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Quick Q: "Rare '78 only Bright Colors" - Is this a thing?
Pcar folks:
Hagerty has me evaluating my current Total Loss coverage. Their guide refers to adding a percentage for "...extremely rare bright 1978-only colors like Apple Green, Fern Green, Continental Orange and Arrow Blue." My car is Minerva Blue (love it!) so falls outside of these colors I believe, but I am curious - was this a thing for the 1978 line of SCs? Did a search but no joy - thanks for amusing me on this point.
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Check out www.rennbow.org. It’s a PCA color wiki. You can search by model and year. For 1978, it calls apple green a near unicorn color.
Edit: Wow, post 911 for me! ![]() Mark
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Great site Mark and congrats on your 911th post!
Looks to me like '79 has even more colors that I'd call rare? Colibri Green metallic for example.
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My 911 is black metallic, but that site lumps photos of black metallic from 1979 with photos of other "black metallic" cars from later years. In 1979 it was almost a titanium metallic, it doesn't look black at all. I think it's fairly rare. Mark
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The market is paying a premium for skittle colors.
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Check out www.rennbow.org. It’s a PCA color wiki. You can search by model and year. For 1978, it calls apple green a near unicorn color.
My original paint apple green 1976 912e, fairly positive it’s the only 912e finished in that color. I do know Glasurit no longer makes the pigment for the original formula. ![]() |
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I just got my 1979 Euro 930 back from a repaint in its original color light green metallic #275.
According to the site its a fairly rare "Bright Color", its quite stunning in person. ![]() |
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Continental Orange was not "1978 only". It was 76 (mine) thru 78 IIRC.
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one year only for the SC's...
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