tcracing

Does anyone know how to find out how many '73 911 Rose Red cars were made?

'73 Rose Red 911

myflat6

beautiful color - i havent seen many of these. from what i understand, this was a special order color for the 1972 thru 1975 model year cars.

GTgears

pu911rsr

I had a 72 S in that color, at the time I could not stand color, wish I had that one back. It would take someone digging through the all the 73 Kardex's to figure that out. Ryan has done that for the impact bumper 2.7 MFI cars and the 3.0 turbos but I never seen that data for other years. I've seen data for broken down for the various blues, greens reds silver etc but I can't recall what years, let me poke around in my files.

Phil

tcracing

Thanks, Phil.

tcsracing1

i like the color more then red!

pu911rsr

I looked through my files and did not locate article. Christphorus published this information on the earlier 911's - won't have exact information you are looking for. I'll look through the information I have on the 2.7 MFI car - that will at least give you a directional indication on how few cars were painted this color, not many.

Phil

myflat6

Wow I would be very interested to see this article.

myflat6

I found this below from a post on Pelican. Not sure if this was the article you were thinking about. I have been curios about Signal Yellow - I rarely see it. This seems to indicate yellow may not have been popular.

Porsche released these figures in the October 1970 Christophorus:

For 1960 the breakdown of colors ordered was:
Grey tones 38%
Ivory 20%
Red 19%
Blue 12%

For 1964 the breakdown was:
Ivory 27%
Red 26%
Greys 14%
Blue 10%

For 1970:
Oranges 26%
Ivories 14%
Greens 14%
Reds 14%
Blues 11%
Silver 8%
Yellows 4%
Black 1%

pu911rsr

Bill,

That looks like the same sort of information as I remember.

Phil

mstier

It's amazing the way fashions in car colors change. Black isn't even listed in either of the first two years above, and it's only at 1% in 1970. For so many years in the last 20 it seemed to dominate, and now white seems to have taken over, with silver/gray a clear runner-up or third place. Personally, I'd kill for a 356 in the ivory they used to use, which you hardly ever see in a 911 newer than about '69.

And that Rose Red is a really interesting color. I don't believe I've ever seen a car, Porsche or otherwise, in that shade. Beautiful.