Yeah - I know "Yellow is Faster" but there is always an oddball in the group (me). Eric Shea was there but his car was not in the picture or we would have had one more.
This was taken at Red Rocks Classic in Moab 2014.
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Full Version: Yellow 914s
We all live in a yellow 914, a yellow 914, a yellow 914!!!
My car is black but parts of it are still yellow. So, does that make it "partially" fast? 
QUOTE(Elliot Cannon @ Feb 26 2016, 10:30 AM) 
My car is black but parts of it are still yellow. So, does that make it "partially" fast?
I think the correct term is "half fast".
Click to view attachment Born chrome yellow, repainted chrome yellow, off jack stands and so close to being ready for the road.
that chrome yellow looks sweet!
cjl
cjl
Whose pink car is that on the end?? 
QUOTE(mgp4591 @ Feb 26 2016, 01:27 PM)
Whose pink car is that on the end??
Yellow 914's are faster than every other color.
You guys are all crazy
But I like it
But I like it
who you calling crazy
Yellow cars always cost me a lot of $$$ because I have to immediately get them repainted not yellow.
QUOTE(tpines @ Feb 26 2016, 11:32 AM)
We all live in a yellow 914, a yellow 914, a yellow 914!!!
Thank you for that. Now I'll be singing that in my head for the next week.
QUOTE(matthepcat @ Feb 26 2016, 04:21 PM)
Yellow cars always cost me a lot of $$$ because I have to immediately get them repainted not yellow.
That's how I feel about red cars. Yellow I'm cool with.
QUOTE(mgp4591 @ Feb 26 2016, 12:27 PM)
Whose pink car is that on the end??
That car isn't the pink one - this one is.
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Wait a minute - my car isn't pink!
QUOTE(Elliot Cannon @ Feb 26 2016, 01:30 PM)
My car is black but parts of it are still yellow. So, does that make it "partially" fast?
Yellow on the places the cops cannot see
QUOTE(Kansas 914 @ Feb 26 2016, 02:34 PM)
QUOTE(mgp4591 @ Feb 26 2016, 12:27 PM)
Whose pink car is that on the end??
That car isn't the pink one - this one is.
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Wait a minute - my car isn't pink!
QUOTE(KELTY360 @ Feb 26 2016, 10:56 AM)
QUOTE(Elliot Cannon @ Feb 26 2016, 10:30 AM)
My car is black but parts of it are still yellow. So, does that make it "partially" fast?
I think the correct term is "half fast".
Back in 1969 my first car was a RED `68 Opel Kadett B 2dr Notchback with a measely 1.1L I-4 & not particularly fast, but I kept getting pulled over.
So my Dad & I went to the neighbor who was a San Diego Police LT & asked why.
He said that cops target bright colors - Red first, then Orange, Yellow, then any of the other bright Greens, Blues, Purples, etc.
So the Cops then & now certainly think that color makes for a fast car!
.... or at least a driver who likes those colors has a propensity to speed.
So add radar/laser detectors & eyes in the back of your head folks!
This cop hunting color issue was why I changed my `76 repaint of my `73 914-2L from the 75 914 Copper Metallic - which looked metallic Orange in the sun - to my "Pavement Cammo" color of the 930 Anthracite Gray metallic in the `80-83 rolling resto - & my being pulled over stopped, while my driving style in it remained the same!
Cheers!
Tom
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Yep......Yellow is faster!!
Seems like the lady in th red dress from the movie the Matrix.
This thread made me look around more today, up here in New England.
Black, silver and white are the dominant car colors.
Occasional red cars.
Nothing else, which seems sad.
This thread made me look around more today, up here in New England.
Black, silver and white are the dominant car colors.
Occasional red cars.
Nothing else, which seems sad.
QUOTE(Tom_T @ Feb 26 2016, 05:36 PM)
QUOTE(KELTY360 @ Feb 26 2016, 10:56 AM)
QUOTE(Elliot Cannon @ Feb 26 2016, 10:30 AM)
My car is black but parts of it are still yellow. So, does that make it "partially" fast?
I think the correct term is "half fast".
Back in 1969 my first car was a RED `68 Opel Kadett B 2dr Notchback with a measely 1.1L I-4 & not particularly fast, but I kept getting pulled over.
So my Dad & I went to the neighbor who was a San Diego Police LT & asked why.
He said that cops target bright colors - Red first, then Orange, Yellow, then any of the other bright Greens, Blues, Purples, etc.
So the Cops then & now certainly think that color makes for a fast car!
.... or at least a driver who likes those colors has a propensity to speed.
So add radar/laser detectors & eyes in the back of your head folks!
This cop hunting color issue was why I changed my `76 repaint of my `73 914-2L from the 75 914 Copper Metallic - which looked metallic Orange in the sun - to my "Pavement Cammo" color of the 930 Anthracite Gray metallic in the `80-83 rolling resto - & my being pulled over stopped, while my driving style in it remained the same!
Cheers!
Tom
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Let me see.......... I have owned a black one, an orange one, a red one a white one and a yellow which I currently drive. It might be that I owned most of my earlier cars in California growing up, not to mention my father was a motorcycle cop. Now I'm in Texas and a lot of open road................ Plus the car is yellow.
QUOTE(whitetwinturbo @ Feb 26 2016, 04:20 PM)
QUOTE(Kansas 914 @ Feb 26 2016, 02:34 PM)
QUOTE(mgp4591 @ Feb 26 2016, 12:27 PM)
Whose pink car is that on the end??
That car isn't the pink one - this one is.
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Wait a minute - my car isn't pink!
Ooops.... my bad. I do remember that parking lot however and your red one is pretty sweet! Still would like to find a front valance like yours...
