996 Unique Colors
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Originally Posted by Holger B
I ordered my 996 months before they even started building them (it ended up being the first one the dealer delivered). I like nonmainstream colors and they had a 993 on the lot that really caught my eye when I was at the dealer specing my car. The dealer showed me the color sample of it in the brochure and I could see why no one ever ordered it, it looked butt ugly there but was nice in person. We always called it Love It or Hate It Green (because it really polarized people), Porsche calls it Wimbledon Green. One day a guy with a 993 walked across a parking lot to tell me how much he loved the color, asked me what the color is called and then told me I was full of crap when I said Wimbledon, he even argued with me for awhile...
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Originally Posted by Holger B
I ordered my 996 months before they even started building them (it ended up being the first one the dealer delivered). I like nonmainstream colors and they had a 993 on the lot that really caught my eye when I was at the dealer specing my car. The dealer showed me the color sample of it in the brochure and I could see why no one ever ordered it, it looked butt ugly there but was nice in person. We always called it Love It or Hate It Green (because it really polarized people), Porsche calls it Wimbledon Green. One day a guy with a 993 walked across a parking lot to tell me how much he loved the color, asked me what the color is called and then told me I was full of crap when I said Wimbledon, he even argued with me for awhile...
sorry couldn't resist.
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Originally Posted by mooty
i like your non standard arctic silver GT3
sorry couldn't resist.
sorry couldn't resist.
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Originally Posted by Fast40th
From another biased perspective -- given that I'm a silver fan, since it is the TRUE color of Porsche (and the official German racing color). I suggest you consider GT Silver, it is IMHO the best silver out there. And only the 40th Anniversary models came with it.
Silver is not the German racing colour, White is. The myth of silver being Germany's racing colour came from the time Mercedes stripped their cars down to bare metal and polished them. However they were actually bending the rules.
If you look at any of the colour pictures of the Porsche factory team cars (as opposed to the "works" teams like Gulf and the original Martini-Porsche team), their base colour is always white.
Another titbit is that action by Mercedes gave rise to the saying "body-in-white", which actually means bare-metal. If you see in the Porsche parts catalogue the saying "body-in-white" it means the part will be delivered in bare metal.
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Originally Posted by Adrian
Jorge,
Silver is not the German racing colour, White is. The myth of silver being Germany's racing colour came from the time Mercedes stripped their cars down to bare metal and polished them. However they were actually bending the rules.
If you look at any of the colour pictures of the Porsche factory team cars (as opposed to the "works" teams like Gulf and the original Martini-Porsche team), their base colour is always white.
Another titbit is that action by Mercedes gave rise to the saying "body-in-white", which actually means bare-metal. If you see in the Porsche parts catalogue the saying "body-in-white" it means the part will be delivered in bare metal.
Ciao,
Adrian.
Silver is not the German racing colour, White is. The myth of silver being Germany's racing colour came from the time Mercedes stripped their cars down to bare metal and polished them. However they were actually bending the rules.
If you look at any of the colour pictures of the Porsche factory team cars (as opposed to the "works" teams like Gulf and the original Martini-Porsche team), their base colour is always white.
Another titbit is that action by Mercedes gave rise to the saying "body-in-white", which actually means bare-metal. If you see in the Porsche parts catalogue the saying "body-in-white" it means the part will be delivered in bare metal.
Ciao,
Adrian.
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If I can find the right one, my next car will be Cobalt. If I can't I'll default to speed yellow. We need some shirts or something that says something along the lines of "Add some color to your porsche".
