Originally Posted by
Franc Rauscher
Perhaps I am mistaken about the term Machine grey.
There was a color one might call "gun metal blue." Like machine grey but with a blue tone. It was to that color I was referring. My body guy tells me it takes six layers of different paints to achieve.
Yes we do have a St Louis member with a gold roadster and Tuxedo seats. Susan and Mike. Their last names escape me.
My 2007 Coupe is Machine Gray and it does have a "bluish" hue to it. And it doesn't take a custom-like paint job to achieve. I buy the color from Automotive Touchup as a direct match.
The Graphite Gray color in 2004 - 2005 was somewhat like a "gum metal" gray back in the "good old days". Put cars of these colors side-by-side and there is a distinct difference in the hues. Graphite Gray is a traditional "gray-looking" car; Machine Gray looks sort of "steel blue", which Chrysler actually called a color they offered on the PT Cruiser. I don't think the Crossfire color & the PT Cruiser color are the same, but they are close. Machine Gray definitely has some blue-like metallic in it.
If you look over the MOPAR color chart attached, it clearly shows the distinction between the 2 grays offered on the Crossfire.
I can still see that Oyster Gold Roadster with the Tuxedo interior. Attached picture will let everyone else see it. I remember because it was the 1st Crossfire I saw with the Tuxedo interior & the Dark Gray steering wheel. Can't remember whether he changed it out or it was a 2008 car, which came that way.
