OT: 911 Factory Paint, Orange Peel Options

[windforfun]

Were new 911s ever sold with an orange peel finish?

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[targa72e]

A local collector had a early 930 turbo with very low miles. When it has been shown it looked like a cheap resto job until you looked at the sub 10K miles. This car had lots of orange peal and the fitment and finish of the flares was not great either (early cars had welded on flares). Standard today is perfect paint and body but that is not how they came out of the factory.

john

[wonkipop]

A local collector had a early 930 turbo with very low miles. When it has been shown it looked like a cheap resto job until you looked at the sub 10K miles. This car had lots of orange peal and the fitment and finish of the flares was not great either (early cars had welded on flares). Standard today is perfect paint and body but that is not how they came out of the factory.

john

sounds right.

i seem to recall stories from the early 80s here that 924s had better paint than 911s.
highly possible that the old NSU factory that was used to build 924s had more up to date paint tech/equipment than the garage in stuttgart. bit hard to know if that story was true since its kind of slightly before my time sticking my noses into porsches.

the NSU RO80s were built to an unbelievably high standard to take on mercedes benz.
it probably wasn't just the rotary engine sent them broke in the end but also the massive investment they made to try and jump up the quality ladder.