For those that hate Guards Red...
 

Inspired by the "What colors would you pay a premium for?" thread and those that HATE Guards Red. Well, maybe not really HATE, but those that like Carreras in other colors besides the ubiquitous GR.

If you had a bone stock GR Carrera and were unconcerned with resale value, just having the color you want, what would you choose?

For reference, here's the 1984 color palette. (Does anyone have links for 85-89?)
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And circling back to the original assumption regarding resale value, what sort of price hit do you think your color choice would absorb if you had to sell your car?

Hot pink.

Of those - glacier blue.
No price hit, may take longer to sell.

Moosgrün...cuz it's fun to say ..and spell...almost as much as Surströmming

For years I said I would not own a Guards Red Porsche. Period. End of story. Then a friend of mine offered me his Guards Red original owner 1991 911 turbo. I liked that car, and reluctantly bought it (reluctantly ~ because it was red). But I drove it, luved on it, and won my class at Porsche Parade with it. All the while I really warmed up to it. Actually at some point I fell for it hard. I sold that lovely car & then I bought a 993 coupe - in (you guessed it) Guards Red. I adored that gem too but a business effort pushed me to sell it before I was done with it. What happened after that? Well once the business effort blossomed I bought a GT3 in (make a guess) Guards Red! And in current news I am building another car & its slated to be painted ~ Guards Red.

So for all you haters, try it. It is really good once you get over the mental block.

I like guards red.
Especially on earlier cars with bright trim.
But I like the browns too.

After 10 years of driving a red Porsche I said enough is enough, it went into the paint shop this month, coming out silver. It's my car and I hate red Porsches!!!!


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Hating a Guards Red Porsche is like hating a Rosso Corsa Ferrari.

I'm sad to learn that petrol blue wasn't a factory color in 1984.

A great choice, and if I were to play this game in real life it would be hard to go any farther down the color chart than that one. Unfortunately, it wasn't a choice in 1985 so I can't choose it. :o

I found a color reference for all years. 1985 Color Codes - Porsche Paint Cross-Reference

If I'm choosing my favorite 1985 color, I'm going with Gelb, Iris Blue, Sapphire Blue, or Meteor.


This is solid thinking. But is Moosgrün really more fun to say than Gletscherblau?


No hating. I'm in the same boat.


A bold move!


"Hate" might have been a bit tongue in cheek.


I'm sad for you!

While hate is a strong word I do think there is a GR discount.....

Ohhh Silver. Way to think out of the box Adam.
It will blend in nicely with every Honda, Toyota, BMW, overall "Meh" car out there now.

I like cool colors as much as the next guy but there are attributes to Porsche's that are way more important than color. I always thought there was a market premium for Guard's Red but pasta man is correct they sell at a discount. I did own an amazing Rose Red 72 S coupe - I have to admit I could not get over that color on that car and I sold it, big mistake!

Phil

I totally agree. Like many, I entered the Carrera search with an intent to buy "another color." I was really working on purchasing a sweet Venetian Blue G50 Carrera, but the seller got cold feet. I ended up buying the "best car available", a REALLY sound and sorted GR Carrera with a 3.4 conversion and a 915, and have enjoyed it immensely. No regrets on the GR or the 915 (another overblown issue in my limited experience.)

^^^

:D

I wondered if Adam was joking about silver - funny either way (even if the comedy was unintended)! :D

Unless you wear skinny jeans, ride a fixie, and listen to vinyl. Then you are willing to pay 20% more.

Nope, not joking, and if silver was good enough for the race track, it's good enough for me.


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Yeah right.
Not too many Meh 911's out there. Some people don't need to wave a flag to get noticed, or even want to be.
Sometimes close-mindedness runs rampant within PPM.

Right on Adam. Silver is my favorite color for Porsches - and almost any other car - or motorcycle for that matter. My Audi TT is silver, my two Moto Guzzis are silver, my SUV is silver. And my 911 is going back to silver from red as well. Originally silver in 1975.

Silver is the German racing color,
Red is the Italian
Green is British, etc.
Silver is right on a Porsche.

...85-89 is a tough era to select colors from. Those years are not the best colors....mostly metallics.

I'd rather go back to 74 (still g-body) and select from the entire 74-89 pallet. Then you can select from all those cool '70's colors. All the IROC colors were cool.....

