Hard to find green

[Baz]

If you Google 'our 82 spy' you will see a pic of a spyder painted light metallic green or factory smoke metallic grey. I think this is one of the nicest colors I have seen on a Spider. Maybe the treed street had an impact on the color. Does anyone have any info on this paint job, or have seen this car ????

Baz

[rlux4]

It shouldn't be too hard to find. I had a '79 in that color in 1980. One of our Australlian members, adrians, has a turbo model in it that looks real nice. He had pictures posted, so maybe you can do a search on his earlier posts.
Ron

[adrians]

That car is the same color as my car, it's a factory original color.

Color is ‘Grigio Fumo Met’ – Grey Smoke Metallic, but looks metallic Olive green to me.

http://www.sandrin.com.au

Original Color tag in the trunk lid.

[Baz]

Hi adrians...thank you for your trouble....my question now is..if your colour was smoke metallic grey.....was there any green in it to give the appearance of the car at my 82 spy ???

Baz

[rlux4]

Much more green than grey. I never could understand where "smoke gray" came from. Looks totally misty green to me.
Ron

[Spiddy]

Somewhere, stuck in the back of an over paid marketing department, sits an idiot full of self importance whose task it is to invent colour names to make the product appear glamorous. And of course, the name need have no resemblance to the actual colour attall - hence your green being grey.

Mercedes certainly had such a moron. The colour of the one I had was called Blue Black. There wasn't a hint of blue anywhere and it wasn't even black. It should have been called "Very Dark Charcoal Grey Metalic" - but I guess that's a bit boring. BUT AT LEAST IT'S ACCURATE

[kristoj]

There was an original paint car in near perfect condition at FFO that was this color. It was gorgeous -- but definitely NOT grey as the name suggests.