Originally Posted by
Stanger
Thanks for the response. The Bianchi I'm considering painting Celeste was originally white. I actually took the frame in to have the white paint matched(very creamy, so a stock color wasn't cutting it) and the paint shop said they needed a flast 2x3 inch area for a match. So as it turns out, it wouldn't have mattered if the frame were celeste or not with this particular shop. Once I found they couldn't match my white, I decided to further pursue celeste. So many discussions but only one paint code and it was Sikkens. This stuff is elusive!
It's a lot easier to match a colour when you don't have it, because if your a little off, it doesn't actually make much difference. Celeste is a pastel turquoise, in the 1950's and 1960's pastel car colours were quite popular, for example in 1957 Chevy had a colour they called Larkspur Blue that would be pretty close, maybe a little too blue though. If you want something more Italian then in 1965 Alfa Romeo had a colour called azzurro ****lo that would also be fairly close, some of the paint panels are tough to read though. Go
here then knock yourself out.