I'm restoring a 1973 914. which I think it's Phoenix red, but, I would not like to strip the whole body and re paint it, because the body is straight. It just need few touchs.
I bought a paint from auto paint color store, and they used the L32K, but it came kind orange.
Anybody knows anything about it?
If the car color is not Phoenix red.
I attached 2 pictures.


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Looks correct....BUT do I see a later model bumber

Here's color charts:


http://members.rennlist.com/chuxter/914Colors.htm

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=39488

If it was originally Ivory, as the inside of the doors seem to point out, then it could be anything.

What code does the door plate have stamped on it?

That's Phoenix Rrd, L32k, really a bloody Orange color. I'm restoring a 74

It is lite ivory - L80E
Do u think that could have help change the color?

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The car was lite ivory L80E, and former owner painted Phoenix red, but, do u think the light ivory help to give that difference?

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I think the only way you will get a good match is to use the paint matching gun. There is no telling what the PO painted it. It may look close on a computer screen and to your eyes, but a new painted panel side by side could be miles apart in shades.

Take one of the headlight lids off and bring it with you to the paint shop and have them match it.

Red colors go 'off' as a result of years of sunshine. It's difficult to match without the original color at hand.

Painters put a spectrophotometer on the paint to determine the correct shade of red. Mostly, simply using a standard formula on older paint, doesn't work.

Google spectrometer or spectrophotometer for more info.

Menno

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