CAlexio

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PistolPete

GTAutoDesign, I saw the same car on the delivery ramp of Ray Catena today.

DSC_2519 by P, on Flickr

DSC_2520 by P, on Flickr

DSC_2521 by P, on Flickr

DSC_2523 by P, on Flickr

DSC_2524 by P, on Flickr

PistolPete

Oh crap GTAutoDesign, you posted my photo (see watermark). No wonder it looked so familiar! LOL

golfnutintib

gross

having money does not equal having taste

Z356

Before the 906, Porsche was making race-able street cars that were categorized as 'GT Class'.
So 550s, 718 RSK (RS60, RS61, W-RS) & 904 were all in GT class & sold to many customers,
who decided to have them painted in various colors when they ordered the car from Porsche.
See this period 904 at Silverstone in 1964:



But I grant you that quite a number of the race cars were originally painted 'silver' which
is the second (not the original) racing color associated with Germany. 'White' is Germany's
official & historic competition color.

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Interior colors varied a great deal too. Most original 904's I have seen had Dralon acrylic
fiber fabric on the seats in odd colors like in this almost 'aquamarine blue':



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The 906, 908, 910, etc were all dedicated race cars with almost no 'street' application.
They were categorized as 'Prototype' class and strictly considered a competition vehicle.
Very few were made compared to previous race-able street cars like the 550s, 718s & 904s.
Over 100 904s were made, but only 50 906s, 25 910s, etc. And to simplify matters & save
money, Porsche had all bodies done in 'white'!



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And the interiors were also done uniformly for the same reasons. In restored form,
they look like this:



Or this:



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Saludos,
Eduardo
Carmel

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Mark Dreyer

+981. That would be my first mod. Changing them out.

GTautoDesign

yeah but the bad part of it is, someone ordered it that way!!!

n4v4nod

My guess is that someone didn't realize that guards red and garnet red are two completely different reds?

sho-one

Hmm any thoughts on Nardo Grey if PTS becomes available again? I have an allocation, waiting for a build date. I think Nardo looks awesome.

jeanrabelais

Agreed, should have went with the carmine red. But if he has steel brakes then I believe that the air intakes will match the calipers? The photos are over exposed, hence the light bouncing everywhere even on the black surfaces, so my first reaction was that the red doesn't look so bad on the white body as I thought it would.

I went with the red intakes based on the color of the calipers and I added the red washers to balance it out in front, but I went rhodium because I thought white would be trying to coordinate too many colors. I took a chance to be sure but I'm going to hold my judgement until I see my car which is basically all grey/silver and red.

squid42

The 3D builder app does a bad job representing color accents, especially red ones. They look cool with the red brakes but when reality and real world light hit the accent parts...

Milehigh981

I've Seen it on an Audi rs7. Beyond the initial "what color is that?" It did nothing for me as it looked like military grey.
I like very bright colors though, so ymmv!

Z356

I do too. But unfortunately 'Nardo Gray' is not currently approved
for PTS by Porsche. It would first have to be ordered by a client &
then feasibility tested by PAG. That will take time.

Porsche does have several gray colors available on the approved list.
'Fashion Grey/Modegrau' is an 356 Pre-A color from the early
1950's which is quite popular as PTS today.

Saludos,
Eduardo
Carmel

PS I have presently ordered a 2016 Audi RS7 in 'Nardo Gray'. It is
the only solid/uni color offered by Audi on the RS7. It's not offered
on any other Audi as a standard color at the present time, so it's
rather uncommon to find in Audis too. Most importantly, it's costing
me $0 to order it. So rare & special color at no charge!

CAlexio

a glamour shot I found of the red LWB.. unreal beauty to my eyes.. wonder why they are missing the gt3 lwb's "pillow"?

CAlexio

just one extra reference point.. there is another review video on Dutch Autoweek with a silver spyder with the red interior. The car has the leather stitched steering column and it's red. (It also has the leather red sun visors but I think we can comfortably know those are red by now.) I've seen 3 pics online of red interior spyders at this point with leather steering columns and they have all been red. I can safely surmise at this point that despite what Porsche's internal configurator says, and what PCNA tells my SA... that the sun visors AND the steering column are red leather (pic attached.)









now, the only item remaining in question are the inner leather door sills... and whether those are red? I have yet to see anyone with the red interior who was crazy enough to spend money on those outside of myself...


Makes a potentially annoying reflection in the tach.