Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > 998 / 996 / 916 / 748 > ducati red

[Chris996]

A car sprayer friend of mine is going to spray my fuel tank and I was wondering if anyone had any luck with matching a red car colour with the ducati red. He's bringing his swatches over tomorrow and I thought it would save time if we had a starting point in mind.

Thanks
Chris

[rockhopper]

No chance i would have thought. Can't you do it by the PGP numbers (or whatever they are)?

[Bionicle]

PAINT MANUFACTURER – PPG COLOR / PAINT CODE PPG / Metallic Black / 291.500 PPG / Ducati Red / 473.101 PPG / Ducati Yellow / 473.201 PPG / Metallic Grey / 291.601 PPG / Ducati Metallic Blue / 291.800 PPG / Dark (Senna) Gray/ PPG 0017 PPG / Gray Steel / 223.647 PPG / Titanium / 291.600

[rockhopper]

Thats the ones!

[Shazaam!]

Yo might be interested to know that I found that a paint touch-up using the Ferrari shade of red, Rosso Chiaro, is an exact match on a 916. PPG currently supplies the paint for all Ferrari's production cars.

[PDL]

Originally posted by Shazaam!
Yo might be interested to know that I found that a paint touch-up using the Ferrari shade of red, Rosso Chiaro, is an exact match on a 916. PPG currently supplies the paint for all Ferrari's production cars.

Now that makes sense, because...

...at the turn of the last centuary when motor racing became a national event, the major players decided that each nation should have a destinctive colour. Britain chose GREEN - hence British Racing Green, the French chose BLUE, the Germans chose SILVER and guess what the Italians chose?

Yes RED, it is their national colour for racing so no suprise that Ducati Red and Ferrari Red is the same.

That is why Ducati have Yellow bikes as RED is Italian racing colours but Yellow is Ducati.

[Edited on 1-7-2005 by Desmo748]

[antonye]

Yellow is USA - Daytona Yellow.

[Mr_S]

Didn't Yellow 748 SPS bikes start appearing around the time of the TPG takeover......

[antonye]

1996 was when TPG joined - did they make a 748 that early?

[PDL]

Bip 1995
SP 1996
SPS 1998
S 1997

I think.