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I like the guy with the cigarette hanging from his mouth!
I bet you none of those workers had the slightest inkling that 45 years later people would be drooling over those very cars they were putting together.
And those colors! Such wonderful tones of yellow, blue, green. Why do they make such ****ing stupid colors these days. **** the 1000 shades of grey and silver they make today.
Porsches should not be black, silver, gray or white. I might be biased as an owner of a 1987 911 Carrera, paint code L80F. Carmine, a red rarely seen, a red always commented on and a red befitting of this awesome machine.
The “new” colors to me are plain, everyday mundane: black doesn’t accent the lines of these beautiful cars, black the color of limousines and hearses. Everyone has a silver car, gray the color of the sky in England, and white the color of 1950’s refrigerators.
People will say there is nothing like a black car when clean and polished, therein lies the rub (pun intended), black cars are impossible to keep clean and polished. Or they will say silver, the German racing team color. I think urban legend has it that the German racers of the 1930’s were painted white, then the paint was removed to save weight and they were left with a silver car, bare metal aluminum that is. So silver, white what is it? And then there is gray, why?
Porsche is known as a company among many great things for “paint to sample”. I doubt any other company has done it as well or as often. Imagine the reaction in Zuffenhausen if a customer requested black, silver, gray or white! Finally, we look to the Porsche family for some guidance on this subject, their favorite color for their personal cars is Hunter Green, not black, silver, gray or white.
I submit to you P-cars should be an interesting, unique color to acknowledge their unique stature as a sports car. There is no substitute.
Porsches should not be black, silver, gray or white. I might be biased as an owner of a 1987 911 Carrera, paint code L80F. Carmine, a red rarely seen, a red always commented on and a red befitting of this awesome machine.
The “new” colors to me are plain, everyday mundane: black doesn’t accent the lines of these beautiful cars, black the color of limousines and hearses. Everyone has a silver car, gray the color of the sky in England, and white the color of 1950’s refrigerators.
People will say there is nothing like a black car when clean and polished, therein lies the rub (pun intended), black cars are impossible to keep clean and polished. Or they will say silver, the German racing team color. I think urban legend has it that the German racers of the 1930’s were painted white, then the paint was removed to save weight and they were left with a silver car, bare metal aluminum that is. So silver, white what is it? And then there is gray, why?
Porsche is known as a company among many great things for “paint to sample”. I doubt any other company has done it as well or as often. Imagine the reaction in Zuffenhausen if a customer requested black, silver, gray or white! Finally, we look to the Porsche family for some guidance on this subject, their favorite color for their personal cars is Hunter Green, not black, silver, gray or white.
I submit to you P-cars should be an interesting, unique color to acknowledge their unique stature as a sports car. There is no substitute.
I somewhat agree with you, however, I had a good laugh at the fact that I own colors polar silver, black, and white. At least one of my P cars is red.
cool whip, i agree all of these cars are beauties, the color is in the eye of the beholder... i once owned an artic silver 986, it was the perfect color for that car. i'm pontificating on some opinions i've seen elsewhere that the bold colors of the '70's and '80's Porsches are garish and "unbecoming"
06-29-2016, 02:37 AM
Porsche Factory Pictures from 1971
Great pics!
