Color Change. Am I Cookoo for Cocoa Puffs ?

[maverick]

So I have a 67S coupe which I will be painting next week. Car was originally adorned in the exciting color of light ivory.
So I do not have the original engine so I feel I have the right to change the color.
So I am really leaning on painting it a non-period color. 72-74 to be exact. Is that a no-no ?
Should I just stick with 67 colors?
Thoughts from the peanut gallery

[Scott A]

Can you share your list of favored colors?

I think the cars in ivory are quite beautiful.
As I walked around Monterey and Carmel by the Sea, during concurs week, the car I desired the most was a simple ivory 911, sitting just outside the show cars, worth millions.

[steve shea]

Yeah go with chartreuse or fraise that'll get your attention. Or maybe a nice sepia.

[LiveFromNY]

In my world, once it's no longer matching numbers, anything is fair game. Wait until I'm ready to paint 301331.

[maverick]

1. Royal purple
2. Bali blue
3. Gulf orange
4.Oak Green
5.Albert blue

[stout]

1. Royal purple
2. Bali blue
3. Gulf orange
4.Oak Green
5.Albert blue

If Light Ivory doesn't do it for you, and you have a chance to do a color change the right way…

I guess I tend toward people should do with their cars as they wish, and what will make them happy. I wouldn't be able to bring myself to color-change a highly original and/or presentable car. But once it's non-original, it's a big tent—and tasteful color changes fall under it for me.

Looking at your list, my only thought would be to go backwards rather than forwards. The longer I've looked at earlier Porsches, the more I find that period or earlier than period colors look right to these eyes where later colors rarely do—because period or earlier Porsche colors could have been ordered when a 1967 S was new. That's just this peanut's take, but there's a stunning SWB hot rod in 356 orange out there (well known to R Gruppe and ESR adherents), and I think about Bali and Aga too. Polo is one of Porsche's all-time great reds, and never gets old on a SWB 911S. Ditto for Slate Gray and Irish Green. Purples and metallics other than silver or gray would give me pause on a 67S, but this is your car. Enjoy it!

[Unobtanium-inc]

My rule is my car, my choice. I had my 356 for over 10 years and always hated the color, Ruby Red. So when I painted it I did it in silver. When I'm dead my relatives can debate if I de-valued the car.
It's also got a later motor and a very strange interior.

---Adam

[Cruisingnkali]

Personally, I appreciate this line of thinking.

But you should do what makes you happy. Enjoy!

If Light Ivory doesn't do it for you, and you have a chance to do a color change the right way…

I guess I tend toward people should do with their cars as they wish, and what will make them happy. I wouldn't be able to bring myself to color-change a highly original and/or presentable car. But once it's non-original, it's a big tent—and tasteful color changes fall under it for me.

Looking at your list, my only thought would be to go backwards rather than forwards. The longer I've looked at earlier Porsches, the more I find that period or earlier than period colors look right to these eyes where later colors rarely do—because period or earlier Porsche colors could have been ordered when a 1967 S was new. That's just this peanut's take, but there's a stunning SWB hot rod in 356 orange out there (well known to R Gruppe and ESR adherents), and I think about Bali and Aga too. Polo is one of Porsche's all-time great reds, and never gets old on a SWB 911S. Ditto for Slate Gray and Irish Green. Purples and metallics other than silver or gray would give me pause on a 67S, but this is your car. Enjoy it!

[Bullethead]

Mmmmmm. Sepia. It's almost Cocoa Puffs.

[NZVW]

Mmmmmm. Sepia. It's almost Cocoa Puffs.

Where's Frank when you need someone to poke some fun around ????