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> why would anyone ever color change a 914?, especially a sunflower yellow car
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post Jan 15 2020, 11:10 AM
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guy took a perfectly good, never been wrecked nor rusted 74 2.0 and color changed it from sunflower yellow to forrest green. I cannot understand the motivation hereAttached Image Attached Image
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post Jan 15 2020, 11:20 AM
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Sometimes you just can't fix stupid?
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post Jan 15 2020, 11:31 AM
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well, I guess he just didn't like the color....
I changed the color of my car from zambezi green to ravenna green but I also painted the trunk, interior, floors, dash, etc.
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post Jan 15 2020, 11:33 AM
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It was his car, no need to make anyone else happy.
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post Jan 15 2020, 11:49 AM
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QUOTE(dr914@autoatlanta.com @ Jan 15 2020, 09:10 AM) *
guy took a perfectly good, never been wrecked nor rusted 74 2.0 and color changed it from sunflower yellow to forrest green. I cannot understand the motivation here

I have an original /6 that was Canary Yellow and it will not be yellow again while i own it.

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post Jan 15 2020, 12:06 PM
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It's OK to each their own. Yellow is NOT in my top ten colors either. Plus if you're restoring it from bad paint or was given the car in the color you don't like and have lots of money make yourself happy.
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post Jan 15 2020, 12:08 PM
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Because you dont like the colour it is but the car is otherwise to your taste.
Mine was Light Ivory the most boring of all the 914 colors. So I changed it, but then I took the whole car apart and painted everything.
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post Jan 15 2020, 12:36 PM
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How much is the asking on the green car?
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post Jan 15 2020, 01:17 PM
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It was his car, no need to make anyone else happy.



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post Jan 15 2020, 01:21 PM
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Mine was Light Ivory the most boring of all the 914 colors.

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post Jan 15 2020, 01:32 PM
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I did the opposite during the V8 conversion of my MGB. Green to yellow. It probably hurts the value to do a color change (more on a 914 than an MGB), but for some it beats living with a color you don't like.

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post Jan 15 2020, 01:40 PM
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How about if we establish a high brow panel of experts to determine if the owner of a car has the right to do a color change?
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post Jan 15 2020, 01:43 PM
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To each their own...but I would have color-changed that 914 to Irish Green or a very dark non-metallic blue in a heartbeat—as either would look GREAT with that interior—so long as I could afford to do it the right way (which means no yellow left, anywhere). Which is the only thing that prevented me from color-changing my 914 from Bahia to Irish back in high school.

I respect those who cherish really original cars, and I do too. But my take for the rest is simple: As long as there are some "reference" cars out there, in super original shape, the rest of us can play as we like to. They're just cars...and the ones that need a lot of work aren't reference cars, or original, anyway...
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post Jan 15 2020, 01:47 PM
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It's OK to each their own. Yellow is NOT in my top ten colors either.


Yep - except my car IS yellow... I bought in red, but it left the factory in white.

After 50 years, it almost surely needed paint at some point along the way (crashed or not).

Not a big deal, really.

The whole numbers-matching/original color = value thing continues to elude me. Give me a nice car in decent shape with salvage title at a bargain price and I will happily buy it & drive it. Then sell it at a similar discount later on (or not).


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post Jan 15 2020, 01:47 PM
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Because Silver 914s are ugly that’s why I changed color.
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post Jan 15 2020, 01:49 PM
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Well at least it appears to be a quality job with a good finish,not so bad if only the interior floors haven't been repainted.
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post Jan 15 2020, 01:56 PM
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my point is that one can NEVER get a good job with a color change unless the car is stripped to a bare body shell and media blasted. I actually did that to one of my roadsters years ago because I wanted it to match my 84 guards red cabriolet. It was originally white then yellow when I got it

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post Jan 15 2020, 01:58 PM
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it is very very obvious that you did it correctly, just a lot of work. Looks great. I LOVE my bgts (notice that the lighter white one (paint not good) has been color changed from old english white to american white!

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I did the opposite during the V8 conversion of my MGB. Green to yellow. It probably hurts the value to do a color change (more on a 914 than an MGB), but for some it beats living with a color you don't like.


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post Jan 15 2020, 02:00 PM
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QUOTE(dr914@autoatlanta.com @ Jan 15 2020, 09:10 AM) *
guy took a perfectly good, never been wrecked nor rusted 74 2.0 and color changed it from sunflower yellow to forrest green. I cannot understand the motivation here

I have an original /6 that was Canary Yellow and it will not be yellow again while i own it.

Go ahead, hate me ...
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I don't hate yellow, but I also changed my car from silver to Alaska Blue Metallic.
So glad I did!!

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post Jan 15 2020, 03:23 PM
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QUOTE(falcor75 @ Jan 15 2020, 10:08 AM) *
Mine was Light Ivory the most boring of all the 914 colors.

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I don't mind the white and/or Ivory color on these cars especially this one with the orange trim, looks nice. I have seen all white 914s and if I were to buy one would put the black porsche letters on the side so it would have some nice trim to it.
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