75 280 Paint Code? Coolest 4-point Roll Bar?

[Luxmantom]

Hi everyone,i've had my 280 for 3 years now,and is finally getting close to being finished.I have a question,mine is factory Orange(not Red Code #110).The code tag is long gone,and last owner had the car painted the same color as factory,and I do have the paint can,but newer paint# doesn't help.I'm having my Roll Bar Powder Coated,and would like the org. paint code#.Here's some picture's of org.paint on the inside,so we know this is factory color.Any idea's?Also here's picture's of my 4-point Roll-Bar a good friend built,he kinda got out-of-hand,from a simple 4-point,but it turned into a work of art,IMPO.Thank's for any help,Tom.

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http://www.zhome.com/History/ZColorGallary/

[EuroDat]

Thats interesting. I thought the 280Z only had one red colour (110). The 240Z had 110 and 905.

The PO painted mine 280Z red. Don't know what code it is, but its neither 110 or 905.

[Patcon]

Don't know on the color but I like the wheels and love the bullet mirrors. I am gonna use the same mirrors...

[cgsheen1]

That looks way too red to be the stock Datsun #110 "Persimmon Red" to me.  The stock 110 single-stage paint starts out kind of a deep red-orange and fades to a almost more orange-than-red over the years.  The paint oversprayed on the interior is definitely 110.  The exterior doesn't look 110 to me - but that may be your camera - or my old eyeballs...

 

(This showed up when we painted Patrick's Late 260Z.  He wanted Orange "like his car was" - but when I showed him the original mostly unaltered paint under one of the side markers - which was WAY too red for him - he decided against the stock 110 color and we used a GM Orange for his new paint.  Lucas has a 280Z with the original, never been repainted, Datsun #110 that he drives into the shop every day.)

[Luxmantom]

This is what I found out today,after talking  with the gentleman I brought the car from(he brought it from org.owner in Az.)He took one of the inside panel's off,and the paint co. took a picture(I guess the paint co's have a special camera for that sort of thing) of the org. paint there.They matched it from the org.color.So the outside is as close as you can get to the org. inside color.After taking my can of what I have left from the paint job(done in 2008)to my paint guy,to match the roll bar,he looked up in the old catalog's,and found a color code #193 Orange for 1975 Datsun car's.Anybody know that paint code?I have seen a 75 280 in code#110,and mine is not that color.Weird huh?

[Captain Obvious]

Out of curiosity, who did the roll bar? Was it a professional shop?

[HaZmatt]

Looking good Tom!

[Luxmantom]

Thank's Matt,we're getting there,it's been fun watching our 2-Z's coming together,hope you can make it out this year.To answer Capt. Obvious question,he's a great friend,he(Cameron) does have a shop here in Port Orchard Wa.It's under the name VolksFab.If you look up VW Tillamook Cheese Van&Pick-up's you will see his work,he is well known in the VW community.He's also finishing the interior,Jay is his interior guy(another one of the best).The mount's he building for my Vintage Recaro another work of art.Cameron told me it's not a cheap bar to build,i believe him.