The Argos Cycles website has a Gios Blue colour listed:
http://www.argoscycles.com/
Not sure how close it is to either the new or old Gios colours.
I ran across it while looking at potential new flamboyant colours for what will be my new old 1945 Bates (Thanks Martin!).
Currently entertaining suggestions for the Bates primary and accent colours, Charlie
Charles T. Young
Honeybrook. PA
<pgrizic@haggie.co.za>; <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 7:48 AM Subject: Re: [CR]Gios Blue
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> Subject: Re: [CR]Gios Blue
>
>
> Stehhen wrote:
>
> "As I understand it the unique "Gios Blue" cannot be duplicated today due
> to
> > some nasty chemicals that are no longer used or allowed in paint. Maybe
> > they still allow it in Italy?"
>
> I guess it depends on what you mean by "duplicated". Obviously every very
> paint vendor uses somewhat different pigments, resins, etc. Since there
are
> no Gios automobiles, the large U.S. paint manufacturers have no incentive
to
> produce a standard match and formula for the Gios color.
>
> For me, if I can get it close enough that the customer regards my custom
mix
> as a "match" for the original, that is all I really care to achieve.
>
> One time I took some bottles of Gios touch up, sprayed them out on a flat
> panel, and had my paint jobber scan the result with his portable computer
> linked paint scanner. The DuPont color scanner system could not produce a
> match but I have done perfectly well mixing by eye.
>
> Hugh Enox
> Jevelot
> La Honda