cobalt

Maybe so but I prefer the paint on my car to the thin paint that chips easily on the newer cars of today.

Marine Blue

Don't get me wrong, I also prefer the older paints for several reasons. I really like the fact that no two cars will look completely the same and I also think it gives each car a "personality".

Not only are newer paints thin, they don't seem to draw you in like the older paints did. I've seen newer lexus/cadillac/mb/bmw paints which are pearl or candy colors and with exception to two or three Lexus colors they are all very boring. Porsche still does a nice job with some of their metallics but they also charge an arm and a leg.

They just don't build them like they used to.

Shark Attack

crystal green

Tom in Austin

Great thread! It's terrific that so many 928s were painted in these amazing colors. My car's paint is called "Rhodamine" Red on the jamb sticker, but is more commonly referred to as "Raspeberry" in english-language publications (I haven't the faintest idea what Rhodamine is, thought it might have been a gemstone or something).

The color has grown on me ... when I first got the car my wife liked to joke that I'd been selling Mary Kay, but like many on the thread, I like having something different. I know of two 968s that were painted this color; one's a convertible driven by Sharon Stone in a 1994 movie, and the other is the coupe below that I saw on the web ...

anpo

Spoke with previous owner last week and found out that my L999 actually is Arena Red which had been painted as some kind of prototype a year before it was available stock. This was also somehow to explain why it was fitted with US-bumper even though OO was from Stuttgart and why it didn't found its way out on the streets until 1991. The interior is Linen which I believe also wasn't avalable stock in 1990 and later cars (and it's full leather dash etc.).

mcholdfast

Beautiful car. I've had two 90 models with Linen interior so I'm guessing it was a standard offering in 1990 although both of mine were two tone so full linen interior may have been a special order option.

Marine Blue

I love Arena Red. I will own a 993 C2S in that color one day.

Nice looking shark!

doug 88 s4

Hummmm.....
I have silver metallic also S7S7 code mine got tagged by radar what am I doing wrong?

anpo

That would make sense.. Gotta be something special bout the 98 code but I don't know for sure. Thanks for the compliments

rj777

Another vote for Felsengrun metallic. I've only seen maybe 4 or 5 others here. I love this color. In early-morning or late-afternoon light, it looks for all the world like a brilliant 'meteor grey'. In the full, strong sunlight of noontime, it borders on a pewter/gunmetal type of color.



rick j
rj777

Vilhuer

L in front of paint color code is not Lackierung. It means paint manufacturer Lesonal.

http://www.elferclassic.de/technik/f...plack_info.php
http://www.elferclassic.de/technik/f...lack_weiss.php

cobalt

Interesting that my car always seems to be used for Cobalt. LOL

SMTCapeCod

Would be quite a thing to see an Arena, Velvet and Zyclamrot parked together. Think I'm still hooked on the Z. Wonder what production numbers might have been.

77tony

The "Red's" at the 09 3rd Coast event. IIRC, Tom's beautiful Raspberry GTS (bottom pic) was at the event on Sat but not on Sun when top pic was taken. Just T

Tom in Austin

Hey T, what a couple of beautiful sharks! Since you asked, here are a few more views of the Raspberry GTS for ya ...