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weird dilemma.. bought a 997 gt3 mk1 last month, took it to porsche to do pinning on the coolant lines. Porsche found numerous random problems with the car (big rear impact, frame dmg, repainted whole car). Returned the vehicle to the used car dealer and found a midnight blue one that we're working a deal on.
tried to google search and couldnt find many. Does anyone know how many midnight blue gt3s were made? saw the registry website but doesn't show count on it.
Last edited by yoojeankim; 02-29-2016 at 12:53 PM.
was it the same dealer that sold you this Porsche in the first place? the PPI didn't return any of those issues?
Blue 997.1 GT3s aren't common at all, I don't believe I've even seen one in person. the blue i believe that came out was called Cobalt Blue, others might be PTS?
carfax notes the car was originally blue and ive also checked with a good friend of mine whos a porsche advisor here. Midnight was offered but not sure how many were made.
the dealer that sold me the previous white one is handling the transaction but i found the new vehicle myself. their inspection gentlemen didnt see any of these damages nor did the previous porsche dealerships in the past so it went through a handful of shops before getting noticed. Thankfully Porsche of CO. Springs were on top of it and found this early on.
apparently there was a total of 4 blue colors on 997.1 GT3s... two optional metallic paints that were blue; cobalt blue metallic and midnight blue metallic. Then under "special paint options" which I assume to possibly mean PTS? well there was a dark teal metallic and a lapis blue metallic.
here is a link to the 997.1 color options...it's sort of hard to read, just be sure to differentiate the std GT3 vs the RS because it's not that intuitive on the page. Unfortunately they do not break out by color. But anecdotally I will say I recently spend time looking for a GT3 997.1 and didn't see many in any color blue. Mainly white/black. I ended up getting a basalt black (also an optional metallic option).
Good luck on finding a midnight blue example. You my have a better shot at an atlas grey model which also appears dark blue during the day, and black at night or a cobalt blue. Even the mentioned colors are fairly rare I'm guessing
Good luck on finding a midnight blue example. You my have a better shot at an atlas grey model which also appears dark blue during the day, and black at night or a cobalt blue. Even the mentioned colors are fairly rare I'm guessing
thanks but im guessing you didnt read my whole post? lol i'm working on the deal for one! cross fingers! set up the PPI for tomorrow noon, will go from there.
Eight midnight blue GT3s were produced for the USA, all in 2007. One was made for Canada in 2008. That be it.
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02-28-2016, 06:14 PM
Any Midnight Blue GT3s out there?
