So I was curious about what the most common 914/6 color was.
This is based on 686 car that I have COAs on...nothing more scientific than that.

15.91% Silver Metallic
15.77% Tangerine
13.72% Signal Orange
13.58% Canary Yellow
13.58% Light Ivory
9.20% Irish Green
4.82% Adriatic Blue
2.92% Metallic Green
1.90% Metallic Blue
1.46% Bahia Red
1.46% Metallic Red
1.17% Gemini Blue
0.88% Willow Green
0.88% Saturn Yellow
0.73% Metallic Gold
0.73% Black
0.58% Paint to order (Porsche)
0.44% Sun Yellow
0.44% Paint to order (Customer)

If i have some time over the weekend, i can run a script to see what the numbers are in our VIN database.

Obviously not as reliable as actual copies of COAs but still maybe interesting to see how they compare ...

Should be interesting to see if they are close

I love statistics ... as long as I don't have to do one

interesting stuff

UPDATE
This is based on 845 car that I have COAs on
15.50% Tangerine
15.27% Silver Metallic
13.73% Light Ivory
13.61% Signal Orange
13.14% Canary Yellow
10.30% Irish Green
6.04% Adriatic Blue
2.72% Metallic Green
1.78% Metallic Blue
1.78% Metallic Red
1.18% Bahia Red
0.95% Metallic Gold
0.95% Gemini Blue
0.83% Saturn Yellow
0.71% Black
0.71% Willow Green
0.47% Paint to order (Porsche)
0.36% Paint to order (Customer)

3 Irish green
1 Canary yellow
1 Light ivory
1 Tangerine



I saw a Metalic Green, on the freeway ..Alaska Plate ..35yrs ago

and i have seen a lilac 6.
not a GT either.
and it sure looked original. all sun faded straight from texas.
would have been 25 years ago i saw it.
but you know i wasn't checking karmann plates / whatever back then.
but it was all lilac everywhere. inners etc.

EDIT
and when i say lilac.
(fancy name?).
i called it purple back then - mid 90s.

If the car was originally purple (aubergine) it would fall under one of these paint codes:
Paint to order (Porsche)
Paint to order (Customer)

McMark has a 914/4 that was aubergine

An aubergine car is a very deep purple. Not very
lilac.
Think of the skin of a big fat ripe eggplant.
Last year a dealer in Cleveland had an aubergine '75 914 with a tan interior.

I've always wondered how many 73~74's were factory painted L99A Delphi Green like mine? Window sticker designated it as a $206 optional custom color.

We had our choice of Tangerine, Signal Orange or Irish Green brand new but year-old -6s when we traded in our '70 Silver 1.7 at Johnson-Bozzanni Porsche in Phoenix on 9/14/71. Still have the green one out in the garage. The purchase date was a total accident and we didn't realize the significance until years later.

no it wasn't aubergine. too dark.
when it arrived through customs it was delivered to a mate of mine and put in his garage.
the owner lived out of the country most of the time.
my mate called me to come around and take look at it.
it was a sunbaked car, but you could see original color in the front trunk.


paint to order would be the category. you are correct.

EDIT
i would have said it was this. proper purple. 60s style.
https://www.rennbow.org/porsche-colors/RoyalPurple(Lilac)
but its a long time ago.

the guy who owned the car and brought it in hated it.
he painted the car yellow.

i've never forgotten the purple - it was so memorable.

@wonkipop that's just plum crazy

i'd love to have a 6. but it ain't ever going to happen.

but if i did..............it would be plum crazy.

i did tell the guy who owned it he should repaint it in the purple.
which we assumed rightly or wrongly was original.
i can't remember what he said to me exactly anymore, but it wasn't a compliment.

the car is still around.
owned by someone else these days.
i am pretty sure it was out at sandown a few weeks back at a german day.
and its still not purple.

OT
i found a super-roo sticker for you.
its a repro.
when it arrives i'll send it in the post.

I didn't realize the color on my '70 914-6 was so rare, 1.78% Metallic Blue


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WOW.. That is a really cool color..

That is the paint code on our 70 Six. @Rusty repainted it with Boxster blue. We love the current color, but it is going back to the original color when we have the body work done.

Now we know what it will look like when it gets painted.

Thanks!

Clay

When I got that car, it had four different layers of paint on it already... each a different shade of metallic blue... so I stripped it and did what made me happy. Metallic Cobalt Blue should have been a factory 914 color.

The only thing that pisses us off about the color of the car is that we love it, but we are going to take it off so it can be repainted back to the stock color.

Clay