Name this color

[S2GART]

I am trying to identify the color of my SC. The label that I am told that should be under the trunk lid, is not there. There is a small metal tag on the passenger side of the trunk that in English says"synthetic varnish". I assume this is their way of meaning paint. The number is 817-9-2. My local dealer couldn't make heads or tails of it. It was determined that it isn't a standard factory color, but it is a factory paint job. I am attaching 2 pics. of the car. When the sun goes in, the car appears to be dark red/maroon. When the sun hits it, it almost looks like Gaurds Red. It is not a metallic paint, unless it's super fine and I can't tell. Any opinions would be appreciated. The dealer said it could of been a "paint to sample" color, in which case there is no chance of getting touch up paint for it.

[Noah930]

If it's paint to sample, I'm no help. But for 1983, here were the standard (reddish) colors:
Guards Red (027)
Ruby Red Metallic (810)
Kiln Red Metallic (811)

Regardless of what it's called, it's a very pretty color.

[livi]

Stunningly beautiful color !

And I like the large Rhododendron bushes too. What sort is it ?

[S2GART]

Maybe when they stamped the paint code they made a "typo". I looked more closely at the pain today with the sun hitting it and I think I noticed a super fine metallic in the paint. Quite possibly it is Ruby or Kiln Red.
Marcus, as for the bushes, I haven't a clue. They came with the house

[imcarthur]

It looks like Ruby Red in the 1st photo. The lighting in the bottom makes it look like kiln but I'd still vote ruby. Really nice color.

Ian

[S2GART]

Markus, sorry I mispelled your name, anyways here is picture when the bushes were in bloom.

[randywebb]

a great mountain plant... should be some in the Appalachians near you.

[rattlsnak]

defintely NOT guards red

[azasadny]

Beautiful color!

[livi]

Beautiful ! I could probably name three out of four sorts for you. But I guess it wouldn´t mean anything to you..

Ruby red ....hmm. Porsche have plausibly used the color names in different models over the years. I have seen plenty pics of for example the 964 RS in "Ruby red" and that color was much different - more of pastel like (rather kinky actually).

[Plecostomus]

That color reminds me of when I used to have genetics course in college. In the lab part of the course we had to cross-breed fruit flies, Drosophila Melanogaster. Most of the flies had eyes the color of "Cinnabar", which strongly resembles the color of your car.

[ausgezeichnet]

Here is my Ruby Red. A s you can see the shade of Red tends more towards brown than guards red

[kilodawg]

Well here's my '84 Kiln Red. Looks a lot like your second photo but nothing like the first.


I know from my own photos that Kiln looks different depending on the light but it's never looked like your first picture.

[Noah930]

Yowsa! That Carrera script looks great on your Kiln Red.

[kilodawg]

Thanks,

I struggled with that for a while when I refinished the wheels

The original color was platinum which matched the interior (grey beige). At the time Platinum to match the interior kind of reminded me of this guy I used to work with who matched the color of his shirt to the socks he wore. I could never get over that...

I though about going with black but that just seemed to look too dark so I finally decided to try something different. If I could get a stripe in Platinum I might eventually try that but I'm not sure if anyone makes them in that color.

[jeff1hughes]

you may not be able to order touch up, but if you remove your fuel filler door and take it in to a good auto paint shop (paint seller, not bump shop), they can mix whatevewr quantitiy you want. I've even heard of them just mixing touch up bottles.

[kilodawg]

But why take off the fuel filler door? Just drive it over and have they them do it?

[S2GART]

I went to one local body shop that told me when in cases like this they remove a piece of the car to send it out to their paint supplier to get a batch made up. They suggested the same thing with regards to removing the fuel door. I think the easier thing to do would be to take of the headlight bezel and have them do a color sampling off that. I am leaning more towards calling it Ruby Red, because like Rubies, with little light they are a dark red (almost like blood red), but when light hits them they obviously get brighter.

[jeff1hughes]

i don't think the headlight bezel has a large enough flat surface to get a good read with the spectrometer. Some places may have a portable unit that can be taken to the car, other's are bench set ups.

[al lkosmal]

It looks like Peru Red to me. There was a recent thread showing several examples of cars in that color. Great color, that was discontinued in the late 70's, if i remember correctly. Do a forum search and you will find.