How good is color Blood Orange/ Tangerine?

[blue72s]

Whilst blood orange/tangerine is not as popular as silver or ivory-white but just how good (or bad) is blood orange?

I have never seen the color in reality but in some photos they look frighteningly like premature tomatoes.. Do photos do the color justice?

[Tim Walsh]

Tangerine is a really nice color

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads2/31083026271.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads2/rr20021083027583.jpg

[blue72s]

The links you've posted is not tangerine; it's signal orange.

[82SC]

search for the orange color discussion

there are a few oranges

singal orange is a "pure" orange
my signal orange targa is very orange
where as screen name paul thomas has a slight more red and brighter
(Kevinp53 who painted my car says he got the exact factory formula)

blood orange definately has more of a RED undertone

tangerine has a brown-ish orange hue to it.

problem is on the computer one picture of a car's color will look different monitor to monitor

I'd like to see some other ORANGE Porsches!

this has a good collection of them

orange rocks (and eggplant, and viper green, and signal yellow, and bahama yellow, mexico blue)

[blue72s]

Originally posted by 82SC
blood orange definately has more of a RED undertone

tangerine has a brown-ish orange hue to it.

I thought both names were the one and the same?

[jshape]

Check out this link that shows almost all of the early Porsche colors.

http://www.early911s.com/gallery_cars.php?order=yr,

[Paul Thomas]

My car (the one in both of Tim's linked treads) IS signal orange. I have the Sikkens code around here somewhere, but it looks very different in varying light. Here are two good examples.

[blue72s]

Thanks for the link jshape. I think this one sums it right:

[tangerine911e]

Tangerine is a great color ! You can't go past it on an early car. It's a hard to photograph (usually comes out orange or red) - best to see one in the flesh, but I got to say the photo above captures it pretty well.

Ash

[jay72]

It is a hard color to photograph. Here is my "blood orange' '79 930.

Sloane Russeck

[Grady Clay]

Well,

The classics were the two 911 Trans Am racers in ’67 –’68.

Best,
Grady

[chuckw951]

My car is tangerine according to the COA, but I've had others tell me differently!

[Willem Fick]

You mean they made Porsches in other colours than blood orange too?

[Willem Fick]

I tend to agree with 82sc - blood orange has a slight red undertone. It's really a nice colour, as long as you don't mind standing out in a crowd!

Paint code for blood orange, according to the plate on my car is 2323G whereas tangerine is 6809 according to chuckw951's certificate.

Cheers!

Willem Fick