What color to paint the car?
I’ve been leaning towards the original “blu sera met.”, a metallic midnight blue. Personally I think the car suits slightly darker colors to lighter ones, although I must admit it looks really nice in silver. Dark grey, metallic burgundy, even the metallic bronze all compliment the car nicely.
The older 60’s blu sera is even deeper and richer, with finer metallic flakes than the 80’s vintage, as technology changed (improved?), flakes became larger. Here’s an example of a Maserati 5000GT painted in a mid-60’s blu sera:
Here are a few paint chips. Ferrari blu sera top, my original blanking panel left middle (not sure if you can see the difference between the color where the trident was and the rest, but it’s there), and the model year-appropriate Maserati blu sera on the bottom:
There’s still time to consider other colors before paint hits body.
What color would you think shows off the car best? Comments are open!
I like the Blue………..I’m watching all of this as I also own one….good luck with it
Thanks Tom. I’m partial to blue myself, which leads to the next question of *which* blue? There were so many! Sky blue metallic (“celeste chiaro met.”) looks great on a Mistral or Merak, but seems too light for such a big car, imho, so I was thinking of the darker, deeper blues available, ideally one originally offered by Maserati. I have to say I really like the look of the 500GT, almost blue-black with subtle metallic flakes. It seems darker than the model-year correct ble sera for the QP3, but that isn’t a bad thing as I see it. What about you?