Paint colors on Porsche vehicles. From samples to booklets from the appropriate era and a database of colors, this is your ultimate research hub. By the end of the sixties, the taste for colors was pretty different than in the early/mid 60ies where some color hues still resembled 50ies Porsche 356 shades.
Take out the orange hues and you have an up to 1968/69 situation. After 1968/69 I would guess the orange/yellow colors took over. Porsche promoted all signal colors (yellow, orange, green) as a passive safety element.
The car was more. Porsche Arena Red Metallic is a shade of medium metallic red. It is one of a handful of colors that spanned the air-cooled and water-cooled 911 eras at Porsche, being offered on both the 993 and the 996.
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Here's some scans of the original color chart from 1970. Guards Red has a special place in the Porsche colour chart and it used on current models, this beautiful shade was used in the first 260-hp 3.0L engined version of the now timeless Porsche 911 Turbo Type 930 between 1975 and 1977, and then in a revised variant housing a 3.3L turbocharged. Rennbow is searchable by color name, color family, model, model year, or in its entirety via a page with color samples designed to look like a factory paint color brochure from the 1970s.
The site launched today, June 11, 2019, and it will be free of charge to both PCA members and non. 911 Spirit 70 Highlights. Quotes of an era.
Bringing the 70s back: Olive Neo as the body color and decorative strips on the hood. Decorative graphics on the sides of the vehicle, the windshield frame in Satin Black and Bronzite on the wheels, front end and rear fascia add even more accentuating details. This page provides a complete overview of paint colors offered by Porsche across different models and years.
This includes both Porsche's own paints and those sourced from other manufacturers but made available through Porsche from factory. The Auto Color Library Slogan "Where yesterday's colors come alive today" is true! They provide the actual automotive paint color standard reference chips for nearly all makes and models since automobiles were made, all the way back to the year 1900 and all the way up to the current automobiles made now. The chasses for the Porsche 914 and Porsche 914/6 model lines were all produced by Karmann in the same factory on the same production line.
Subsequently, the color choices for the Porsche 914 and Porsche 914/6 models were also identical, although Porsche chose to assign different paint codes to the 1970 914/6 models.