Top Five Rarest 3.2 Carrera Colors?

[73ess]

Anyone know what the top five rarest colors were for the '87 to '89 Carrera?
I've searched on the web and can't find any sites posting number of cars produced by color.

[ZAMIRZ]

Well there's paint-to-sample, special order and standard colors. So, good luck...

[73ess]

Yes, forgot about the paint to sample colors. How about the rarest of the Special Order colors?

[JohnJL]

Baby poo green.



Doggie poo brown



nasty orange



bloody tassie




blue tongue



I'm fairly sure those were pretty rare. ;-)

[javadog]

The information you seek doesn't exist. Sorry.

JR

[s5uewf]

invisible was really rare. It is almost impossible to spot one nowadays.

[Canada Kev]

John: Maybe it's an Aussie thing, but why is the baby poo in a bowl? And that Tasmanian Devil seems to be packing quite the set. Friendly looking little guy, too...

[jimbauman]

I think any color other than red, white, black, or blue would be in the minority... Here's an '88 color chart:



The resolution is as good as I can get it.... I stole it from EBAY.... The brown color near the bottom left is a pretty good match to JohnJL's soup... :-O

JB

[Cattler]

This thread took a nasty turn.

My Cassis Red Metallic (L80D) was only available as a non-special order color in 1987.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by Cattler

This thread took a nasty turn.

Sometimes that happens. Who knows why?

Sadly, Porsche doesn't publish how many cars they built with specific options, or colors, etc. in each year. The only data I have seen along those lines has been for the Carrera RS in 1973 and I think the author of the "bible" for those cars actually went to the Porsche factory and got permission to dig through their records and compile the data on his own.

Anything we come up with will just be a wild-ass guess.

JR

[JohnJL]

Originally Posted by Cattler

This thread took a nasty turn.

My Cassis Red Metallic (L80D) was only available as a non-special order color in 1987.

Didnt mean for it to be nasty, just some fun and a free bump to the top.

[G50targa]

Originally Posted by 73ess

Anyone know what the top five rarest colors were for the '87 to '89 Carrera?
I've searched on the web and can't find any sites posting number of cars produced by color.

From seeing what people have on this forum, prussian blue is pretty rare, IMO.
Also, there was a light grey metallic for 1987 (?) that I think is a beautiful color and pretty rare.

[s5uewf]

Yeh, just having some fun.

Diamond Blue Metallic is relatively rare.

[juan ruiz]

I think Venetian Blue is an uncommon color ?

[Canada Kev]

Here is a site that shows the Dupont colour book pages for those and other years:

http://pc.dupont.com/hcl/servlet/com.dpc.hcl.search.HclSearchServlet?Operation=102&carRegion=2&carType=Porsche