So, this is for a bicycle....looking at some ideas for blue paint - I am looking for a vivid, middle-weight blue. Deeper than gulf, but not as dark/cold as a navy, and maybe on the warmer, slightly greenish side. I seem to hear about a number of "historic" Porsche blues, from racing liveries or other iconic models. And, there are the graphite blue metallic and miami blue on the current lineup.

Is there a good resource on these blues from Porsches past?

Also - of course, I had to look at the Singer cars, and had to ask - is there a significance to the blues on the San Diego or Montana cars?

Much thanks




San Diego Singer




Cleveland Singer

 

Here's a good place to start http://teamspeed.com/forums/porsches...d-porsche.html

FWIW, maritime blue is one of my personal favorites.

 

Cleveland car looks pretty close to Oslo (one of my favorites.)

The San Diego color I don't recall seeing before on a 911, but I think it just became another favorite...

EDIT: I got curious, it looks to be similar to Crystal and/or Enamel Blue, but the shades of each vary significantly depending on what picture you look at.

 

Yes! it's become a bit of a detective hunt. They are so beautiful, though.

They have a new one up on their Facebook page, the Topanga car. That one and the San Diego one have become my favorites....if I could get close to this color, I'd be totally happy...

(Edit: Mexico blue? It looks a little darker hued than that...https://rennlist.com/forums/11041707-post59.html)



Topanga




Topanga

I think they did state their specific paints are proprietary, as I suspect some sort of custom mixing based on customer preference, and they are by definition high-dollar restorations so that is understandable.

 

Been waiting to lay this on someone. This site is the coolest....

http://www.elferclassic.de/technik/f...lack-weiss.php

(Left click on blue, then try *not* to check out all the others )

 

Funny, that is easily the best compilation and resource I've seen, yet it doesn't have my 964's (fairly common) blue! Midnight Blue Metallic.

 

Isn't that site reader-driven? If you sent them photos of the car and the plate with the color color plate I betmaybe they'd post up.