svonkampen,
I agree with you assessment. On an early car, these early colors look great (mine's tangerine by the way).
What year is your car? Silver looks great on any 911. Maybe that's why you can get any year Porsche in that color. The neat thing about an aubergine car (or orange for that matter) is when you see it on the road, you have a pretty good idea what decade it comes from.