Vintage Ferrari Paint Colors

Identifying Vintage Ferrari paint colors has proven illusive. This seems to be a common source of frustration for folks trying to identify a color they see on a particularly nice car, in order to have a paint shop replicate it properly. With your help, perhaps we can sort this out. Lets start with the paint, and if there is interest, we can do the leather colors next.

I've listed the Factory colors identified by Keith Bluemel in his book "Original Ferrari V12 1965-73" plus a couple more, and added the consensus on the English names. Send in your pictures!

At the bottom of this page there is a key to italian color names. Also, Ian Levy noted that apparently a lot of the colours were named after the great European racehorses of the day, eg Le Sancy, Hyperion, Nijinsky, Nashrullah, Sir Ivor, Rubino, Nearco, Molvedo, Seabird, etc. It make makes sense Ferrari would do this, and certainly accounts for the obscurity of some of the names.