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Work in Progress

I drove it into the container in Southampton August 21, arrives ETA Calgary Monday Sept 17 !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Not an air cooled 911, but a Guards Red rear engine Porsche nonetheless.
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Why have only ONE when you can have TWO? ;)
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...and, yes, these cars love the track. Four track days without missing a beat
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my happy cab..............WACHENROT.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1189950098.jpg

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My original Indischrot late-'83 SC with matching painted Fuchs

BTW, "Guards Red" and "Indian Red" are indeed synonomous, since the color was introduced starting in 1973. For example, the factory sticker in my front luggage area states "Indischrot" whereas my factory paint brochure for '83 (printed for the North American market) states "Guards Red". The exact formula for the paint color may have changed over the years--I don't know for sure one way or the other. But the names "Guards Red" and "Indian Red" are totally synonomous as a standard factory red color beginning in 1973 (and continuing at least through 1989).

Furthermore, I have never seen a Porsche paint code termed officially in German as "wachenrot". Glasurit doesn't list it for any Porsche made during the entire history of the company. I'm afraid that all of the previous posts referring to their paint as "wachenrot" are in fact referring to "indischrot", a Porsche factory color starting in 1973, which is sometimes translated into English as either "India Red" or "Guards Red". The former may be common in British English, the latter more so in American English.

Indian Guards Red: The original

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Ours is the most imperious of all Porsche colors!

Here is mine 1975 Hardtop Slantnose Targa
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Just cant get enough of red !! Doug from ottawahttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1266128068.jpg