Just saw this 356B posted on another site. Beautiful color. Wonder why no one has ever picked it. Maybe not a Speedster OEM?
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911's have that colour palette.
Later 356's may have had that as original but I don't remember ever seeing it as an option during Speedster manufacture. You are right- it does look good!
Al, it’s a B in original color.
I think it would be spectacular with baseball glove interior. And although not from the 50’s A, pre-A pallete, it’s got enough Porscheyness not to look hideous, like some painted modern Audi, BMW, or Lexus colors.
@dlearl476- Great to hear that it's in it's original color. I'm just not up on colors newer than about 1958 (you know, the end of Speedster production...).
"It’s got enough Porscheyness not to look hideous, like some painted modern Audi, BMW, or Lexus colors."
Thank God I used a muted, 1999 Audi White Pearlescent paint on "Pearl" - She really likes it....
So do all the other chicks.
And if you park them just right, with the right angle of setting sun, the base color is the same as Marty G's old IM!
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They’re not original, so I’m not sure why I’d care about a color’s originality. It’s not like a mustache on the Mona Lisa.
Is "baseball glove" an original interior color? Is that OK?
I'm slow on the rules.
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I've got 4 or 5 Speedsters and one Spyder out there in that color, assuming it's ChampegnerGelb #6405 It was a late (64) 356 color that carried on to the 912/911, but yellow in general is not a popular choice it seems.
looking back at the color codes it was actually first offered in '62
@Stan Galat posted:They’re not original, so I’m not sure why I’d care about a color’s originality. It’s not like a mustache on the Mona Lisa....
...Is "baseball glove" an original interior color? Is that OK?
I'm slow on the rules.
While you are right, Stan, our pride and joys are not P vin numbered examples, so we're not bound by the same constraints as owners of originals and the whole color palette is available to us, there are colors that suit these cars more than others, and that's what I took from what @dlearl476 (is it Dave? my apologies for having forgotten) was saying- that it's a not often seen color that would look good on a Speedster. And I do think that some great looking Speedsters have been built over the years with some not so traditional color choices. Otherwise, yes, your question concerning baseball glove interiors would certainly raise a great point. 
Original colour?
How about Jaguar British Racing Green.
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Is that a (*gasp*) BASEBALL LEATHER interior, Bob?!?
It's hideous in its unoriginality. I may faint.
... and Gordon -- are those eyeballs on the dash shade OG? How does Tow Mater feel about the blatant rip-off?
The horror. The horror.
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I know...
It was either the eyeballs in the sun shade or a mustache between the driving lights, but a small Mustache on a German car might have been a tad politically incorrect - After you got over it just looking weird.
At least I have a Nauga-Hyde interior, so no baseballs or their gloves were sacrificed for my seats, just plenty of Naugas.
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I think it's an eye of the beholder thing. The 1958 DKW I bought for $19.95 was that shade of yellow. I didn't particularly like it, but at age 17, $19.95 was made it a magic carpet ride.
My friends however, liked to refer to the shade as "baby sh#t yellow." Did wonders for my efforts to convince girls that it was a cool car.
@Michael Pickett posted:I think it's an eye of the beholder thing. The 1958 DKW I bought for $19.95 was that shade of yellow…
… My friends however, liked to refer to the shade as "baby sh#t yellow." Did wonders for my efforts to convince girls that it was a cool car.
My father-in-law used to call that color “kinderschiesse yellow”. And so it is.
Baseball Leather interior?
Heaven's no.
Being a loyal Canuck, the interior is made of used goalie pads...