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Ohh ya got me. Me and my small di*k and close minded ways.
I need to go drive my Guards Red Porsche and tell my self I'm cool.

It's a joke just to bust Adam's b*lls.
But I see that the guy with two Silver cars took immediate offence.

:D

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^^^ The Red and White cars are in the front where they belong. Ha. :p

I missed the sarcasm. The internet is funny that way.
Back peddling is hard to spot as well.

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I'd go Chiffon White

Am always amused when I read about how many GR 911s there are out there...but when at gatherings or events, the Reds are always out numbered by black/silver/white (or very close variants thereof).

Just the $.02 of a guy who owns an originally Cashmere Beige SC...which was unfortunately and narrow-sightedly (is that even a term?) resprayed GR in the early 90s...poorly at that.

I mean really, the red is bad. Forgiving for detailing and looking pretty, but ostentatious to the moon...

For those that hate Guards Red...
 

See on exotic cars there is no better color than red period.

I say period because in the 80s gaurds red was of its period. No more period correct color of the 1980s than gaurds red.

When I say exotic I mean the supercars of the era F40,288 GTO,testarossa,countach,959,930

These were all look at me cars of 80s.

I feel only certain cars should be able to be painted red..

Only cars of exceptional performance and exclusivity.

Let’s face it not all cars can pull off red. The cars that can REALLY can pull it off. REALLY pull it off. They also do it with exceptional WOW factor.

Besides the fact the red is QUITE a rare color on sport cars since the mid 90s..

Don’t see red on newer sport cars or supercars period today.

Yes it’s a “LOOK AT ME” color but I quite like the extra attention it gets.

Simply put. If it’s a supercar legit it should be RED or a loud color.. Save the browns,blues,silvers,golds,greens, for sports cars with maybe more moderate performance levels..

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I feel like only certain cars should be able to be painted red..When I say exotic I mean the supercars of the era F40,288 GTO,testarossa,countach,959,930
Only cars of exceptional performance and exclusivity.

^^^^^^^^^^
I have to agree with some of this previous post.
I was not a big fan of red till I drove this 84 Kremer 935. Since then Gaurds red grew on me.

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Hey, I do all those things and I HATE red cars! :p

My first Porsche was a red 2007 Cayman S. The car was fine, but I couldn't deal with the feeling that I looked like a douchebag in that car. Too flashy. Maybe if I had a pinkie ring, I coulda pulled it off...

Blue, grey (my 930 is anthracite), green, all good. God help me, I even like silver. Just not red.

Back in the day I loved guards red with black trim when I spotted the first 944. It looked like a race car for the street with those boxed flares and deep wheels


Then later it was everywhere and I hated guards red

Then I painted my bike that color
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ihad an 81 Targa in Rosewood ( brown with golf flecks) loved the color and the pasha seats. when
i bought mt 78 next, I bought it because of the slick top, and put up with the guards red which I have since come to love.A 911 in any color is fine for me.
my son bought an orange boxster s limited edition, and he is very happy with the color.

Manual transmission? Sill have it’s phone dials?


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I feel so out of touch with this thread.. I love Guards Red, and factored in that into the cost of buying one..

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Ya', each to their color-blind and no taste having own, but it is really amusing to see some guys(?) on a sports car forum talk about how red is bad and shart brown, stained undies chiffon, pool bottom turquoise, etc. are good. :)

If only 3% of 911's were Guards Red those same people would be saying it's one of their favorite colors. :)

We all see color and its relation to shape slightly differently I think, which is Great!
I'm married to a cool woman who's job it is to 'color forecast' for a big paint company here (Dulux), so we are always debating this sort of stuff.

For me personally, different colors suit different vehicles, so to say simply that you like 'red' or dislike white cars is not enough. You know intuitively when you see it, whether it works or not.

However, there is a subset here and that is the racing colors. Yes, we know German cars started out white, but when they shaved those few precious pounds by removing paint altogether-thus creating 'silver', there can be no more virtuous shade ever applied to a Porsche. Therefore, I'm with Adam on this. End of story. The science is settled.

I have 2 red bikes. A 1989 Specialized Rockhopper Comp and a 1998 Specialized Allez A1. I like Specialized red. Just no fixies.