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RAII 4-speed 03-07-2014 11:28 PM

1965 gto Reef Turquoise like or dislike color?
 
do you like this color? my wife loves this color.....your thoughts?
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps1a22d16f.jpg

Option 382 03-07-2014 11:31 PM

Love it. Makes me want to go to Key West, FL for the winter blues.

27jalopy 03-07-2014 11:49 PM

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?

fng69 03-08-2014 12:27 AM

So are you saying you don't like it??

james66GTO 03-08-2014 12:43 AM

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

bill ryder 03-08-2014 12:43 AM

Parchment interior would make it BETTER. "Bill"!

james66GTO 03-08-2014 12:56 AM

Agreed Bill. Not sure if it's the picture quality or my computer but that strays way too much toward green

b-man 03-08-2014 01:55 AM

Kind of on the fence here.

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

Option 382 03-08-2014 02:18 AM

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

Chris65LeMans 03-08-2014 03:00 AM

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

Scarebird 03-08-2014 03:16 AM

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

elefantrider 03-08-2014 04:46 AM

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

Jeff Hamlin 03-08-2014 07:28 AM

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

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/p...DPOCISHOWa.jpg

IMHO it's a great color!
http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/p...pCOFFE2013.jpg

Sloan66 03-08-2014 07:54 AM

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

60sstuff 03-08-2014 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Sloan66 (Post 5151543)
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.

RAII 4-speed 03-08-2014 11:33 AM

WOW this reef color looks different on every car !

dld 03-08-2014 11:39 AM

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 :cool:

Big Banger 03-08-2014 01:04 PM

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I prefer Teal Turquoise but here is a Reef Turquoise convertible I saw in the early 90's

elefantrider 03-08-2014 02:16 PM

The first 65 pic color looks wrong, the other pics color looks great

Jeff Hamlin 03-08-2014 02:41 PM

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


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