Whilst on my search for new things 131 and Abarth I stumbled upon an article on Italiaspeed covering the celebration of what would have been Karl (Carlo) Abarths 100th birthday.
There are many pics of the display in Turin showing an assortment of Abarth cars and a pic of the new Abarth 500 0-100 limited edition Assetto Corsa.
I thought the colour looked strangely familiar...
When I was building my 1000TC replica way back in 1996 I liked the shade of silver that was popular on exotic cars of the 1950's, a slight tint in the silver leant itself to curved body panels.
My Pal the sprayer was into old Lancias and he liked the same shade of silver.
We decided to paint my car Dolphin Grey as this had just the right tint.
When I was later running the car at Hillclimbs in Italy I was often asked by the Italian enthusiasts what the 'colore' was as they really liked it and were thinking of painting their cars the same shade.
I wonder who these guys were?...you never know