Tropic Torquoise

[ban617]

Does anyone know if Tropic Torquoise has metallic in it ? I have looked at some pics & can't tell... I know there was a 69 Camaro posted on here that color but couldn't find it ...
Thanks Rob

[Kurt S]

There was no 69 color by that name. Azure Turquoise??
Here are your 69 choices: http://www.camaros.org/numbers.shtml#ExteriorColors

[ban617]

Ok , I was going from a 66 paint code & remembered the Torquoise in the name

[DWR]

Tropical Turquoise in 1966 was a metallic color.

[StealthBird]

Azure Turquoise was also metallic. http://www.4smileys.com/smileys/happy-smileys/happy-smiley45.gif (http://www.4smileys.com)

[WILMASBOYL78]

There was a Tropical Turquoise available on the 1968 Nova...in fact it was one of the 4 colors of the Gibb cars. Very cool...not something you see everyday.

-wilma

[ban617]

Ok , thanks for the info how close is the Azure Torquoise compared to Tropic Torquoise?

[Lee Stewart]

Nova, Chevelle and Camaro Turquoise Colors By Year:

1965: Artesian Turquoise

1966: Artesian Turquoise

1967: Emerald Turquoise

1968: Tripoli Turquoise

1969: Azure Turquoise

Tropical Turquoise was a 1957 Chevrolet color BTW. It's a solid color - non-metallic. All the other Turquoise colors listed above are metallic. You can see how much different the hue is

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Please keep in mind that photos of cars can be a little misleading when it comes to comparing colors due to the lighting they were photographed by. Bright sunlight will make a car's color look lighter than either overcast, shade or indoors.

[Jonesy]

Heres my Azure Turq 69 Camaro. The color looks different at night and day

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z279/jones93_photos/1974%20Camaro%20LT-Z28/69%20Camaro%20Azure%20Turquoise/1969%20Camaro3_zpsknhbpj8l.jpg

[Jonesy]

http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2016/04/full-462-42237-img_1714.jpg

[markinnaples]

All of those Turquoise colors are beautiful, esp the 67, 68, and 69. Surprising more people didn't order those colors.

[Lee Stewart]

All of those Turquoise colors are beautiful, esp the 67, 68, and 69. Surprising more people didn't order those colors.

Turquoise was never a very popular color (during the middle to late 1960s). For the 1970 model year Misty Turquoise was available for the Chevelle and the Nova but not the Camaro. And that was the end of Turquoise. The 1971s didn't offer it.

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[1970Bluel78]

I always thought Tropical Turquoise was a mid 60's Ford color

[Lee Stewart]

I always thought Tropical Turquoise was a mid 60's Ford color

It was: 1965

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But Chevy used it first in 1956:

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[danachevroletfor1967]

I've always liked those turquoise colors from the 1960's and early 70's. I used to own a '69 coupe that was painted by a previous owner Hugger Orange but was originally Azure Turquoise; I would have much preferred the original color. Here is my '67 RS SS in Tahoe Turquoise.

[markinnaples]

That '67 is beautiful.

[DW31S]

I sure do miss my Azure Turquouse '69 Camaro. Had it while I was a junior in high school. Jonesy, the picture of your car and the little avatar thumbnail I'm guessing are the same car, but the lighting makes them appear different shades. Gorgeous, by the way.

[wheelhop]

My azure turquoise SS postsedan as purchased.

[Jonesy]

I sure do miss my Azure Turquoise '69 Camaro. Had it while I was a junior in high school. Jonesy, the picture of your car and the little avatar thumbnail I'm guessing are the same car, but the lighting makes them appear different shades. Gorgeous, by the way.

Pics of my car are on a cloudy day. The color does look different. When it used to be my daily driver, I would park it on the street under the street lights and it looked different then too. The pic of the thumbnail is under fluorescent lighting.
Maybe it has to do with the metallic in the paint.

[Lee Stewart]

Pics of my car are on a cloudy day. The color does look different. When it used to be my daily driver, I would park it on the street under the street lights and it looked different then too. The pic of the thumbnail is under fluorescent lighting.
Maybe it has to do with the metallic in the paint.

Fluorescent lights and mercury lights make many colors look much lighter then they do in sunlight, shade, cloudy or under incandescent lights

Here is a perfect example - a photo taken by mrays at a Mecum auction. Compare it to a photo taken in sunlight:

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It has to do with what the color temperature (on the Kelvin Scale) of what white is based on a black body curve (see photo below). Lights that are "super white" like the mercury lights above have a white color temperature in the 11,000 K range (called COOL) while lights that are lower on the BBC - nearer the red zone are called WARM and will have a white color temperature of around 5400K. Ever see the whitening liquid you put in a washing machine when you do your whites - it's blue.

If you have a really good camera and know what you are doing, you can adjust the color temperature to compensate for different lighting situations. BTW - Fluorescent lights have a tendency to add a green tint to a photo.

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[olredalert]

----I recognize that COPO!!!......Bill S

[scuncio]

Mike, your RS/SS is gorgeous.