Fiesta Red Paint Question

[Jetmarvinwelch]

Here's a picture of the ford ka in sunrise red, I believe you can go into halfords with the registration plate number and from that they can find the paint code and mix the correct colour paint from that, so that way you will get an exact match of the paint colour,
Good luck

[Billyboygretsch]

I bought a can of sunrise red too red . It did not match my factory guitar colour or the fiesta red from Northwest . Nice colour though .

[dave robinson]

That Ford red looks pretty workable.
In the seventies I did a spray job on a Strat using a colour that Austin used on the Allegro, almost Fiesta red but I just mixed in a little white until it 'pinked' and it enough to do the job. The same method could work with the Ford colour.
If you look closely, the Japanese tend to make their Fiesta red more on the orange side, where original colour on our '59 Strat and the '62 USA Vintage re-issues have a pink hue, suggesting the adding of a touch of white.

[kipper]

Allegro, almost Fiesta red . i just cant get that image right in my mind peter

[dave robinson]

I seem to think name of the Austin Allegro paint was 'Vermillion'.

[stephen]

You know, after seeing yet another thread on the on-going Fiesta Red topic, I can't help but think how simpler life would be for those who seem to fret (no pun intended!) theirs away on this subject, if only THAT guitar had been BLACK!
I nearly also said white, but as there are so many shades/nuances of that non-colour, it would have been just as problematic as this shade of red has proved to many over the years.
I bought a Mexican Classic Series 50's Stratocaster a few years back. It stated 'Fiesta Red' on the hang-tag and that's been good enough for me. Of the many things that unfortunately cause my 65 year old head NOT to give way to sleep, pondering over whether or not my guitar's Fiesta Red is the 'right' one, is thankfully not one of them!

[dave robinson]

I recently bought a bunch of parts and made my own custom Strat. The body was advertised as fiesta red, but it's got more red in it, similar to the Mark Knopfler custom signature Strat and I like it better.
With the gold parts including a Wilkinson push in trem, the guitar stands me at £250 and sounds as good as any Stat I've had.