Best Color

wombat, what colour does not look good on a 356 Ray

pink

Yeah that salmond pink Mary Kay color would be a hard resell.

 

Do a search on Porsche 356 stone grey - it's more of a subtle OD green.

 

 

Convinced you're keeping it forever? Any friggin' color you like!

Not sure how long you'll put up with plugged idle jets, dripping oil, cracking and contorted knees? Probably silver, black, ivory or red.

pink... how about this one...

http://youtu.be/ZfbBqBOSXlU

> On Sep 20, 2015, at 5:22 PM, SpeedsterOwners.com <alerts@hoop.la> wrote:
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Well, if you make it too nice you'll have to keep an eye on it a lot more....

Aww, come on, I liked the pink pig!

You can't go wrong with Porsche grey.

 

 

WOMBAT:

 

WHAT COLOR IS the Interior going to be?

 

Also  You can refer to Terry Nuckles book " Paint by numbers exterior painting for Speedsters" (circa 1973)...

 

Tebs

Love your car, Ron!

On the road soon?

Ron I love your car, wombat, this colour is hard to match... but not the grey on Ron's car.

cant say Vince doesn't have an eye for color!! lol

 

Damn creepy!!

 

Tebs 

I would have said that any color looks good on a Speedster but those shades of pink are really disgusting. (To me, that is.)

 

I just saw a very dark blue---not metallic-- on a new VS that was sensational. It was a gorgeous shade of blue---not so dark that it looked at all like black but far enough from black to know right away it was a hue of blue.  I like my ivory just fine  but the colors that win the Best Of Show trophies are usually darker colors.  Dark colors seem to shine more---I have to use everything Griot sells to get a shine like dark colors easily produce.

 

Of colors are truly a personal choice and if you are spending your money you should get what YOU like!  

 

My first sales job was selling automotive finish products for DuPont.   Way back then the #1 color was white.  Today #1 is shades of gray.  Porsche Seal Gray, for example---super.  The colors in least demand were green and brown---same for men's suits.  My new Genesis is metallic silver.  Alice's santa Fe is black---nice looking car.  Jim's new black Speedster---breathtaking!  Ruby (the car and the color) is one of the best looking Speedsters in the fleet.  To each his own.

 

Anyway---choose a color that you love!!

Ron - Love that modern color combo on classic car.  I'd be in a new 2016 if the still offered the meteor gray and spice brown interior and top.  Not sure if it was special edition or what - now its black or beige - ugh.

 

Color chips don't do the stone grey justice -

 

One of the best color combinations of all!

Think about what colors Vintage can supply for your top, tonneau and boot, then think about what colors would look good for your upholstery to mate with your top selection. Then pick a color for the car and accent the upholstery piping with any conflicts. I think solid colors with no metallic are very pleasing to the eye on cars 50 years old or so.....My two cents......Bruce

Check out the fantastic Stone Grey speedster now on European Collectables website. Finally a perfect and correct restoration [!]

You can't go wrong with black!

When I went to buy my new car, I fully intended to buy a silver body with deep red interior. Then on getting to the builders he had a "off white" car with light brown interior. I fell in love with the off white but chose a black interior (every day car) I still love the colour (British by the way) and have re-blacked the worn leather with boot polish - the edges of the seats take a pounding on the piping from getting in and out.

Nough said! "Arrest me red"!

The best way to select a color is to visit Car Dealers ( on Sunday when you won't get hounded) this way you see the colors on a car and make a better choice. BTW Fiat and Volkswagon New Beetle have great colors that will work well on a speedster. Also you can see what interior colors compliment the exterior paint. You can get the paint code and color right off the window sticker and the interior info can be had by jotting down the 17 digit VIN number and inquire with that Dealer's parts department.

I agree Alan spent a lot of time at the Porsche and Jaguar and Aston Martin dealer while on holidays nota huge jump to imagine it on a 356
Ended up with a jag colour it looked 50ish period correct. Someone will shortly come out with a wrap so you can change colours on the fly Ray

That combo was my first choice, but my wife didn't like the color. 

I meant to say in an new MIATA MX5 - the horror of that! I do love the Meteor grey and spice brown.

Almost could pass for twins.

 

 

 

 

Ron, what kind of grey is that in the porsche book? Ray 

I had a friend who decades ago was an art instructor at Famous Artist Institute, founded by Albert Doran, in Westport. Doran drove a magnificent chocolate brown Ferrari coupe. My friend loved the color so much he had his VW beetle repainted the identical color...The result was something that resembled a lumpy turd!

 

So the lesson learned is make sure you're comparing apples to apples...and not Bugs to Ferraris

 

 

 

 

Good point, Carl.

 

On the other hand, it's pretty hard to find a color combination that doesn't look good on these cars. It's not my cup of tea at all, but some guys swoon over Meissen Blau with a red interior... which sort've proves the point.

 

 

You can all call me boring, but I really love silver/black. I think it makes the car look more serious-- and since it's really an overgrown clown car, a speedster needs all the "serious" help it can get.

 

 

But for pure "period Porsche" love, it's hard to beat Slate Gray with deep burgundy leather, charcoal square weave, and a black top. John Leader did the first one I ever saw in 2005. It was, is, and always will be my favorite color combination on a speedster. It just looked "German".

 

 

Stone Gray could be the most hideous color ever (on a paint chip) to look so amazingly awesome on a car. Scott Sloan's homerun outlaw was the boldest, most daring use of a putty color I've ever seen. His car continues to be a standard for everybody else.

 

 

I even like "Man of Chilie" gray, as long as the interior is appropriately red, and further assuming the car has over-riders and appropriately shiny britework. It's about the color of the clay we used to use in HS art (the class you took to hang out with hippy-chicks and get an easy credit). It has no right to look good on anything outside a $200k exotic with blacked out wheels, but it somehow looks OK on a speedster (if done right).

 

 

 

Nice colors Stan. Here is Porsche's newer old school looking color. Carrera Cream white.

Another great putty color looks great on the Speedster. Dale Bates VW Mause Grey.

All very nice, but doesn't anyone have anything good to say about fjord green?

I like the fjord green.  I think it looks good on a coupe.  If you are going for a simple speedster - no outlaw stuff, I think it would be fantastic.  I like the darker colors for more of the outlaw stuff.  I had a Signal Red that was pretty and we did another speedster in Porsche Seal Grey which I though looked fantastic.  pics don't do it justice but he metal flake in it really makes it a great color in light.  You can see mine on my little photo icon.

 

I am doing a spyder now in silver with navy blue wheels and darts.  Silver to me on the spyder is the way to go....to me...  But I really do like a Silver speedster as well.  Everyone of the above look fantastic...you cant go wrong, but I like that fjord green. 

May favorite Speedster (all 356a's, actually) color - 5707 Aquamarine.  Give it an oxblood interior and oatmeal carpet and it's perfection - IMHO, at least.

 

Well, after having a Red Roadster (the Red Rooster) with tan interior, then a Iridium Silver Speedster (with wine interior), my new one is Jaguar British Racing Green with what is called a mahogany interior.

 

I do like John Leader's car that Stan posted above, though.  Very Germanic, but I wanted a British look this time.

 

I'll see it in person tomorrow, and see what it really looks like.

 

 

Yes Fjord green is nice too.

Lane's suggestion in a Speedster.