The whole "FLY yellow" thing is interesting Tony. I have heard that FLY actually is an acronym for "Ferrari Light Yellow" so "FLY yellow" would be Ferrari Light Yellow Yellow
I have found this info too from a Ferrari site that indicates that FLY Yellow s the exact shade of the town of Modena, Italy's town shield. The Ferrari Modena itself is supposedly the "only" correct car model that the paint came in, tough I have even seen a Porsche 911 painted in "FLY Yellow". FLY yellow is supposed to now be a proprietary PPG paint name, but don't hold me to that, rumor more than fact.
Two FLY Paint codes include:
20-Y-191 = Giallo FLY
20.Y.490 = Nuovo Giallo FLY
Now I used PPG 8028 I think for my "Giallo Modena" paint. Info at this site (
http://www.eurospares.co.uk/userImag.../PaintCode.htm) says: " Principally Scaglietti-built cars such as the 275 GTB series were delivered with paint manufactured by Glidden Salchi, whereas those built by Pininfarina had paint manufactured by either PPG or Duco, the latter only being in solid colors (non-metallic). The list below details all known paint colors available during the 1965 to 1973 period, where a code number is not listed, this is because the manufacturer did not list one."
The color "Giallo" used from 1965 to mid-1969 is one of those colors, like Nero, where the manufacturer did not assign a paint code.
It appears, according to this chart, that "Giallo FLY" became available in mid-1969.
On other web pages, I've seen the following paint code used for "giallo":
20-Y-346 = Giallo
In more info: "Giacomo Caliri is an Italian former Formula One engineer.
His racing career began in 1966 when Caliri graduated from Turin Polytechnic with a prize-winning thesis on aerodynamics.
He joined Ferrari in 1964 and became the head of aerodynamic studies in the racing department in 1969, replacing Mauro Forghieri who had moved to Ferrari's F1 department for the 1970 season. By 1974, he was the head of the design office at the Fiorano Circuit. He left Ferrari in 1976 and set up
FLY Studio in Modena, working in conjunction with Autodelta, Fittipaldi Automotive (he designed the F5A's aerodynamics in 1978) and ATS (he designed ATS D2 in 1979) on the design of competition cars.
He joined the Minardi Formula Two team in 1980 and became a stockholder of the Italian team. He became the technical director of the team in Formula One in 1985 and also designed the first Minardi Formula One car, the Minardi M185. He left Minardi in 1989 and also sold his stock in the team.
He joined Maserati as Technical Director. In 1997 he returned in Ferrari as the head of the Innovation Department. He left Ferrari in 2002 and started as a consultant for the ATR group.
Since 2004, he is the President of Expotecnica.
http://www.fly-studio.it/index.htm
Their contact info on their website is:
Fly-Studio
Viale Malmusi, 88 Viale Malmusi, 88
I-41100 Modena - Italy I-41100 Modena - Italy
email: info*fly-studio.it
Hope this helps. It does appear that Giallo Modena PPG 8028 is the closest you can get for an aftermarket paint for true "FLY yellow".
