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I found this pic a while back and fell in love with the car. As I dream and plan about the car I'm having PMB do when its my turn in line, I think about what a flared 914 would look like in this color.

Does anyone know what the color code is? What its name is?

TIA,
-sean

My guess is

Porsche 911 (930) Turbo 3.3 Oak Green Metallic

Waiting for your PMB car is well as a song goes " It's been a long time been a long time,
Been a long, lonely, lonely lonely lonely lonely, time
Yes it has" but one of the very best shops doing 914s.

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I would email Singer. Include a pic of the car. I bet they get back to you.

Thanks guys!

Oak Green was my best guess so far, as well.

I just sent Singer an email and link to the photo. Hopefully they'll chime in. =)

Quick to respond, but not willing to share the info!

Well I was right, they got back to you

http://singervehicledesign.com/works/

LOL

Exclusivity has its privileges

DaFaq kind of answer is that? Secret color codes, because confidential?

I am a bit disappointed they would not share the color with you. Seems a bit petty.

I can understand. Their clients pay half a mill + for exclusivity. They don’t want copycats or at least they aren’t going to hand over the recipe for the secret sauce.

I know of one that went for $800,000. It started out around $625,000 2 years ago but the owner made change orders.
Still don't get these cars at all and I suppose I never will. Alois Ruf makes a car that will run circles around it.
The rear tire/wheel combination reminds me of a 2WD "pulling truck". Not at all attractive. The look is unbalanced.

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I take it you have not signed up as a future customer?

"exclusivity" as in:

Hey, look at my car, i just paid $500k for it and guess what, i won't tell you what color it is!
But please, come over here and *look* at it, because i paid so much money for it just to show it off, you know epeen and all that.
But no, even after you *looked* it all over closely, you still can't know what color it is, it "exclusive" and "secret". I paid for that, you know?


That really makes sense to you?

Looks like GM Fairway green

I once sent Wayne Carini an email about a paint color he used on a 356, I thought it would look good on my '50 GMC...he wouldn't share either.





Fairway green is a little more saturated than the 911, and I think there's a tiny goldish hue under the green that the GM color doesn't show.

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EyeKandy Olive Candy of Silver Base
I bet with the use of a gold base instead of silver, it'd produce a great color!
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Eastwood Shaggin Green Metallic
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I'm sure they get asked about the engine, bodywork, leather interior, ect. It may not make sense to us but it's there business and it makes sense to them.
When I worked at salliemae, we couldn't disclose how the loans were considered. All we could say was it is a proprietary formula. It pissed people off but it was the company's secret sauce. It didn't have to make sense, it just was.

That is apples and oranges ...

The moment you take your car out of the garage people can *see* the color.
It's *visible*. In fact, they *want* it to be visible.


The damn thing is fricking puke green. so next time it's out in the open, someone please take a better picture and have your local paint shop match it to sample.

Then paint your car the same color, take a picture of it and send it to Singer so they can share it with their client.

A few minutes with the car is all you need. And the reader....

GLASURIT RATIO SCAN II

just a bunch of cheap car hacks ,seriously I don't think they use any stock Porsche colours,think they have there own colour chart for customers.
However neat colour would be nice to see a 914 in that shade.

I can't hit this link from work. Can somebody post the pic?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/darylchapman/37350158880

https://imgur.com/r/carPorn/qbSXPUF

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I actually liked the Sooner 911's due to price and being all steel.

That really is a great color, looks quite different under different lighting.

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Right on!

Bob B

Modified Metallic Army Olive Drab??

That color is not my cup of tea, but it doesn't seem like it would be that hard to find in an auto paint book.

Army Olive Drab is exactly what I was seeing in the original image! No thanks! I already served my time!

Here you go...
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And when you thought that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.......

You vill not get ze formula !!!!!!!!

Dave

Why should they give away the formula that they most likely have spent many hours experimenting and spraying test panels to find the "right" mix for? Sure once its revealed for the first time its possible to reverse engineer it and get something very close but that never makes it exactly the same. I dont think they want people claiming to have "Singer spec colours" on cars that dont come close to their extremely high standard of doing things.

If you like the colour just bring as many pictures as you can to a paint shop and let them mix up a formula you like...

That first rock chip is going to suuuuuuuuck!

Maybe it's me but a flared, racy type of car needs to be non-metallic. Metallic paint just softens the car too much.

Mine is a similar, although non-metallic color. It is Porsche color 3939 Olive.

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Paint coloring is a black magic, the more you look and compare colors, the more different some colors look. Additionally, some people just cant see tiny differences in color that others can.

Here's a test you can take at home, to check your ability to see color hue.
http://www.xrite.com/hue-test

If you don't score zero (golf scoring, lower is better)or near zero, understand that your posted opinion about what this color looks like is probably waaay off.

of top of that, the original photo, and any of the other photos of the car, are edited. The way the color looks in person might be different too.

So to answer the original question, there's no way of knowing the exact color without talking to the owner and them being willing to share it (or secretly scanning their car I suppose), BUT you could certainly open up a color book and find many that are incredibly close.

Wooo Hoo! Zero!

It's a good thing I got a zero, I get paid to color cameras every day!