I'm looking for good pictures of three different 914 colors:
Bahia Red
Guards Red
Phoenix Red

I'm deciding on a color and would like to see some pictures of these colors. I went to the 914 color site and the pics are not real clean. I've painted my last two cars yellow and have decided that this one will be Red. I've always been told that yellow cars are faster, but red cars get the girls!

Thanks,
Randy

Guards Red wasn't a 914 color. Bahia is the nicest of the 3. Phoenix, although very nice, appears to be more of a orange. The car below is Bahia red.

Thanks Tod! I know Guards is not a 914 color, but it is at least Porsche! The Phoenx is very orange, but is interesting!

Randy

How about 356 Ruby Red?

non porsche I know, 88 corvette red, my old car...

gwen, that's not ruby red.

I think it's called rusty red.

I could have sworn that's what Cap'n Krusty said it was when I bought it from him...

What color is it then?

WOW that ruby red 914 with SC flairs looks Sweet

gwen,
I may be wrong. My 356 was ruby red from the factory, but had been repainted a guard's red in the 80s.
This is the color I see as ruby red:


This is the same car though:

and another:


so, now I'm confused.

mine is guards red, i love that color ...

Andy

Phoenix red is orange.

Simular to this BBS orange. with a tint of red....

I dunno. I'm just telling ya'll what I was told. I haven't repainted her yet, though parts could definitely use it!

I used to have a '61 MGA that was painted Guards Red and it looked orangey.

Lighting and monitor color calibration can confuse though

Trying to judge colors based on something you see on the net is a bad idea. Monitor calibration and different video cards can make the same picture on two different computers look completely different, even in the best of circumstances.

Best to play it safe and go with the best 914 red: Malaga!

Thanks!

I like it too

This Isn't my car, its one I have saved for my screen saver....but it is a Phoenix Red car.
I hope my Phoenix Red 74 2.0 car looks this good one day

Here's my Bahia Red.
Originally it was a deeper red. On my second repaint it ended up a little more orange. Not sure why.

Same paint job as previous post, but looks much redder here. So you really can't judge by these digital pics.

Nice looking cars guys. Andy, I like the way you intergrated the bumper into the body. Looks great.

Here is my Guards red (a.k.a ticket red) They say yellow is faster but RED looks fast just sitting there.

Thanks everybody, I use this as a guide, I pick a few colors and go to my paint supplier, he mixes up a few ounces of each and I spray them on color cards, a coat of clear laid on a little thick and you get the idea. I started doing that after I painted a 914 polar silver and hated it. I painted it silver on Saturday, looked at it for two days and sanded it all of and painted it New Beetle Yellow the next Saturday. I won't do that again. Plus I have all these cool little cans of 914 paint samples. I think I'm leaning toward Bahia, partially based on this thread and this picture...daddy likes!!!