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Nah, forget the $10, Here's what I did, just scanned through the pics of orange cars on PROVA MO looking at the wheels and as luck would have it some shots from this year's Reno event have just been posted and there's a picture of Tom sitting in the car wearing a button with his name on it! Now that you know it's Tom's car, hopefully someone else knows how to reach him - I'll try, but the first place I've checked has come up blank.

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My car is painted what I have been told is the stock pantera orange. I believe the guy. He is the tech rep for the Eastern Pantera Assoc. I have a Glassurit code of CMS 7004U along with a stock # of 224311. It is a 3 quart mixture and it breaks down each additive into what is probably grams thus:
Mo 560.1, M39 2290.2, M38 346.2, A126 144.0
M60 66.8. It also states that" Amounts listed are cumulative" Does any of this help?
Yes...thanks. The only thing is I can't say if I have ever seen an "original" orange car with factory color/paint. My car has been painted and what I have found is some orange colors end up with a more red/brown toned orange which is not to my liking. The brownish tone makes the color look somewhat muddy in tone. I prefer a more yellow tone in the orange...it just pops on the car. That's what I liked about Tom P's car. Honestly my wife and I have been in disagreement on color...I wanted to keep orange, she didn't like the color we have now because of the brownish tone. After seeing Tom P's car at Reno we both agreed that car just jumps at you and is a great looking orange.
Its McLaren Orange!!! If you were a fan of the Can Am series McLaren had won the championship I think four years in a row starting in 1967 or 68...I personally think that color was picked to piggy back on those successes (I had one of their Can Am cars so I'm a huge McLaren fan so that is just my bias, but there may be some truth behind it). I'll post some McLaren team car pics.

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I always liked the Pantera Orange, and when I saw this McLaren a few months ago liked it immediately ... the shadows caused it to come out darker in my photo than she appeared in real life! Tom, I hope you're not leading us down the path of hijacking your thread here Wink

Here's a link to a number of shots of the McLarens out in mixed sun and shade to give folks an idea of how this color is affected by light (cool bit of history about where the Pantera Orange came from Tom, thanks!) ... http://www.autoblog.com/2009/0...cers-40-years-later/

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