There are a lot of guesses, but does anybody know the correct gulf blue and orange codes?

I suspect its varried over the years, coming from the days when product marketing wasnt the multibillion dollar/pound industry it is now, i doubt that Gulf ever stipulated 100% specific codes to the manufacturers. Im sure people like Redbull have them all recorded these days to make sure the brand image remains constant.

There some codes listed here.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=835891

[Edited on 17-9-13 by loggyboy]

Brilliant, I was after the original specs.

A friend of mine painted a scooter in Gulf (lookalike) colours and made a nice job of it. I pointed out that the separating line is dark blue as he used black but he left it and it didn't stand out that much. Any pale blue and orange paint job would fool me.

The Orange is very very close to Ford Signal Orange an early 1970s Ford colour.

I'm told by some people that should know that the below are PPG colour codes that suit.

Powder blue (PPG 12163)
Topaz (orange) (PPG 60812)
Royal Blue for thin stripe between orange stripe and powder blue (PPG 13126)

The actual owners of the exact colours are actually based in Poole, found this out whilst researching the same subject last year. ill see if I can dig out their details.

Found the codes
Powder Blue = PPG 12163
Topaz Orange = PPG 60812
The supplier I found down south was for gelcoat but a good paint supplier should be able to backtrack from those codes.
HTH

and for completeness the ICI equivs are:

Light Blue P030/8013
Marigold P030/3393

gulf racing cars came in more than one shade of light blue

some where the well known sky blue (on gt40 le mans) and range darker to a french/powder blue but all had orange with a dark blue border

i read somwhere that the orignal sky blues where a triumph cars colour but dont know if this is true.

When built my gulf Indy ,I did loads of research and the answer which kept coming up was triumph herald powder blue