Porsche 911 70ies Color Schemes
Porsche’s 70ies color schemes clearly are one of the great achievements of mankind.
If it were 1979, how would you order yours? Please answer in the comment section of this article.
You may also go to http://grandretro.com/groups/colours/forum/topic/show-us-your-911/ and show us how yours looks.
We’re quoting former Porsche-designer Robert Powell (@Rob):
“Tony Lapine was a great fan of Tartan. In fact he often wore a dark green Tartan pair of trousers and the development of that cloth was certainly ‘inspired’ by him. When I joined Porsche in 79 there was a small ‘Colour and trim’ department made up of two fascinating women.”
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Johannes Gerl said on February 6, 2018
Exterior Grand Prix Weiß, schwarzer Teppich, rot-blaue Karos.
Sabine Engert said on February 6, 2018
Exterior Kaschmirbeige, black carpet, black-brown Pascha seats (the second from above)
Alessandro Nardelli said on February 6, 2018
Though it’s not a Ferrari, I’d take it in red (indischrot) and with red-blue tartans and black carpets and leather seats.
Doro Dolgner said on February 6, 2018
Petrol blue metallic exterior, coffee brown leather with chocolate brown carpets for the interior.
Robert Powell said on February 6, 2018
Never really had a favourite combination….
But behind every cloth was a great deal of development. In colour and trim there where many rolls ( of cloth) of variations of a single Tartan… And each cloth had to survive simulated wear tests.. Fascinating stuff.
Rich McAllister said on February 6, 2018
Arrow blue with the third tartan! Carpets not sure …
Martin Wal said on February 6, 2018
Cool subject. Interesting to see fake leather on the menu – that’s sooo 1970s 🙂
How about Light Green Metallic exterior and grey (topmost) Velour. That would suit me just fine…
Martin Wal said on February 6, 2018
On second thought, that being a Prosche… I guess that even the “Leatherette” would have been better than on many other car bards of the day, right?
Johannes Gerl said on February 6, 2018
Thats’s very tasteful, Martin. I’ve seen a lindgrün car somewhere on the web recently and it looks absolutely amazing. Probably one of the most seventy-ish colours on that list. The leatherette in fact has good quality. Most of the cars of the days still run with the material originally fitted.
Josh Patterson said on February 8, 2018
I’d have to go with arrow blue over black leather as my first choice. I don’t see it on the color swatch but I’ve seen 1970 911s in Irish green over tan leather. (The olive green on the swatch that I thought I would like doesn’t look as good as I thought it would on the real car.) And I know a Porsche isn’t a Mercedes, but silver over red/black tartan would be my third choice. (Of course if I had the money, I could just get all three!)