Ruby Red Where Are You?

I received 4 tan cloth samples from Cabrioworld today. I’m guessing that they are the colors called Light Neutral, Tan, Dark Beige & Driftwood. It would have been nice if the samples were in fact labeled that way, but they have a series of SF numbers along with the words Hirsch Auto and a 10 digit number I assume is Mr. Hirsh’s phone number on the back. Looking at my monitor I’m guessing the number equate to colors thusly; Light Neutral SF-24, Tan SF-6, Dark Beige SF-30 & Driftwood SF-22. Whatever it is called, SF-24 is nearly a dead ringer for the 2003 + up cloth top.

I asked for a sample of Ruby Red and they didn’t include it, much to the delight of my wife who dismissed the color as possibly being to close in color to the car. She has listened to me say plenty of times, “If you cannot match adjoining colors exactly you should have a large enough of a difference so that is doesn’t look like you tried to match and failed.” And has learned that lesson well. I told her that I had never done anything to the car that would make it look silly and was not about to start now (conveniently forgetting about the plastic Rabbit Teeth that I had in the mouth of the previous Miata for a short while.)

I am disappointed by RR’s omission and would still like to see what that color looks like, so I plan on re-asking for a sample of it. And to make it interesting I’m going to ask that they send me a sample of Burgundy and Dark Brown too.