Tropic Torquoise

[markinnaples]

All of those Turquoise colors are beautiful, esp the 67, 68, and 69. Surprising more people didn't order those colors.

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by markinnaples

All of those Turquoise colors are beautiful, esp the 67, 68, and 69. Surprising more people didn't order those colors.

Turquoise was never a very popular color (during the middle to late 1960s). For the 1970 model year Misty Turquoise was available for the Chevelle and the Nova but not the Camaro. And that was the end of Turquoise. The 1971s didn't offer it.

[1970Bluel78]

I always thought Tropical Turquoise was a mid 60's Ford color

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by 1970Bluel78

I always thought Tropical Turquoise was a mid 60's Ford color

It was: 1965




But Chevy used it first in 1956:




http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcod...al%20Turquoise

[danachevroletfor1967]

I've always liked those turquoise colors from the 1960's and early 70's. I used to own a '69 coupe that was painted by a previous owner Hugger Orange but was originally Azure Turquoise; I would have much preferred the original color. Here is my '67 RS SS in Tahoe Turquoise.

[markinnaples]

That '67 is beautiful.

[DW31S]

I sure do miss my Azure Turquouse '69 Camaro. Had it while I was a junior in high school. Jonesy, the picture of your car and the little avatar thumbnail I'm guessing are the same car, but the lighting makes them appear different shades. Gorgeous, by the way.

[wheelhop]

My azure turquoise SS postsedan as purchased.

[Jonesy]

Originally Posted by DW31S

I sure do miss my Azure Turquoise '69 Camaro. Had it while I was a junior in high school. Jonesy, the picture of your car and the little avatar thumbnail I'm guessing are the same car, but the lighting makes them appear different shades. Gorgeous, by the way.

Pics of my car are on a cloudy day. The color does look different. When it used to be my daily driver, I would park it on the street under the street lights and it looked different then too. The pic of the thumbnail is under fluorescent lighting.
Maybe it has to do with the metallic in the paint.

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by Jonesy

Pics of my car are on a cloudy day. The color does look different. When it used to be my daily driver, I would park it on the street under the street lights and it looked different then too. The pic of the thumbnail is under fluorescent lighting.
Maybe it has to do with the metallic in the paint.

Fluorescent lights and mercury lights make many colors look much lighter then they do in sunlight, shade, cloudy or under incandescent lights

Here is a perfect example - a photo taken by mrays at a Mecum auction. Compare it to a photo taken in sunlight:







It has to do with what the color temperature (on the Kelvin Scale) of what white is based on a black body curve (see photo below). Lights that are "super white" like the mercury lights above have a white color temperature in the 11,000 K range (called COOL) while lights that are lower on the BBC - nearer the red zone are called WARM and will have a white color temperature of around 5400K. Ever see the whitening liquid you put in a washing machine when you do your whites - it's blue.

If you have a really good camera and know what you are doing, you can adjust the color temperature to compensate for different lighting situations. BTW - Fluorescent lights have a tendency to add a green tint to a photo.