Has Gulf Blue changed?

[GaryR]

This high-priced 912 looks like a Minerva blue repaint, or is it me? https://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-cars-sale/1149635-original-gulf-blue-66-912-a.html

[blucille]

6603, usually spelled Golf blue here in the states, is a very different hue than the gulf blue racing livery we are used to, as seen on later cars.

https://forums.pelicanparts.com/4310151-post31.html




that being said, that ad sure likes like gemini blue, at least it shows as a metallic variant, nothing like the Golf or gulf blue that I'm familiar with

[dwelle]

yes, that car isn't gulf blue, which a powder or baby blue. i don't think gulf blue was available in '66.

i didn't look it up, but i assumed that car was golf blue...

[Matt Monson]

Yeah, that car isn’t original color.

[911mhutch]

Gulf Blue is Gulf Blue, sort of an iconic hue...hard if not impossible miscall... When I saw the posting I first thought the poster was not knowledgable and got the color of the car all wrong..but that is such a big miss I then thought that the poster must have meant that Gulf Blue was the original color and the car has been repainted..... I wasn't aware what specific years Gulf Blue was/was not offered...

[1979-930]

Looking at my book. It’s either pastel blue or metallic blue. Which were special order colors for 66. Going off the paint squares my guess is metallic blue.
Gulf blue was a standard color.




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[techweenie]

There's an "early" Gulf Blue and a later Gulf Blue. Different colors.

Go by paint codes, not the name.

[ficke]

Gulf Blue was a dark Blue until John Horseman, technical director of FAV and then of JWE asked Grady Davis (Gulf oil), if he could have the cars a lighter blue so they were easier to see and a blue he liked personally more. I think this was about 1967. This is the light blue that everyone now thinks of as "Gulf Blue"
John Horseman is most known for cutting the back of the 917 long tail off and creating the 917K and a the 917 a winning car.

[ard]

Originally Posted by 1979-930

Looking at my book. It’s either pastel blue or metallic blue. Which were special order colors for 66. Going off the paint squares my guess is metallic blue.
Gulf blue was a standard color.




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What book is that an excerpt from? I don't think I've seen that one.

Thanks

[Soterik]

My car in the 2nd post. Here's another shot of it in my new garage under fluorescent lighting. Looks different in different lighting obviously... the car is about half original paint. I always think of it as "golf" blue as that's what it is in the old price lists that I have from my dad (he was an independent importer at that time).

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[1979-930]

Originally Posted by ard

What book is that an excerpt from? I don't think I've seen that one.

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Brian Long. It was a Christmas Gift several years ago. It’s supposed to be very accurate on the history and changes throughout the years. I’ll have to take their word for it. LOL




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