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[Berlin]

What were the original colours the 1977 Porsche 924 come in. I am repainting my car and want it to look good. The old lady I bought it from painted it purple and they did a really bad job.

[Smoothie]

Yikes! Purple?!?!?
Ok, I'll admit, I once had a purple van. -And yes, I painted it myself, but they tricked me! They called it "Indigo Blue" and I picked it from a tiny sample under flourescent light. I also have a color vision deficiency! I swear what I was seeing was royal blue with little flecks of red in it. (it was Metalflake) Even the primer was some red-blue-kinda pink crap. I'll tell ya - when you're out on the driveway spraying pink primer on your car and neighbors arrive home and get out of their cars laughing, you don't have to wonder for long what they're laughing about. I brought the rest of my primer down to NAPA and had them add some green tint to counteract the magenta wildness and after I sprayed on the "Indigo Blue" flakes, I tamed that by topping with a few layers of candy apple blue. What a friggin' project.

Porsche colors -
I have the parts catalog that includes a listing of colors, but they're in German and it doesn't say which ones went with what years. Here are the first 5: diamantsilber, dolomitgrau, geminigrau, heliosblau, hellblau.


Oh duh, your name's Berlin, maybe you speak German?


[ This Message was edited by: Smoothie on 2002-04-17 10:08 ]

[924RACR]

It might help if you could either find the original paint code or indicate what kind of color you want. Beware of the early-mid 70's colors - those are the only years that Porsche's colours sucked, IMHO.

This link might also help:
http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/gilliams/371/color.html

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[d12-Matt]

The Google translate thing says this:

diamond silver, dolomite-grey, Gemini-grey, Helios-blue, light blue

[Smoothie]

Fine thing, that Google. If I get a sudden burst of energy, I'll key in the rest of the colors and see what they are.

[Smoothie]

Ah, energy... Hopefully I can get through this before it fades.

(From 1980-85 parts catalog)

Under "Lacquer Synthetic Resin" (all are metallic):
diamantsilber
dolomitgrau
geminigrau
heliosblau
hellblau
hellbronze
inarisilber
indianarot
lhasa
meteor
minervablau
montegoschwarz
moosgruen
onyx
petroblau
platin
rubinrot
saphir
saturn
schwarz
sienarot
surinam
zermattsilber
zinn
zobelbraun

English:
diamond silver
dolomite-grey
Gemini-grey
Helios-blue
light blue
light bronze
Inari-silver
Indiana-red
Lhasa (a dark green)
meteor
Minerva-blue
Montego-black
moos green (maybe should be moss green?)
onyx
Petro-blue
platinum
ruby-red
sapphire
saturn
black
Siena-red
Surinam
Zermatt-silver
tin
Zobel-brown





[ This Message was edited by: Smoothie on 2002-04-20 07:16 ]

[Smoothie]

Under "Final Lacquer Synth Resin":

kopenhagenblau
malagarot
mexicobeige
monacoblau
pasadenagelb

English:
Copenhagen-blue
Mexico-beige
Malaga-red
Monaco-blue
Pasadena-yellow

(From 1980-85 parts catalog)



[ This Message was edited by: Smoothie on 2002-04-20 07:17 ]

[Smoothie]

Under "Final Acryl Lacquer":

alpinweiss
amethyst
coloradobeige
flieder
gabungrau
gambiarot
havannabraun
indischrot
malagarot
mauritiusblau
mexicobeige
moccaschwarz
monacoblau
schwarz
sundagruen
venusrot

English:
Alpine white
amethyst
Colorado beige
flieder
Gabon grey
Gambia red
Havanna brown
Indian red
Malaga red
Mauritius blue
Mexico beige
mocca black
Monaco blue
black
Sunda green
Venus red


(From 1980-85 parts catalog)

[ This Message was edited by: Smoothie on 2002-04-20 07:18 ]

[SpiNko]

Hey...!! theres nothing wrong with purple!

look! http://members.shaw.ca/spinkpic/DSC00491.JPG

[friskynibbles]

that purple actually looks really nice
i want to paint mine the blue colour of the new dodge pickups.

[Paul T.]

You forgot "kupfer metallic" (L95F), which translates to copper metallic. It is on the color plate attached to my '77 model.

[Smoothie]

Sorry. I guess if I were a truly competent poster I would have checked the years that my parts catalog covers. It only goes from 1980 - 1985.

[Cbass]

I saw a beautiful maroon paint job once. It was 2 coats of silver, and then a mix of 2:1 metallic candy apple red / metallic silver. It was a rich burgundy, with plenty of sparkle... I need a spray gun!