Hello All,

I need to get a new hood for my cabrio, but it is the colour that is proving the hard choice.

I will try and get the 993 style for it, as the lines are a lot nicer, however what colour to go with? Here is it with a very faded 20yo hood which i presume started off as dark blue...but now looks like lavender!

So do i go with dark blue again, or black, which some think will look better? Interior has blue dash and blue piping

Cheers

 

Dark Blue every day of the week.

 

First, the thing that covers the cockpit is called a TOP. The thing that covers the front of the car is called a HOOD, and the thing that covers the rear portion of a car is called a TRUNK.

Now you've had your American Language lesson

Get the COLOR blue!

 

+964

 

I think you'll find its COLOUR lol

Now back to the OP - Its got to be dark blue with that dash and door tops

Chris

 

+1 gotta be dark blue...

 

dark blue for sure

 

Haha...thanks for the lesson in Americanizm's (see what i did there with the zee)

Looks like dark blue is the way forward. So for the next Q, who would be best to fit a 993 style (one piece) hood/roof on? JZM gave me a good quote a while back...i am no where near competent enough to do this job myself.

Thanks again

 

here's a thread comparing the 964 top and 993 top on the same cab.
https://rennlist.com/forums/964-foru...s-964-top.html
and I also vote for dark blue

 

Originally Posted by BigMikeATL View Post
First, the thing that covers the cockpit is called a TOP. The thing that covers the front of the car is called a HOOD, and the thing that covers the rear portion of a car is called a TRUNK.

Now you've had your American Language lesson

Get the COLOR blue!

Second the vote for blue - dark blue

I always thought that the "hood" covered the engine, as "engine hood" and the 'trunk' was referred to as the storage area, as "put your suitcase in the trunk". So are we not backwards - and what about the term "bonnet".

 

ANd taking this one step further ;
I thought that these were interesting - especially (4.)

Definitions form internet look up

hood/ 1 - n
1. (Clothing & Fashion) a loose head covering either attached to a cloak or coat or made as a separate garment
2. something resembling this in shape or use
3. (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) the US and Canadian name for bonnet (of a car)
4. (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) the folding roof of a convertible car
5. (Clothing & Fashion) a hoodlike garment worn over an academic gown, indicating its wearer's degree and university
6. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Falconry) Falconry a close-fitting cover, placed over the head and eyes of a falcon to keep it quiet when not hunting
7. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) Biology a structure or marking, such as the fold of skin on the head of a cobra, that covers or appears to cover the head or some similar part
vb
(tr) to cover or provide with or as if with a hood
[Old English hōd; related to Old High German huot hat, Middle Dutch hoet, Latin cassis helmet; see hat]
Cheers - well at least they covered "bonnet"
And yes I have too much free time on my hands today -

 

Is a bonnet a hat or is it a car part that covers the engine?

Oh, stick with the body colo(u)r for whatever it is that thing is called, please.