1971 silver metallic info needed for my paint shop

[earlyaircooled]

I have a 71E I'm having the door repainted, it is silver metallic, code on door jam says 8010-11 , Authenticity guide says it should be 925 or 8010. The shop I took it to uses Lesonal paint, they painted the car for me a couple of years ago, and now cant find these codes in their computer system. He thought he got it out of a manual but cant find the manual. The painter said "I need the manufacturers code". Not sure what that is? Anyway, can anyone point me in the right direction? Apparently he puts a code in the computer and it mixes the paint, he has a wall of paint with lines going into each...all automated.

[mac73s]

I am not familiar with Lesonal paint, but providing the 8010 (the 11 I believe indicates the manufacturer of the original paint) number should suffice - meaning that number is the code, and when provided to a supplier (i.e. Dupont, PPG, Glasurit, or Lesonal) should yield a mixing formula in whatever type of solvent or water-based paint is being used. If your Lesonal guy still struggles, you might try obtaining a Dupont, PPG, etc. formula and see if Lesonal can cross-reference it. I recently spoke with my PPG dealer and he easily came up with a formula for my 73 911 silver - code 936.

[earlyaircooled]

Thank you Mac73S

David

[davep]

As I said on Pelican, the 11 is probably incorrect; G, L, H & HL are the only suffix I know of.
The color number for silver was 924 about 1968, and possibly changed to 925 in 1969 or 1970. Then it changed again to 936 in Sept of 1971.
The code used in 1970 & 1971 was 80. Silver was a very complicated color, and the codes changed frequently.

[91133]

Your correct paint number is 8010 (this also indicates your car is a Targa) and the paint code is 925. The paint tag should read 8010-x-1 where the x is the body builder (Porsche vs Karmann etc) and the 1 indicates a Lesanol paint. A 2 in the final space would be Glasurit. I think some cars at some time had a 3. I don't know what paint manufacturer that is.

[earlyaircooled]

The door jam might say 8010-H I'll have another closer look. I gave my painter the code 8010 and he couldnt find it I just called and left a message asking him to try 80. In the authenticity guide by B. Johnson he says they used 8010 for targa and 8080 for coupes and he also references 925. As I recall my car was made around May of 71. Thanks again for the info

David

[earlyaircooled]

I just saw 91133 comments then it could be 8010-11 where the 1st indicated (Porsche or Karmann) and the second 1 indicates Lesonal. Thanks for that info.

[davep]

The paint tag should read 8010-x-1 where the x is the body builder (Porsche vs Karmann etc) and the 1 indicates a Lesanol paint.

Not quite correct. 1970 & 71 had the xxxx-y code and from 1972 the coding changed to xxx-y-z.
The 70/71 code was actually 2 digits for body and 2 digits for roof followed by the paint manufacturer letter. So if the paint code was 80 (silver) then a coupe would be 8080 if it was all one color; and I have never found a two tone coupe. The targa would be 8010 where 10 was black for the normal targa top; I guess other colors were possible, but I've not found one yet.
The coding for paint manufacturers that I have worked out are
1 L Lesonal
2 G Glasurit
3 H Herberts
4 HL Herbol
where first column is the 72+ code, and second column is the 70/71 code

[earlyaircooled]

Davep thanks for the thoughtful response. I finally asked my painter to look for the code 80 and that worked. Mine appears to have an H after the code number

[davep]

Mine appears to have an H after the code number

That is correct.