Wobbly Posted 14June, 2016 Report Share Posted 14June, 2016 Interested in some opinions. My car is in parts, currently sans front guards, bumpers and bonnet which will be replaced. Car was originally gold, but repainted white in the 80's. Engine is out and interior partially stripped, but engine bay ancillaries and under hood stuff still intact. Originally I was just going to put it back together after engine + trains rebuild (and rear trailing arm mount adapter, turbo trailing arms, brake upgrade, strut changes, etc etc), shake it down and then repaint in white again. Now im wondering if I should put it back to gold. Will need a lot more undercoating (which is currently also in white) plus stripping out the engine bay of the remaining ancillaries. Will no doubt add a fair bit of cost to the process. The body is not original (now a steel wide body and will replace fronts with either steel or glass) so not sure whether to go with original and spend the $$$ or stay with the white. Metallic gold wide body iroc/rs3.0 rep anyone?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew F Posted 14June, 2016 Report Share Posted 14June, 2016 My opinion. Lost of cars have been painted in more desirable, but still factory correct for the model colours. Especially cars from the 70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter M Posted 14June, 2016 Report Share Posted 14June, 2016 Wobbly,Since you are not restoring the car completely back to original having a non original colour won't matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted 14June, 2016 Report Share Posted 14June, 2016 Go with what you like the most Wobbly at the end of the day it,s your car and I say build what you want and enjoy it to it,s fullest .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clutch-monkey Posted 14June, 2016 Report Share Posted 14June, 2016 if it's not original with the guards etc you've already lost that fight with the anoraks regardless, so just paint it the easiest colour and get back into the driver's seat faster.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coastr Posted 14June, 2016 Report Share Posted 14June, 2016 if it's not original with the guards etc you've already lost that fight with the anoraks regardless, so just paint it the easiest colour and get back into the driver's seat faster..+1now, the other question is : what is your favourite 911 color, and should you be considering that right now? (Assuming it is not white?)Value will ill only be adversely affected if the paint is sloppy - ie, different colour under hood etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugh Posted 14June, 2016 Report Share Posted 14June, 2016 Was the original colour Champagne? Something cool about rebirthing the car in its original colour............especially being a colour that's not all that common. Gold with black wheels........yeow! Do it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobbly Posted 14June, 2016 Author Report Share Posted 14June, 2016 I do quite like the white, and only worked out that it was originally gold once I had the door cards off and could see some of the original gold in some of the recesses, and matched this against where some of the undercoat has come off the front inner wheel well which revealed some gold undercoating. The only 74 colour code for gold I can find is L97H, and a brief google search turned this up as an example. Kind of cool. Kind of odd as well. I'm still thinking of keeping it in white at the moment though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeM Posted 14June, 2016 Report Share Posted 14June, 2016 Normally I'd say go with whatever colour you want, especially white, as it hides a lot of body flaws, though there's not too many cars released in that colour gold. I agree with Hugh, and that car above looks the mutts doodahs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond911 Posted 15June, 2016 Report Share Posted 15June, 2016 Hi Wobbly,That nice looking gold in the photo above is a special order Gold Mica according to this thread:http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/388952-id-like-see-gold-metallic-911-pix.htmlL97H is listed as Gold Metallic. In the same thread above it looks like some other versions may be closer to Gold Metallic such as the 73S in that thread:I love the look of the Gold Metallic but as mentioned above the car is already non original so go with whatever you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugh Posted 15June, 2016 Report Share Posted 15June, 2016 ^^^ that colour looks amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINGY Posted 15June, 2016 Report Share Posted 15June, 2016 Any of those 2 colours above would look very unique on your car but if the funds aint goin there well that's the show stopper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobbly Posted 15June, 2016 Author Report Share Posted 15June, 2016 The gold does look nice and is fairly unique. Funds are a matter of how far down the slippery slope I go. It's already fairly steep. Just got the estimate back for the bottom end work underway and that was pretty eye watering. Hmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINGY Posted 15June, 2016 Report Share Posted 15June, 2016 The gold does look nice and is fairly unique. Funds are a matter of how far down the slippery slope I go. It's already fairly steep. Just got the estimate back for the bottom end work underway and that was pretty eye watering. Hmm. The engine is the most important bit anyway so it's understandable that's where the dough is going, just get it going and tidy it up, happy days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugh Posted 15June, 2016 