blood orange vs. tangerine - 67 normal

[Zithlord]

Raj; I bought it 3 years ago from the US. Two previous owners. The first, a lovely lady that is now retired and lives in Florida. Her name is Neva Burton, and she had it for 25 years and drove it about 170,000 miles. The second owner was Chip Habercam, he is in to muscle cars I believe. The car was a bit tired, but I bought restores leather seats(original) and restored the door pockets and bought a perfect original dash. Chassis wise I have welded two rust holes in the back seats bottoms(leak through the rear window seal) and due to battery leak has changed the front pan and support. There was no other rust found. I changed the S bumper to a correct 71T bumper and refurbished the gas tank. I also changed the instruments to Euro standard a long with the turn signal lenses. The under carriage has all new bushings. Engine was rebuild prior to me buying it, but I refurbished the flywheel and changed clutch. I also had it set to euro ride height and corner balanced. Probably a few more things! Its a nice numbers matching car, with a nice owners history!

BTW I communicate with Neva on a regular basis to let her know if her car is doing fine!


Best
John

[chiroracer]

Also curious about any recent resprays of this color and opinions on ppg vs glasurit . Also I am only considering single stage though many painters prefer clearcoats, the thought of the clearcoat bubbling off in another 40 years when I am 85 makes me retch bile.I can live with single stage fading to a generous "patina" thats how it is now.Steve

[mcaterino]

Steve,

I had a recent job done with two stage PPG envirobase. You can see the result in my blog: http://mk911.blogspot.com

It looks oranger than I was expecting, and not as red-orange as many of the pictures I've seen (in this thread and others), but I think most of that is just variation with the lighting. There's a 'show your oranges' thread active on the Pelican tech forum right now, if you haven't checked in there lately.

I don't have any direct experience with single-stage jobs or glasurit, so can't comment there.

The attached pictures shows the paint, with codes and such on the can. Let me know if you can't read anything important.

Mike

[G69]

THAT is a very accurate photo of the Tangerine color.

[beetle08]

Brining back an old thread. So, tangerine and blood orange are the same? Some folks mention the blood orange has a little more red in it. I hope there the same because I'm ordering paint soon!

[911T1971]

Its all the same hue.
Code however depends to the Modelyear.

We forget that officially it was not only called "Blutorange", "Blood orange" or "Tangerine"..but also "Orange sanguine" as well as "Arancio sangue".

Source: Colour Chart for RoW, 1970, printed 8/70, code W28

[Darren65]

Something I posted on DDK a while back....

One of my favourite photos…..just love how the colour curves around the bottom edge of the engine lid and the SLAM of orange screaming from the number plate panel…and it's all the same colour!!!…..I'll never tire of drooling over tangerine!

[NeunElf]

Brining back an old thread. So, tangerine and blood orange are the same? Some folks mention the blood orange has a little more red in it. I hope there the same because I'm ordering paint soon!

I'm pretty sure a blood orange and a tangerine are different fruits: a tangerine's an easy-to-peel variety of mandarin orange which grows in my back yard while a blood orange is an orange with a distintly red flesh. However, Porsche used "tangerine" for a color they celled "blood orange" in other languages. There's a 1969 color chart on Charlie Whites 911/912 website:

Color code 6809 is both "Blutorange" and "Tangerine."

[911T1971]

Yes Jim, as fruits a Blut-Orange and a Tangerine fruit are not the same.
The Tangerine is also usually smaller and has a thicker skin…and easier to peel, as like in general all Mandarines vs Oranges...
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For the records, here are period colour folders.
Note that this on paper printed colours are not 100% similar to a car's paint.
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1967
Special order colour/Sonderfarbe


1968 US market
1968 RoW market (content similar, cover different)



1969 US market
1969 Row Market (content similar, cover different)



1970 US market



1970 RoW market
1971 RoW market (content similar, cover different)



1971 US market


1972 US market



1972 RoW market



1973 US market



1973 RoW market




BTW here is another car in Blutorange/Tangerine, code 2323, 1971 MY (yes, mine)

[JT912]

6809. Tangerine