by Mike –
Iso offered 24 exterior color choices, maybe more, there are 24 on this sample kit but there could have been others. This is a large selection for a small company and different than the Henry Ford philosophy of “any color you want as long as it is black”.
These pictures show an original Iso color sample kit. I am sure that some, or all, of these same colors were offered by other Italian car manufactures in the 1960s.
Below is the back of the color samples where the color names and codes are printed.
Here are the 24 colors.
They are named and numbered as follows, starting just above the Iso logo and going counter clockwise:
1) Bianco Polo Park – 20 W 152
2) Gallo Limone – 20 Y 420
3) Bleu Rivolta – 20 A 357
4) Rosso Aurora – 20 R 421
5) Rosso Fuoco – 20 R 306
6) Rosso Alfa – 20 R 133
7) Nero – 20 B 50
8 Argento Auteuil Metallizzato – 106 E 1
9) Volpe Argentata Metallizzato – 106 E 44
10) Luci Di Mezzanotte Metallizzato – 106 E 47
11) Beige Metallizzato – 106 E 52
12) Oro Antico Metallizzato – 106 Y 60
13) Beige Metallizzato – 106 Y 56
14) Verde Gemma Metallizzato – 106 G 53
15) Verde Acqua Metallizzato – 106 G 21
16) Verde Medio Metallizzato – 106 G 29
17) Verde Aintree Metallizzato – 106 G 81
18) Azzurro Metallizzato – 106 A 32
19) Blu Metallizzato – 106 A 51
20) Bleu Sera Metallizzato – 106 A 18
21) Rame Metallizzato – 106 R 49
22) Oro Andalusia Metallizzato – 106 Y 13
23) Rosso Rubino Metallizzato – 106 R 83
24) Rosso Cordoba Metallizzato – 106 R 7
Hi Mike – nice samples!! Never seen them before. Where did you find them? Thanks
Felix
A reader of My Car Quest and a friend sold this to me.