Ok. This is going to be interesting to explain but I well try to do so.

My 240Z is a original car that my moms husbands dad purchased originally. So I can point to everyone that has owned it.

Now I am trying to restore the car including paint. I have the interior gutted and all the original ORANGE paint is there in great shape and every part in the cab has it!

Everyone who has seen it including some new friends with Z cars have said ORANGE is great!

How ever....

Today when I was looking under the hood getting ready to pull the engine and everything elts under there, I decided to look at the color tag....

COLOR NO. 110

!?!?!?!?!?!

Red??? Its orange!

After looking further, I did find one area under the hood, by the grill below the hood hing that was hard to find that had a very lite tent of red.

Could it been the order was for Red but during the painting was switched to Orange???

Has anyone heard of this before???

I mean there is NOTHING anywhere including in the tool boxes that gave any hint of red!

Just for reference, the interior is WHITE including the head liner, seats,sides, doors, tranny tunnel.

I am all ears on this one!

Polecat

I think you have stumbled into a naming convention. I am not an expert, Arne may be able to chime in, but there is one particular color of Datsun orange that is pretty darn red looking. Or vise versa...you get what I mean.

110 is almost exactly between a true Red and a true Orange. If you park a 110 Red beside a 905 Red - the 110 will look orange. If you park a 110 Red beside a 918 Orange car the 110 will look Red.

It's a very neat color with the white interior.

See: http://zhome.com/History/ZColorGallary/index.html

FWIW,

Carl B.

GREAT color combination! When I had to declare "color" on my registration, I had them go outside and decide for themselves. One car tag says red, the other says orange.

The pics are of the twins as they were as of last week. The pic of the car with the interior really is the same color, it is outside in natural light and really doesn't look that way to the eye.

I had a 918 Orange car and I now have a 905 Red car and most people think they are the same.

I have one (1977 Code 110) and have this debate/ discussion/argument often. I agree completely with Carl, it depends on who's opinion and where you park it, time of day, etc.

From Wiki definition of the color persimmon: "Persimmon is a color that closely resembles the tint of a very ripe persimmon fruit. Persimmon can also be described as a medium orange-red. It is very similar to the tints of coral red and vermilion."

Kris

Thanks for all the info! The more I look into this color, the more I like it!

Polecat