white2lsr

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My car is supposedly painted rosso red which is its origional colour. It has been painted at some point in the last few years by a previous owner. Its just gone to the bodyshop and I have just rough fitted a bonnet I bought. The bonnet was apparently Rosso also but its much darker/ red than the car which is more of a brighter/orangy red. My question is which shade is the lighter orangy red, rosso or radient?

Im just wondering, if the bonnet is Rosso then maybe the car was painted radient when it was repainted instead od rosso.

Any help to clear this up is greatfully recieved

jaiscossie

Radient is a much brighter red, early s2s were rosso, 90specs were radient i believe

fuzzy

it could be anything if a previous owner had it resprayed.

tabetha

Surely the bodyshop has a colour/shade chart ?
tabetha

white2lsr

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its a one man band who works out of a small building, so i cant imagine he will have colour chips. He looked at the car and said it will probably be Radiant red. Im not bothered really as I like the colour the car is, I just want to know.

jaiscossie

Hard to tell in your aviator, got any better pics? Radient red is common on zetec s fiestas, late escorts etc, park next to one and see if its the same or not...

white2lsr

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Better ones in my project thread.

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jaiscossie

Deffo looks like radient mate, this is rosso http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1182505.htm

cozzfather

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i have had hundreds of mk3 and 4 escorts and the rosso mk4's were early and radient later on 86 to 88 and 89 to 91.

basically the darker shade is rosso and the lighter is radient.
cheeRS

Karlos G

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+1
D plates you might find in Rosso but not any later.

dave cos4x4

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pretty sure Radiant came out in 89, the early g reg cars were radiant.

white2lsr

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Correct, the car 'should' be Rosso according the the plate o the front panel.

RobL

my e plate was rosso i also had an 89 f plate that was radiant

Robs Frst

My 90 spec H reg was radient.

cozzfather

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i have had e reg rosso xr3i's and xr2's too and had f reg rosso xr2's but radient f reg xr3i's.

RobL

werent all red xr2s rosso?

cozzfather

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the point i'm making rob is ford changed over from rosso to radient,you could get a radient f reg xr3i but not a radient f reg xr2 ??? seemed odd at the time.

i have had hundreds of xr2's too and they looked great in rosso red.

RobL

yeah just wasnt 100% sure they were all rosso
i think rosso is the better red tbh as long as it aint faded