yellow.
Thanks, and Corvette Bright seems right, I do remember calling it Bright *** Yellow!
Bought my '65 Goldwood Yellow in 1988; discovered this wasp nest in 2006; decided to leave it alone -- still there today. Couldn't see it unless the wiper grille removed.
Big fan of Sunfire yellow but no two ever seem to look alike. Was at a show once and there were six cars- all different. Hard to know whats right. Some seemed a little bit to dark almost towards a greenish tint
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