Does anyone know how many 1968 911's were painted Bahama Yellow?

[Kelly Telfer]

I know of at least one- mine! I get asked often "How many 1968 911's were originally painted Bahama Yellow from the factory?". Are there factory records, or has anyone figured this out? My '68 911 has a Kardex Date of May 30, 1968. Original paint and interior. Love this car! Thank you very much!

[Xavier PJB]

One more, mine. 1968L

[Rennman]

The only way to have a number would be to go kardex by kardex which you would have to have access to and then the time to count each color, a big undertaking.

[Scott A]

there is a group member named davep, he seems to have answers for things like this...find him and write him. scott

[911T1971]

Porsche gave very few infos on the percentage of color, but there is one Christophorus article which gave a pretty interesting hint. Published in Oct 1970, it nevertheless talks on the color order statistics from 1960 to 1964 and then for 1970. Their statistics show that about 20./. choose a Special Color (extra costs) while about 80 ./. a Standard Color.
For 1968, Bahama Yellow was one of 9 Standard Color. Those Standard Colors usually were spread into 4-14./. for each shade related to overall production numbers, according to the article, bright colors still on top of percentage order in 1969/1970.

If we take the overall 1968 production number of the model, a US 1968 911 Coupe „normale“, for example, it was produced at 473 cars.
Bahama Yellow ordered cars therefore could be roughly estimated at 25-50 cars for that single model.

[beh911]

I think there was another Christophorus article in 66/67 that discussed the based colors and percentages, of which Bahama Yellow should be called out (can't find article right now.
Karim's extrapolation above though is the right way to think about your color's production.

Edit: found the Oct 67 article I referenced, with your Bahama data:
http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...mp-Flop-colors

[Kelly Telfer]

Very cool!!! Thanks everybody for your input.