Signal yellow with light yellow undercoat

[Mark Wilson]

Following on the heels of this thread:

http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...low#post172778


I thought as a data point, I'd post some pictures of this light yellow undercoat/primer/base under a signal yellow top coat. The car is a very early production 73 S Targa with one respray over the factory paint.

Mark

[endo911rs]

I found the same primer under my original signal yellow paint.

[Jim Garfield]

This is very interesting. The previous owner of my car painted it signal red, but it just isn't quite as warm toned as the 356 and early 911s are. The orange paint under the final coat on those cars is no doubt the reason. Seems as though the signal colors were hard to paint, but the additional color under the topcoat really makes it pop.

[steven0401]

Other issue is lead in the pigments. I had Jim Newton spray out samples of signal yellow with and without lead. The lead pigmented was much more vivid.

[Scott Clarke]

The light yellow is the same I found under the sound deadening mats on the interior of my Burgundy Karmann build '70E.

[Jim Garfield]

Steven, did Schmidt put orange under the paint on the 3.8 do you know? It seems to be very close to the early tone.