Midnight Blue or not??
02-28-2003, 07:18 AM
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Midnight Blue or not??
Hello 964'ers, I hope you can help me work out the official name of my 993 color and clarify an aquaintances 964 color....
My '95 car is paint code L39C, known by most as "Midnight Blue".
I parked next to a dark metallic blue '93 964 at a Porsche meet recently. The owner knew it as "Midnight Blue" however it was a very differant color to mine, much darker. We checked the code, L37W.
I checked the official Porsche paint code book with my local OPC. Both L39C and L37W are listed as "Midnight Blue", BUT THEY'RE DIFFERANT COLORS on the samples in the book!
The touch up paint stick listed (by the OPC) for my car (L39C remember) was marked L37W!!
As the original author of a similar post (unanswered) on the 993 forum sometime ago said, <a href="http://www.paintscratch.com" target="_blank">www.paintscratch.com</a> list L39C as "Night Blue Metallic" and L37W as "Midnight Blue Pearl" and the samples on screen are definately differant.
My questions are....
Are these differant colors or not?
What is the official name for code L39C?
What was the official name for L37W?
Was L27W ever a 964 code?
I'm hoping Adrian Streather will be able to clear up my confusion, Adrian?
Mark
My '95 car is paint code L39C, known by most as "Midnight Blue".
I parked next to a dark metallic blue '93 964 at a Porsche meet recently. The owner knew it as "Midnight Blue" however it was a very differant color to mine, much darker. We checked the code, L37W.
I checked the official Porsche paint code book with my local OPC. Both L39C and L37W are listed as "Midnight Blue", BUT THEY'RE DIFFERANT COLORS on the samples in the book!
The touch up paint stick listed (by the OPC) for my car (L39C remember) was marked L37W!!
As the original author of a similar post (unanswered) on the 993 forum sometime ago said, <a href="http://www.paintscratch.com" target="_blank">www.paintscratch.com</a> list L39C as "Night Blue Metallic" and L37W as "Midnight Blue Pearl" and the samples on screen are definately differant.
My questions are....
Are these differant colors or not?
What is the official name for code L39C?
What was the official name for L37W?
Was L27W ever a 964 code?
I'm hoping Adrian Streather will be able to clear up my confusion, Adrian?
Mark
03-01-2003, 01:13 PM
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Hi Elliot, yep I'll get the full explaination to this if it kills me.
I'll edit my original post to get the year of your car correct.
To everyone else..... it was Elliot's car I parked next to.
I'll edit my original post to get the year of your car correct.
To everyone else..... it was Elliot's car I parked next to.
03-01-2003, 01:27 PM
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You may well be correct about the different colours, my Guards Red 964 has had a rust repair/spray job done, and the guys at the paint shop invited me down for a look, they had Glasurit paint cards, 4 of them for Guards Red, all slight variations from a brownish red, through to an orangeish red, most bizzare.
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03-02-2003, 06:46 AM
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Dear Mark,
The shades changed. In 1991 water based paints were introduced but in a limited range of colours. You have pearl effect, you have solid and you have metallic. There are even different shades of black. The paint structure was actually changed for the late 964s and the 993 series and this also changed the shades.
There is no black and white answer. As Kevin points out I have also seen many different shades of Guards/Indian red. Ranging from pinky red to really deep red.
There is no end to this story unfortunately you just have to accept that shades were changed but the names did not. Black is black right, not when it comes to Porsche.
Ciao,
Adrian
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The shades changed. In 1991 water based paints were introduced but in a limited range of colours. You have pearl effect, you have solid and you have metallic. There are even different shades of black. The paint structure was actually changed for the late 964s and the 993 series and this also changed the shades.
There is no black and white answer. As Kevin points out I have also seen many different shades of Guards/Indian red. Ranging from pinky red to really deep red.
There is no end to this story unfortunately you just have to accept that shades were changed but the names did not. Black is black right, not when it comes to Porsche.
Ciao,
Adrian
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Thanks Adrian, that's good enough for me. No more Blue's err... blues <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/beerchug.gif" />
I'll be able to sleep now <img border="0" alt="[sleep]" title="" src="graemlins/sleep.gif" />
I'll be able to sleep now <img border="0" alt="[sleep]" title="" src="graemlins/sleep.gif" />
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