Smoking Rotors

It's a very cool color - looks like like a military green in some lights, gray in others, brown in others

Stephen Tinker

Wasn't slate grey McQueen's preferred colour for his Porsches? If it was, I would be surprised if it was metallic.....I thought it was a solid.
The picture of the GT3 above makes my Arctic silver look kind of dull in comparison !!

timisnthere

@ Stephen Tinker, Slate Gray 6601 (615) and Slate Gray 7015 (code unknown) are both solids. However, a color named "Slate Metallic" was on the PTS list of 2014 waiting for feastibility but was dissaproved for all ranges later on. SM closely resembles "Anthracite Brown" in pictures I found online but I have never seen it in person before so I might be wrong. Thanks for sharing your opinion here!

PTSGT3

Didn't want to make a new thread for this yet but was PTS available on 996 3s? Anyone have a database or info on stats and colors?

timisnthere

PTSGT3, seeing that PTS was availible for the 964 and 993 generation, I would assume that 996's can be PTS'd. But you're talking about a GT3 so here are my 2 cents - they only made a small batch of them, just like the PTS 997 2RS's. Maybe 30 - 40. This information is definitely inaccurate but just my thoughts.

405

I do recall seeing a PTS Minerva Blue/Natural Brown 996 GT3. I think there were a few other PTS examples as well...

EDIT: here is the Minerva car: https://rennlist.com/forums/996-gt2-...4-996-gt3.html

I wonder what it would be worth today... double?

PTSGT3

Thanks for the info, guys. I'm familiar with the 997s. I can find so little info on the 996s. I think we're talking about an incredibly small number of cars here.

Body In White

According to the stats I have, there were 9 Lapis Blue Metallic 996 GT3s sold into North America.

8 in 2004, 1 in 2005. 8 in the USA, 1 in Canada.

2004 VINs:
WP0AC29904S692487
WP0AC29904S692604 < -- Canada Vehicle
WP0AC29954S692629
WP0AC29964S692526
WP0AC29964S692607
WP0AC29964S692851
WP0AC29974S692261
WP0AC299X4S692612

2005 VIN:
WP0AC29905S692183

Body In White

This is the quantity of each color sold according to my records for North American GT3s in 2004 & 2005:

Arctic Silver Metallic 255
Atlas Grey Metallic 22
Basalt Black Metallic 32
Black 177
Carmon Red Metallic 2
Carrara White 112
Cobalt Blue Metallic 18
Dark Teal Metallic 1
Forest Green Metallic 1
Guards Red 106
Lapis Blue Metallic 9
Meridian Metallic 2
Metallic Paint to Sample 3
Midnight Blue Metallic 22
Orient Red Metallic 1
Polar Silver Metallic 16
Seal Grey Metallic 58
Slate Grey Metallic 23
Speed Yellow 158

I don't know what the PTS colors are, but the 3 VINs are:
WP0AC29924S692068
WP0AC29974S692776
WP0AC299X4S692352

All from 2004.

FWIW, Zanzibar Red was a 996 GT3 color but it looks like no one in NA order one.

Welty

Fortunate to own a 2004 Lapis Blue car. Per the mentioned VIN #s earlier. It has never seen the track....kidding.

CME

Since we are posting 'rarish" colors. My Cobalt Blue GT3. Have never seen another one in the flesh in the 14+ years I have had her.
Chet

RossP

People dont appreciate how rare some of these colors are on a 996 GT3. Beautiful example.

spiller