How Bout this color on a Spyder ?

Oh.....Here's the Photos

It’s a little bold for me, but I like it.  If you go that route you can get preferred parking!

Uhhhh, for a Spyder?  Probably not a good idea.

Bold may be the word. I like the color but it's a little scary. Then again, you never know until you get it on the car.  I just can't bring myself up to another silver Spyder....Bruce

Maybe not, but a color like that will scream “kitcar” IMHO.

I don't know that any were that color in period, but I think it would work well. There was one yellow one (for the bleepin' blinkin' bloody Belgians) which was since painted silver.* Two shades of blau—light and lighter. One was Swiss red (which, surprisingly, doesn't work, to my eyes). The British teams (green the official color) tended not to get Porsches for some reason.

As race cars, these babies got repainted a lot: Repainted, re-bodied, re-powered, re-just-about-everything'd. I'd be frankly shocked if there was never a green "original" 550 RS screaming up some forested Scottish hill or around Goodwood in the years before they became "iconic" and fit only for preservation or restoration to "precisely original specifications."

I like this color and think it'd look great on a Spyder, just as it does on a 911. But I like green generally.

The other great thing about going green is it'll prevent you emerging from the pub and trying to drive away in the wrong car.

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*After being re-bodied in fiberglass as a coupe and then re-rebodied back to aluminum Spyder status.

I like it on the Camaro.  On a Spyder though?

In my early days I was not yet an executive for a fortune 500 company managing a 1,000 person sales force for a division of Pfizer out of NYC ---I started work with DuPont Automotive finishes In Charlotte, NC.  We shipped automotive refinishing materials to body shops and manufacturers of trucks, school buses, etc all over the Southeast.  Prior to that stint I thought Manual Labor was an hispanic guy, but quickly found out what it truly was when unloading those boxcars of paint arriving at the distribution center---not to mention working at New Dixie Truck Lines during this same time handling freight from 7 pm until midnight 4 evenings a week ---but I digress.  We  stocked a few thousand colors plus custom mixed additional ones.  Back then the #1 car color was white which came in many shades of white ---but white was #1.  As I remember the two least favorite colors based on shipments were brown and green, which were tied for least favorite.  (Same for men's suits then and today.)

I believe that the #1 car color today consists of the various hues of silver metallic but from my own observations I'd say that brown and green are still the least popular colors.  The "june bug" green shades are my personal least favorite.  

But----whoever spends the money is certainly entitled to whatever color they like.

Just my 2 centavos.

I have no problem with green on a Spyder, but I think it would look better in a more subdued shade.  British Racing Green would be gorgeous, as would some lighter shades.  Lime green is just a bit too much to me.

The really obnoxious colors look great on a new supercar, or pretty much anything down in South America.

You don't live there. You're not 21 either. 

IMHO, Spyders look great in white, black, or silver. French blue(and Blue Angel blue) get a pass as exceptions that work. Red, yellow, and Green, not so much.

But hey, it's your car.

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I'd add outrageous 'murican muscle cars (Hellcat, Demon, GTanything, ZL1) to that list.

As Danny says, it it your car-- and I always used to tell my kids they were free to do what they wanted, as long as I was free to make fun of them for it.

Ignore all of us and do what you want.

Great color for a Ninja.  But it is your car and if you like it......

Can you get it in bass-boat metalflake?

edsnova posted:

 

I believe Porsche calls the bottom color Viper Green. 

There’s also Voodoo Blue:

That darker green looks a fair amount like British Racing Green.  It looks darned nice on that Spyder; nicer than I thought it would in fact.

Green is my favorite color. The forest green or British green do look pretty good on the Spyder.  Thanks for posting those pics..................Bruce

aircooled posted:

Green is my favorite color. The forest green or British green do look pretty good on the Spyder.  Thanks for posting those pics..................Bruce

I’m a big fan of green as well (obviously).  That said, I am more of a fan of a period-correct green for the Spyder, like a Auratium Green or a Stone Grey (which I feel has green undertones)  I think these colors could look great on a Spyder, especially with white meatballs on the doors  

my favorite color on the Spyder is the blue of @arajani and @edsnova  followed closely by the silver.  I recently say a Spyder in primer and actually loved the muted grey as well.  If I ever built a Spyder and it wasn’t blue, I’d definitely do it matte grey or aluminum