My 97 is single stage as well.

 

My 96 is clear-coated. Are you guys sure yours have no clear coat? How did you test for it?

 

i saw a fly yellow driving towards me - my first impulse was to hold out my hand and wave it down as a taxi

 

To check for clear coat, take some polish or rubbing compound on a white rag, and rub the paint firmly, someplace inconspicuous. If you get color on the rag, there's no clear coat. I know guards red was not clearcoated in 95.

I have heard Porsche started using clear coat on solid colors when they started making Boxsters at the Saab factory in Valmet ... all the paint there is clearcoated, and it makes sense that a single stage guards red 993 next to a clearcoated guards red Boxster in the showroom would appear differently.

Vic
95 C4 cab

 

Jim, Rennlist has discussed this several times. According to Porsche, ALL colors (metallic or otherwise) on the 993 have clearcoat. Every 993 I've known (mine and some friends') has had a clearcoat. I cannot explain how some of you have no clearcoat. Assuming you know that for a fact.

 

Even more effective is super fine sandpaper. If the dust is whitish, it's clearcoat.

The part about the clearcoat introduction is incorrect. Clearcoat started before the Boxster was born and it was in Zuffenhausen.

Although they have assembled SAAB's before, Valmet Automotive is a private Finnish automotive subcontractor. At the present time, they only manufacture Boxsters.