have now a car with 22 colours.” This was when the project really started. Georg and Christel decided to first have the top layer of paint removed as it was the thickest part. You can see remnants of it in the rear panels and the red stripe on the bonnet. The task of the paint removal was given to Martin who did it in between other work. Once that layer was removed, revealing a yellow/green shade, George set about removing layers of paint himself. “It was trial and error. I scratched a little bit here and there to see which colour came next. The
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objective was to show as many colours as possible that the Miura has had in its life. I call it painting backwards and the risk was always when you go too fast from one colour to another. You can miss some colours, or they can disappear forever. There was no guide or anything on how to do it. Nobody could tell me to stop here or stop there. When you touch the paint you can feel all these hills and valleys on the surface. What I have learned is that these old colours were not based on water like today’s paints but were synthethic resin paints. So they are very powerful and very different from