Report Share Posted 15June, 2016 The engine is the most important bit anyway so it's understandable that's where the dough is going, just get it going and tidy it up, happy daysIf your going to go to the extent that @Wobbly is currently undertaking you'd be a fool to cut any corners. Do it once and do it right, much cheaper than doing a half baked job that you'll regret. I would also argue that the body is the most important part, mechanicals are easy and quantifiable comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINGY Posted 15June, 2016 Report Share Posted 15June, 2016 If your going to go to the extent that @Wobbly is currently undertaking you'd be a fool to cut any corners. Do it once and do it right, much cheaper than doing a half baked job that you'll regret. I would also argue that the body is the most important part, mechanicals are easy and quantifiable comparison. Hugh, to me it sounds like Wobbly is in 2 minds to go the whole hog or patch and drive. My comments were meant as in the engine is more important at the moment as you can drive a car with some flaky paint but you can't drive a car with a flogged out bottom end, so therefore throw the money at the engine and maybe patch up the body and drive, who cares if looks a bit sad for a while until you decide for sure what to do. Me, I'm going for gold for sure, it's better than white imho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeM Posted 15June, 2016 Report Share Posted 15June, 2016 The gold does look nice and is fairly unique. Funds are a matter of how far down the slippery slope I go. It's already fairly steep. Just got the estimate back for the bottom end work underway and that was pretty eye watering. Hmm. Be prepared, as a planned budget is soon doubled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P-Kay Posted 15June, 2016 Report Share Posted 15June, 2016 +1I can sure confirm that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugh Posted 15June, 2016 Report Share Posted 15June, 2016 Hugh, to me it sounds like Wobbly is in 2 minds to go the whole hog or patch and drive. My comments were meant as in the engine is more important at the moment as you can drive a car with some flaky paint but you can't drive a car with a flogged out bottom end, so therefore throw the money at the engine and maybe patch up the body and drive, who cares if looks a bit sad for a while until you decide for sure what to do. Me, I'm going for gold for sure, it's better than white imho. Sure, I get that......but.............its a huge amount of work to put a car back together (without paint) only to then pull it back apart to paint - now is the time to paint hence why I'm guessing Wobby is asking the question. Engine/mechanical's can and generally have to wait, much easier to re-address them at a later date - same cant be said for paint & body prep. When you've come this far it makes little sense to rush, money comes and goes, opportunities to build your dream Porsche are few and far between. P.S Plenty of 911's getting around with flogged out bottom ends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MFX Posted 15June, 2016 Report Share Posted 15June, 2016 I will be able to tell you my favorite colour in a couple of days Mine was originally gold as well, but I can confirm that is not what I am painting mine. I say build it like that picture you had of a Porsche in your head as a kid. Nothing better than making that dream car your own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
09ELF Posted 17June, 2016 Report Share Posted 17June, 2016 Do what you want unless its a concourse.Go with your heart. The very best builds don't conform.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobbly Posted 17June, 2016 Author Report Share Posted 17June, 2016 Definitely not concourse, more like hot rod. I like the white. I also like the Gold but not sure if it's something that would get tired after a while. I may have a plan though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugh Posted 17June, 2016 Report Share Posted 17June, 2016 Definitely not concourse, more like hot rod. I like the white. I also like the Gold but not sure if it's something that would get tired after a while. I may have a plan though...you thinking taco style and doing both! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coastr Posted 17June, 2016 Report Share Posted 17June, 2016 Yeah for me that sucker would be headed for some wide body guards, 17 inch Fuchs knockoffs and a fresh coat of guards red.but paint it whatever colour you like and think outside the white or gold box to see what you really want.its true you will forget the money in 5 years time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobbly Posted 18June, 2016 Author Report Share Posted 18June, 2016 Fortunately it's already wide bodied (currently half - need to source front wings yet) and I have a set of 17" whittam Fuchs replicas. I don't even have the bottom end back from machining yet and I'm already thinking about a stage 2, as I have a set of spare mahle cylinders now which could be bored to 2.8, but would be best mated to some higher clamping force valve springs and a wilder cam (Ge60/80) than currently planned (S or mod-S).So might put it back together and get the new panels sprayed to match (ish), which hopefully won't be too hard with white. Then decide on whether to keep or respray on phase 2 of the motor if it comes, with hopefully more insight as to how much I want to keep it white or not. I do like white, always have on porsche. But the Gold is growing on me, and you don't see many around... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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