1978 911SC Paint Code Confusion

[snwbrdr201]

I purchased my 1978 911SC in March of this year. The previous owners had the car poorly re-sprayed before the sale because they thought it would increase the value. It's now a metallic green a very close shade to the original color (door jambs, under engine lid, under frunk, under carpet, wheel wells were all unpainted). On the driver-side paint code plaque, it lists paint code "282-9-2", but I'm not able to find any information about this code. Also, when I've researched the available paint codes for 1978, none seem to match the original color of the car. The original color seems to most closely match non-metallic Porsche Irish Green, which wasn't available in '78. I'd love to have a quality, bare-metal re-spray done in the original color some day, but I can't seem to pin down exactly what that color is. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

- Chris

[pu911]

282 is a paint to sample color code, very tough to figure out original color w/o taking car apart and finding some original paint.
Phil

[962porsche]

the 282 is the OE paint code for the car and yes it's a standard green used/offered for the year of the car one year only for your code then the code was changed later but not the color as the color it's self is still the same green .
it's not a 99 999 or 9999 color on your car . I ran into this same code back in the late 1980's when we were doing a resto on the same color coded and year 911 .
as your not painting the car and just wondering about the code I'm not going to spend a hour or two looking at up at this time .
a coa may give you the new color info of the cars code ?

[pu911]

So I'm curious since code 282 does not show up in any of the the reference books but 5 other greens do, do you know name of the color, it's looks similar to oak green metallic #265. I'm no paint expert but I do own a PTS Porsche as listed on COA and it's been very difficult to learn very much about the original color which unfortunately was repainted a different color.

Thanks,

Phil

[962porsche]

I have it in the books from when I was one of the dept heads of coating at Porsche AG .
the code was superseded . this is some thing Porsche tends to do often with code number .
some years ago I used to look up things like this for people all the time but when I was getting 15 to 20 people emailing me every day . I stopped looking up things like this .
if the code was a sample code it would be 99 ,999 or 9999 depending on the car model and year .

[pu911]

I am going to extend my apologies to OP for crashing this thread but hopefully we all learn something
The paint tag lists (707) and COA PTS metallic (99)- are you saying if this was a true PTS color the paint tag would have a 99 as well.