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> the pink 914 gets some new shoes, factory paint to sample
dr914@autoatlanta.com
post Dec 6 2023, 04:38 PM
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post Dec 6 2023, 04:39 PM
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who hates rivieras? (wheels of course!!!!)Attached Image
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post Dec 6 2023, 05:24 PM
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That's the "reddest" shade of pink I've ever seen.

Looks NICE now!

So does the shop...

30 years ago, I would have loved to wrench in such an atmosphere!


Don't hate on rivieras!

We all have a set...

Use mine for "shop tires" to push dead 914s around.
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post Dec 6 2023, 05:30 PM
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That's actually a great color on a 914. Thanks for sharing George.
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post Dec 6 2023, 06:33 PM
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Great choice George
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post Dec 6 2023, 08:31 PM
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A huge improvement; a great car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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post Dec 6 2023, 09:38 PM
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Love the color - painted a Sunbeam Tiger that color in the late 80s
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post Dec 7 2023, 04:35 AM
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What is the name of the color???
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post Dec 7 2023, 04:44 AM
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I had a tiny involvement with a dealer in the 70's. Porsche offered up a PTS program for a bit less than $200/car. The GM"s wife went wild and we had 50 914's all different colors. The only one we had a hard time getting rid of was one painted Barbie pink. A few years of sitting on the front lot got the sales manager to hide it behind the shop. He dropped the price every week and upped the commission. I think it finally sold in 77 for a bit over $2000.
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post Dec 7 2023, 06:25 PM
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Dang that turned out nice!
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post Dec 8 2023, 08:55 AM
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I had a tiny involvement with a dealer in the 70's. Porsche offered up a PTS program for a bit less than $200/car. The GM"s wife went wild and we had 50 914's all different colors. The only one we had a hard time getting rid of was one painted Barbie pink. A few years of sitting on the front lot got the sales manager to hide it behind the shop. He dropped the price every week and upped the commission. I think it finally sold in 77 for a bit over $2000.

With Barbie pink being the rage this year, consider what the sale price could have been now! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
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post Dec 8 2023, 11:00 AM
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What is the name of the color???


funny on the window sticker it just says "paint to sample" and costs an extra 284.00 dollars! (in todays money probably 28 thousand!!! So the real color probably lost to posterity
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post Dec 8 2023, 11:01 AM
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post Dec 8 2023, 11:03 AM
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I had a tiny involvement with a dealer in the 70's. Porsche offered up a PTS program for a bit less than $200/car. The GM"s wife went wild and we had 50 914's all different colors. The only one we had a hard time getting rid of was one painted Barbie pink. A few years of sitting on the front lot got the sales manager to hide it behind the shop. He dropped the price every week and upped the commission. I think it finally sold in 77 for a bit over $2000.



Sounds like many of the limited edition models NO ONE wanted the wacky color combinations that would only call attention to themselves so many had the yellow or orange trim changed to black trim and silver wheels before they could sell them or sold them by suggesting a quick trim paint job to customers
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post Dec 8 2023, 07:28 PM
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At first posts ..I thought poor Picture.. Now I Know ,,, That aint No Pink Ive ever seen ..
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post Dec 8 2023, 07:29 PM
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Paint As Sample... Its Special ...Not Pink
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post Dec 8 2023, 07:59 PM
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PTS is something north of 12 kilobucks now, ~15% of the cost of a base model.
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post Dec 8 2023, 09:29 PM
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I had this Paint To Sample here for a while. Purple Rain. Ugh. The color did nothing for the car. The customer shipped it to himself in Honduras. I strongly convinced him to color-change it. He did, it's orange now. Looks so much better.


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post Dec 9 2023, 12:41 AM
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I had this Paint To Sample here for a while. Purple Rain. Ugh. The color did nothing for the car. The customer shipped it to himself in Honduras. I strongly convinced him to color-change it. He did, it's orange now. Looks so much better.


That looks real close to the TCU cars that Green Oaks Porsche Audi had PTS painted "TCU purple."
They sold a bunch of them to well off college students.
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post Dec 9 2023, 06:56 PM
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TCU the college?
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