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Old 03-07-2014, 11:28 PM
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Default 1965 gto Reef Turquoise like or dislike color?

do you like this color? my wife loves this color.....your thoughts?

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Old 03-07-2014, 11:31 PM
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Love it. Makes me want to go to Key West, FL for the winter blues.

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Old 03-07-2014, 11:49 PM
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Not my favorite, but I also never see that color. It could grow on me! I couldnt reist asking...did the Foosenator ruin that car to the left of the GTO?

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Old 03-08-2014, 12:27 AM
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So are you saying you don't like it??

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Old 03-08-2014, 12:43 AM
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It is a very nice '60's' color but it's also a very hard color to get true to factory. The true factory reef turquoise rides a knife's edge between the blue and green mix. A trip to Napa and Martin Senour is usually disappointing - it stayed into the green flash too much. A head snapping color in it's correct balance IMO

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Parchment interior would make it BETTER. "Bill"!

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Old 03-08-2014, 12:56 AM
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Agreed Bill. Not sure if it's the picture quality or my computer but that strays way too much toward green

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Kind of on the fence here.

Sort of reminds me of the seafoam green that was so popular in the '60s for bathroom walls.

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It would have been the perfect car for the Ventures and their surf music. Just make sure it has the reverb option.

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I'm partial to Teal Turquoise and Parchment. I guess Reef makes a good second choice.

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Very period correct - love it, especially with wheelcovers and white walls.

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Don't like, but there are one or two other original greens in 65 that are great.

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My '66 painted factory correct Code K in 1995 along side of
my friends '65 painted factory code K in 1965.



IMHO it's a great color!

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Always liked it, first one I saw was owned by 60sstuff back in the 80's, awesome car awesome color!

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Always liked it, first one I saw was owned by 60sstuff back in the 80's, awesome car awesome color!
That's the Reef I had. Cool Color, reminds me of Lime Sherbert ice cream

Vintage photo of the Late, Great Phil Baumann doing a photo session in 1981.

This car also made numerious magazines and the Revell box art.
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Old 03-08-2014, 11:33 AM
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WOW this reef color looks different on every car !

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While walking the new car lot in the day . you could assume those color cars were not the ones with 3.90 or 4.33 gears.

but the girls did like those pretty gto's

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I prefer Teal Turquoise but here is a Reef Turquoise convertible I saw in the early 90's
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The first 65 pic color looks wrong, the other pics color looks great

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I think it just a poor pic, looks bleached out.

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