1978 Porsche 930 Rare Color

[wgwollet]

Does anybody know this color

1978 Porsche 930. Paint code 291-9-3

[962porsche]

it's not rare just unpopular .
rare color are 99 colors not standered year colors .

[jsveb]

Polished Fuchs on that one, and it will look great.

962, did you ever get the message? I asked you about my car ( also a 78 930) it has a 99 color. I got confirmation from Porsche it was indeed delivered in Matte Schwartz back in 1978

Pretty cool!

Never heard about that before, you?

[wgwollet]

Thanks 962, but 291 never shows up in any of my books...so what color is it to get some paint?

[962porsche]

i get so inundated with people asking about the color of there cars it's not even funny .
today i got 13 emails asking about info on there cars color and the day is only half over .
i had to stop looking up info for people because it just takes up to much of my time .
maybe some day i will go thru all the color info i have from porsche AG and put it all in one big ass book to sell but not at this time .
many old color codes get dropped from the list as the systems get updated . this has to do with the cost to keep the list up to date .
they dropped many when they went from paper to microfiche then again when they went to floppy disc then again to hard disc .

there are also many other reasons why you may not see or find the color codes coming up on any non OE porsche color books . this could have to do with the paint CO's them selfs it cost a **** load of money for a paint CO to up date there colors when they change there paint systems .like for say solvent base to water base colors ther for if there is a color that no one buys they are not going to spend the time and money to match a dead color .
i have gone thru this many times on many postings .
rare colors are 99 , 999 or 9999 color codes only . if your car does not have a 99 code then it's a OE stock color for the year of the car and what is called a standard color even of the color was not a big seller it does not in any way make it rare it's just not popular . that is not to say it's not a nice color .

so what color is it code 291 that is all the info you need to get the color made for the car .
when i put the color number in my paint formula look up it comes right up so your jobber should find it also with out any trubble .

[wgwollet]

Thanks 962

I understand.

[962porsche]

the funny thing is that color 291 was on a 951 porsche we did a little over 2 years ago .
it was a 99 color code for that car .
this past winter the roof fell in on the guys garage when we had a big snow storm of 38" of snow . we never get that much snow here in CT.
the car is a total loss now .

[CalPersFatCat]

Originally Posted by wgwollet

Does anybody know this color
1978 Porsche 930. Paint code 291-9-3

It is one of my all time favorite 1977 911 Turbo colors, and I remember that it was called "Ice" something...so I googled "Porsche ice color" and this was one of the pictures that came up.

1977 Porsche 911 Turbo (930) - Sports and Race Cars.com

[wgwollet]

Thanks Fat Cat

I pickup the car today. As you can see the car sat a few years, I plan to get it original wheels.

[wgwollet]

Update, I got the CoA and saids 99 for paint code, or paint to sample.

But my code sticker is 291... I have never found 291 for Ice Green Metallic for any year?

STUMPED

[962porsche]

i have talked about this many time and the miss info with the coa's .
all they have for color codes are what is on a hard disc . so again if the color was not up dated from the paper or microfiche to the hard disc than in a coa it tells you it's a 99 color even when it's not . all it is they did not move that color code to the up dated format in this case from microfilm to disc .

i a word the coa's are a joke ! i have some for my poesches and two of them are wrong . in one it staes the car is a 6 speed but they never offered the 6 speed untill years later in another model .

the name is not ice green mat.
like i said before you have to get ahold of BASF or the disc from Basf and they have the color number , name and formula to mix the color you will need .

[tomdeg]

Fellow '78 owner,
That color combo looks awesome, (is that a white interior?). Let's see some more pix.

[wgwollet]

Hi Tomdeg

Yes, it's white leather, thank you, more pictures coming. What color combo is yours....

How many 1978 930 built?

Did you see Sloan Cars has a 1978 in what they call Ice Green Metallic with green interior...with only 782 miles...price unknown...

[tomdeg]

Mine is plain ole boring Black on Black, sunroof delete

For the US market, they imported 461, the lowest number of any year.
Mine is #443

Looking forward to some pix

[jsveb]

Just chiming in with another special wishes color, my 1978 930:

Originally Lesonal 704, matte Schwartz.





That green will look awesome with polished Fuchs.

[wgwollet]

Jsvbe

What number is yours.

Mine is 414 out of 461.

I never got around to clean mine, I love both cars, thanks.

[MrShades]

This is the best looking 930 turbo color i know of

I have seen a couple of turbos in this color being repainted both black and red and that is to bad

[wgwollet]

Door tag 291-9-3

The COA is "paint to sample" for exterior color.
The COA is "interior to sample" for interior color.....white seats, green carpet

I had some Ice Green Metallic paint mixed for touch up....but it's a couple shades lighter then mine. I did a electronic paint gage and my paint is original measuring 3.5 to 5.5 mm.

I am having Tony Garcia do new green carpet, but he has not found the correct color yet in Porsche inventory. So I have a car with exterior and interior colors I cannot find the match. I hear a laser color can be done...but need to check it out...

Any thoughts....Porscheman can you help me?

[wgwollet]

No jobber has found that color in their system

[wgwollet]

Porsche got back to me on the code 99 for my 1978 Turbo 930, it took awhile.

Turns out 291 color code is for a special color from GMC for a 1978 Buick. The owner ordered it from a GMC PPG color chart called Medium Green Poly, so I would say it's one of one in this color.

It's code #45 on the GMC color chart attached.