Keer Kolloft

I'm thinking of changing the colour of my Carrera GT but can't decide! ;(

My interior is Ascot so whilst I'm leaning towards yellow of some kind, I'm mindful that it might look like a banoffee pie

They look great in black but one of my best friends has one in black so I can always enjoy black looking at his. Mine's GT silver currently.

So, I'm thinking pearl yellow (giallo triplo strato), pearl yellow matte (Giallo Midas matte looks great on my gallardo but is the angular look better for matte?), pearl white (fuji), pearl white matte (fuji opaco).

I think reds look great on this car too, but I don't have the ***** (or don't like it enough) to go with red. I also think mattes might be a fad that might look crap later on.

I wish I had 4 of them and this problem would disappear!

I've had photoshops done which can be seen here:

http://postimg.org/gallery/a36u5xdw/

http://postimg.org/gallery/6d1owjes/

thoughts gladly received.

gt2r

In my opinion on this car you shouldn't change the color. I believe it will devalue the car once you sell it. To get a really good paint job it will be very expensive and changing the interior would probably be even a worse devaluation and also extremely costly. If you decide to keep it forever--which everyone says they will but never do--then it would be fine. Once you sell it people buying it want originality on these cars in my opinion.

LexVan

Don't paint the car wrap it.

GT9111

+1

Jamie140

Wrap in gulf, riviera or white.

wtdoom

Dont agree about not respraying the car .
CGT is like a meccanno kit , all the body panels just unbolt . Only screen surround doesnt . Get Porsche to do it and it even gets a warranty and its easy ( and cheaper than you think due to the ease of preparation ) to put back if you change your mind .

LuckyP

I'd love to see a deep silver like the new liquid metal silver from 918 on
the car. The Ascot might work really well giving a trad feel to the
interior with hyper modern deep silver exterior.

The finish on M5 wheels I'm thinking about - almost mercurial finish. Might
help list the quite (dare I say it) plain exterior lines and the convex
doors would 'pop' out from their recessed setting!!

Hmmmmmmm.

Might have to have the mat anthracite wheel colour from the 991 to offset
the body colour. Std silver would be too close to body colour. Just a thought?

Keer Kolloft

Thanks all for the thoughts.

It would be Porsche Reading doing the work and as wtdoom says the work is relatively easy to do.

For £8k I'd just respray it back to whatever the market preferred (or back to silver). A good wrap would cost 25.-4k anyway and they'd probably knife the crap out of the bodywork anyway.

It's between giallo triplo and bianco fuji I think. So far I'm leaning towards bianco fuji only because it looks slightly silverish at some angles. Plus it doesn't look as in your face as yellow. But that changes daily!

Luckyp I think liquid silver looks amazing but I don't want another silver (despite liking bianco fuji for being somewhat silverish!). Agree with you also that the CGT is quite a plain looking car. Helps it age well, but it isn't a wow look which is why it's difficult to decide on a colour. Black still the best imo.

A lot more difficult decision than I ever imagined. Resolved if I could buy 3 of them.

wtdoom

Do it , Mr Keywood and Manning are the best and will make your car so very very beautiful .

DxbPlumber

White is always nice.. and rare.

I would go for one of the classic porsche blues, not too many of those around.

Check out this old thread on Teamspeed:

http://teamspeed.com/forums/porsches...d-porsche.html

I like Pacific Blue, think It'll look good on a cgt

XR4Tim

The problem is that the market tends to prefer cars that haven't been resprayed.

LexVan

Yeah, I've got to believe that a re-paint on a Carrera GT would just hammer the resale price.

pezza

Porsche driving experience centre silverstone had a liquid metal silver CGT recently, it was at the 918 demo day in the summer.

CGT

A yellow one w/ the ascot interior, 500 mi., sold for $452K 6 mos ago. I wouldn't have it. Way too busy / overdone / ungapatshke (means badly over done). Cort Wagner sez it's so rare that it will keep it's value.

I know ur sick of the silver but I think that is the one exterior color it works w/. Maybe liquid silver or some grey blend ?!! I hate white in this car. Probable negative resale factor.

I have red one !! Like the black/black's and the grey is VERY nice.
Vis .. save the $ for a 918??

tcsracing1

wrap it for god sakes.

If you really want to paint it, ship to germany and have porsche respray it. It will be the only chance of not messing up the history of the vehicle.