914/6 - changing the colour from original, Effect on value? Options

[cal914]

We have recently bought a matching numbers 914/6 and it needs some restoration work including a bare metal re-spray. It is (original) Alaska [edit: should have said Adriatic blue] Blue and we are not keen on that colour. Our favourite colour is Signal Orange.

We will be keeping the car once restored and driving it and showing it, for the foreseeable.

We would be interested to hear views on the effect on value in changing the colour.

Thanks Kate/Brian

[mountainroads]

We have recently bought a matching numbers 914/6 and it needs some restoration work including a bare metal re-spray. It is (original) Alaska [edit: should have said Adriatic blue] Blue and we are not keen on that colour. Our favourite colour is Signal Orange.

We will be keeping the car once restored and driving it and showing it, for the foreseeable.

We would be interested to hear views on the effect on value in changing the colour.

Thanks Kate/Brian

I struggled with this very same subject during my current -6 resto project. I've owned several older Porsches, and they've all been Tangerine. Except my first, which was a metallic blue repaint over original Irish (??) Green 914. Tangerine is a fine period color, but there are other pretty colors out there too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Originality horse left the barn long ago on this car: different engine, different wheels, side-shift tranny, different front brakes. So, I debated changing the color while at it, since we were going down to bare tub anyway.

In the end, I decided that even considering the other changes, closer to original was still better, and I stuck with Tangerine for the very reasons that others have mentioned. My .02.

Shoot me a PM if you're really not happy with blue and fully restored Tangerine would make an acceptable substitute for Signal Orange (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

- MR