Factory color ? Post Pic

[GotaT]

I am considering painting my car the Factory Dark Irish Green color for a 71 model car. Anyone have there car in this color? I have found several pics of this Dark Irish Green color on different 911's and they all seem to be a different shade green. Anyone have this color on there car ,... Please Post pics.

Thanks
Mitch

PS... I sprayed some of this color (code 213) this weekend and it seems to be brighter than I have seen.... Make note on the posted pics of the dif. colors.



ARE BOTH OF THESE DARK IRISH GREEN....???? !!!!

[Rot 911]

Maybe pwd72s will weigh in here. I believe his '72 is Irish Green.

The color of primer underneath makes a difference.

[Hetmann]

[SandyI]

I'm no expert. But the top picture is definitely Irish Green.

(And by the way, Porsche Irish Green is much lighter than the Jaguar British Racing Green of the 1960's which you may be thinking of because you keep using the word "dark" in your question)

I don't think the second picture is Irish Green.

You might want to post this question on the Early 911S Registry site. You will quickly have an index of every green Porsche ever made between 1965 and 1973.

Originally posted by Hetmann

Nice car! Very aggressive stance

[GotaT]

The Color Code name is Dark Irish Green...

I have found these pics on the early911s registry and have emaile in reference to these pics but no response.

As for primer color.. I suspect the darker the color the darker the Green will look.

Joseph... do you have any photos of your car in normal Daylight that you could post?

[SandyI]

Originally posted by GotaT
The Color Code name is Dark Irish Green...

Interesting. Because the Peter Morgan book lists the color as Irish Green. The Porsche 911 Red Book lists the color as Irish Green. I've personally never heard anyone describe the color as Dark Irish Green until this post. But I've only owned my Leaf Green 911E for four years, so I guess I'm still learning. Would love to see your factory listing which has the color as "Dark Irish Green".

Thanks.

[GotaT]

Sandy.. You are right.. my mistake on color name.. it is Irish Green... However, I still am trying to figure out why such a Differenitation between all the cars w/ this color.

[SandyI]

Mitch -- I think the Irish Green color variation is due to a variety of things --
1.) We're all trading jpegs that are being viewed on monitors with different brightness and color mixtures.
2.) Irish Green is one of those colors that can appear slightly different in intensity depending on where and when the jpeg is shot.
3.) Then you've got paint fade. Is the paint original or a respray? When was it resprayed? What kind of paint was used at the time? Etc.

Do a search on the early 911S registry site. (There's this fellow in Oregon with the cleanest, most original Irish Green 911S on planet earth who regularly posts pictures of his car so we can all be jealous. )

[charleskieffner]

check out patrick motorsports web site click on gallery and view his green car. beautiful car and the problem???? my girlfriend wants it!!!!!!!

[GotaT]

hey Sandy... my car is not originally Irish Green.... I am respraying it w/ this color. I am just hoping that the color appears darker than some of the other "irish green" cars that I have seen.

After spraying my engine compartment it Doesn't seem as "deep" as the first targa I posted a pic of. however I really think it has to do w/ the overcast day the picture was taken of...

Anyone have Pics of Irish Green in Bright sunlight?

tHANKS SANDY AND OTHERS FOR THE POSTS!

[fryardds]

Here are some photos of my favorite early 911, it is an original paint Irish Green 2.2S. Enjoy.

[GotaT]

The First and Third pic you posted sure seem different ... I suppose only because of the lighting. I find that it looks much better in the first pic... but thats just my opinion... Seems much darker.... Thanks for the POSTS!

[jose luis]

The second photo you have posted is the one I have painted my car with , it has more "yellow" color than the first one so it does not look as darker , I remember the code from my car being : 6806 for a 1968, fortunately when I painted my car the Inner Sheet Metal Door Panels has still the original color of the Factory intact so I had a good color to match sample to work with. I propose the same to you : Find out the original color in your doors and starts with it.

JL Garcia
912, 1968
Toluca , Mexico.

Best Regards.

[fryardds]

All of the photos show the same car Irish Green 911, just in different conditions. Can you tell I really like that one!

[Hetmann]

Here's another shot of mine in brighter light. As you can see the color changes. At night it becomes a rich organic black.

[GotaT]

Thanks for the posts... What color primer did you spray the basecoat green color over?

[Hetmann]

Mine is over a standard gray primer.