QUOTE(mgp4591 @ Feb 27 2016, 02:50 PM)
Still would like to find a front valance like yours...
I was lucky to get that valance. I really want one to fit the flares better but this one is pretty cool and built like a tank.
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914's 
Yellow is not faster 
It's just a bright color that everyone can see in traffic and you don't have to toot your horn to be seen. 
I like this grouping of yellow 914's.
1970 Canary Yellow # L11E (front of group)
1973 Saturn Yellow L13K (middle group)
1974 Chrome Yellow # L13M (in the garage)
Tom
Yellow is not faster It's just a bright color that everyone can see in traffic and you don't have to toot your horn to be seen. I like this grouping of yellow 914's.
1970 Canary Yellow # L11E (front of group)
1973 Saturn Yellow L13K (middle group)
1974 Chrome Yellow # L13M (in the garage)
Tom
Yellow stuff. 
Dirty Yellow in the weeds.
Yellow 914 plaid seats.
(3) yellow 914's out of (14) cars, notice how they stand out against the dark ones.![popcorn[1].gif](http://www.914world.com/bbs2/style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif)
Not faster, just easy to be seen. 
Tom
Dirty Yellow in the weeds.
Yellow 914 plaid seats.
(3) yellow 914's out of (14) cars, notice how they stand out against the dark ones.
Not faster, just easy to be seen. Tom
QUOTE(TJB/914 @ Feb 27 2016, 09:23 PM)
914's
Yellow is not faster It's just a bright color that everyone can see in traffic and you don't have to toot your horn to be seen. I like this grouping of yellow 914's.
1970 Canary Yellow # L11E (front of group)
1973 Saturn Yellow L13K (middle group)
1974 Chrome Yellow # L13M (in the garage)
Tom
Funny!
QUOTE(TJB/914 @ Feb 27 2016, 09:23 PM)
I like this grouping of yellow 914's.
1970 Canary Yellow # L11E (front of group)
1973 Saturn Yellow L13K (middle group)
1974 Chrome Yellow # L13M (in the garage)
Tom
Great picture of some fine cars. But I think L13K is actually Sunflower Yellow for 1973. L13M was Saturn Yellow in 1973 and then L13M was called Chrome Yellow in 1974.
QUOTE(Kansas 914 @ Feb 28 2016, 06:07 AM)
QUOTE(TJB/914 @ Feb 27 2016, 09:23 PM)
I like this grouping of yellow 914's.
1970 Canary Yellow # L11E (front of group)
1973 Saturn Yellow L13K (middle group)
1974 Chrome Yellow # L13M (in the garage)
Tom
Great picture of some fine cars. But I think L13K is actually Sunflower Yellow for 1973. L13M was Saturn Yellow in 1973 and then L13M was called Chrome Yellow in 1974.
...the "paint police" have arrived 
QUOTE(Kansas 914 @ Feb 28 2016, 09:07 AM)
QUOTE(TJB/914 @ Feb 27 2016, 09:23 PM)
I like this grouping of yellow 914's.
1970 Canary Yellow # L11E (front of group)
1973 Saturn Yellow L13K (middle group)
1974 Chrome Yellow # L13M (in the garage)
Tom
Great picture of some fine cars. But I think L13K is actually Sunflower Yellow for 1973. L13M was Saturn Yellow in 1973 and then L13M was called Chrome Yellow in 1974.
Hi Mike,
You are correct on 73 & 74 (see attached color chart brochure)
Tom
QUOTE(TJB/914 @ Feb 28 2016, 08:44 AM)
[Hi Mike,
You are correct on 73 & 74 (see attached color chart brochure)
Tom
Nice charts - thanks.
Why would Porsche change the name of a paint color from one year to the next? It must have been some marketing ploy is all I can figure out.
Yellow Gone WILD
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Stunning!
Canary yellow L11E
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QUOTE(Kansas 914 @ Feb 26 2016, 03:34 PM)
QUOTE(mgp4591 @ Feb 26 2016, 12:27 PM)
Whose pink car is that on the end??
That car isn't the pink one - this one is.
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Wait a minute - my car isn't pink!
I have kind of acquired a yellow one myself....
One of my favorite yellow pictures:
.... hey, that's not stinking P car 
QUOTE(Sleepin @ Mar 1 2016, 11:46 AM)
One of my favorite yellow pictures:
I agree nice yellow
Added my Chrome Yellow/Saturn Yellow photo. (Eric & Tom)
QUOTE(Sleepin @ Mar 1 2016, 09:23 AM)
That's a good one!
I have only owned yellow 914's. My current car is yellow with rust.....
QUOTE(Kansas 914 @ Mar 1 2016, 01:10 PM)
QUOTE(Sleepin @ Mar 1 2016, 09:23 AM)
That's a good one!
PINK...................
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OK, I'm in.
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QUOTE(rgalla9146 @ Mar 2 2016, 08:56 AM)
OK, I'm in.
Original 6
Nice!
I have to post a picture of my favorite yellow 914. She is the Queen of 914World (and previous COTM).
Buttercup is a 1973 1.7L that was restored with the help of many people here. Here is the thread on the build: http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...rcup&st=100
The back story is here: http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...p;hl=shortridge
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The paint on this car is Sunflower Yellow (L13K) so this picture is perfect!
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Buttercup is a 1973 1.7L that was restored with the help of many people here. Here is the thread on the build: http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...rcup&st=100
The back story is here: http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...p;hl=shortridge
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The paint on this car is Sunflower Yellow (L13K) so this picture is perfect!
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QUOTE(rgalla9146 @ Mar 2 2016, 04:56 PM)
OK, I'm in.
Original 6
Is that one yours?
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