I'm restoring 65 911 #300329. It has an original factory tag with paint code 716, a number Porsche normally wouldn't have used. I have the COA and a copy of the Cardex which both list the car as light ivory, with no color code. I've taken the car to bare metal, there's no indication that it was ever light ivory. The color under the brown respray and above the primer is a caramel color, between Bahama Yellow and Togo Brown. The code doesn't line up with a Glasurit color used by any manufacturer during that time period per their website. I attended a presentation by John Paterak at Tech Tactics a few weeks back. John's restoring 65 911 #300331. It has a paint code of 676 that the cardex lists as "brown".

Carl Bauer / Orange Bar has suggested that it's possible that the three digit paint codes are a Reutter number. "Officially there were no Reutter numbers after 1963 (Porsche bought Reutter) BUT I have a picture of a few sheets sent to Porsche of America distributors regarding mixing colors for body work. There are all the normal color codes and then there is a column titled 'Former Order #' all the way on the left hand side. Of other pages visible that I have the 'Former Order #' matches with the corresponding Reutter number." "The Reutter column for a color after 1963 may be blank or NA but it's worth a look."

This link takes you to the main page in the Porsche / Reutter book, the page with the light ivory heading and finally a page where you can see the left hand column. It looks like whoever was stamping the tags the day they did #300329 and #300331 grabbed the three digit number from the wrong column. Does anyone out there have a better shot of these pages? What color does Reutter code 716 line up with? I'd appreciate any help anyone's able to provide.

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