MelissaInNJ

If you had to repaint your car right this moment...what color would you chose?

Assuming I had a 944 , there is this deep red that has flecks of black paint in it that just speaks to me. It's just a deep rich dark red. I have seen it or the like on some *gasp* Ford models. It's just a sweet red.

Melissa

Rock

Black. like it already is.

Porsche-O-Phile

Welcome to the board.

In most cases it is best to always keep it the original color. Unless you're removing the engine, carpets, etc. there is ALWAYS going to be some evidence of the original color somewhere (floor pans, under hood, firewall, under rear deck, etc.) In such a case particularly if you want the car to have any sort of eventual collectable value why would you do anything else?

Even a $2,000 paint job looks awfully stupid when you open your hood and the color is different. . .

Porsche-O-Phile

Actually I kind of like the Ford Black they're using on some of the new vehicles. It's absolutely metal-flake free and black as my soul. Looks baaaaaaad!

Yabo

I second black since mine already is and thats what color sports cars should be.

MelissaInNJ

Indeed...very smart.

Since the only 944 I will buy is a red 944, then this "fantasy paint job" won't be too drastic. I also don't buy cars for how much they will be valued at the end. I buy them for me at the moment. Sometimes they have value when I am done, sometimes they don't. C'est la vie!

Thanks for the welcome. I've been hanging around for awhile. You can welcome me for real when I do get the 944, and upgrade my membership. It will be a rite of passage!

Melissa

Shutemup

I like my maroon

Fishey

You have to do a complete strip down...


Paint the car adventuring GREEN <----- Its like sex but better

Dave

I think some of you may have forgotten something, the cardex will show the original color so even if changing to another factory color and dropping $5-10K to do it right, the value would still be diminished...not that a 944 will be that collectable in the near future, but if you're gonna take it apart and refinish it that carefully it may as well be a correct restoration.

M758

Hmm
For a race car... Gulf blue complete with orange strip...



Look closely...

Yep it is painted on the INSIDE too...

Porsche-O-Phile

I actually considered going with black on mine when paint time comes (black looks very nice on 944s with their lines) because any non-matching areas wouldn't look too bad (original color is dark silver/grey ("slate grey metallic") but the overwhelming concensus on a poll I ran was "keep it stock". In pondering this, I have to agree. . .

Black is nice but VERY difficult to keep clean looking. Every little ripple, scratch, ding, or speck of dust seems amplified about 100X with a black car.

CPTdooberhead

Any color but flamingo metallic.... I hate my color...

I would go Copenhagen blue...like my Euro NA 944 I had

xsboost90

some kind of metallic orange/auburn color would look sweet! Or candy blue over silver.

Cyrus951

Someone's got to paint a 951 byzanz

944Fest (aka Dan P)

Any more pics of that Gulf 951? SWEET!!