[jeff968]

I never totally understood how these rare cars worked but now I do so I thought I would share my findings. As you know, for $2,498 Porsche would paint your 968 any color you wanted. There were only 7 968 cabs and 7 968 coupes like this. Well, 1 showed up on eBay this week. At first, it looked like just another cab but I checked the registry and found that it was a color to sample car. Now, what is interesting is the car is Amazon Green, a somewhat popular color on the 968 cab with 100 produced between 92-94.5. Someone must have liked it, visited the dealer to order one in late 94 and found that the color was no longer available so they ordered it as a color to sample. You'll note in the pictures the Amazon outside and the 993 seats clearly indicating the late version 968, produced after the Amazon was no longer a metallic paint offering. I spoke to the seller who was able to pull the Amazon paint name and code from the small silver sticker in the engine compartment but if you look at the vehicle information label in the maintenance manual, it reads 99 for the paint code which is color to sample.

I thought it was interesting, Jeff

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...sid=p2759.l1259

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[flash]

yeah - lots of odd stuff with these cars - so many of them are out of the "norm"

i still can't get over the ones that were dealer color changes - i guess the buyer figured they didn't want to wait for a special order car

i guess with a low production run car things like this are more frequent

though i am just about to do the same kind of thing with a mercedes - we want a specific color combination, and are probably going to have a car changed to make that happen

people want what they want

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[Fox944]

Jeff, Could you list the 14 Color to Sample cars and what color they were painted? Aside from this Convertible and the 1 of 1 Summer Yellow Coupe, what else is out there?

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[jeff968]

"i still can't get over the ones that were dealer color changes - i guess the buyer figured they didn't want to wait for a special order car"

I don't think anyone ever truely changed the color of a 968, especially a dealer. there is just too much hidden color. The door jams, engine compartment, gutters, floors, wheel houses, ect, color everywhere. To truely change a color you would have to completely strip the car. i do know of a black coupe that was painted wimbledon at the dealer when new but when you popped the hood, you saw black. I'm sure it looked like garbage years later as they can never get the jams to hold up well without a complete stripdown and paint.

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[flash]

i've seen 3 so far that were paint changed, and a half dozen that were interior changed - i can't say i liked the paint change, and they all showed the things you listed - looks fine from the outside, but once you open it up, it shows - granted the 3 i've seen were from one silver to another silver and silver to grey, so the combination didn't look bad, but still it didn't match

the interior swaps looked fine

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[madridcab]

My ´95 993 is Color to Sample, but the color is Wimbledon Green, which I believe may have been available on the ´94 993, certainly was available on late 964's and early 968's, so seems the Color to sample option was used to carry over discontinued colors.

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[jeff968]

" so seems the Color to sample option was used to carry over discontinued colors."

True, and I think that is the most popular reason it is used (I saw an older Porsche with a color i just loved) but you could get any color.

Dino, from the data I have they are all just code 99s and code 98s. I may have to contact PCNA to see if they can tell me eaxctly what color they are. On the cab in question, the guy did not know what color it was. i had him find the little silver sticker next to the fuse box and sure enough, it read Amazon green but you would never know from the code 99 listed on the vehicle information sticker. I know 2 of the other C2S cars, one is a 93 coupe painted 92 tahoe blue and 1 of the other 94 cabs is painted 92 violet blue metallic (purple).
Jeff

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[Fox944]

Jeff, would nice to figure it all out. So we know 4 or 5 color 2 sample cars so far.

94 Cab: Amazon Green
93 Coupe: Tahoe Blue
94 Cab: Violet Blue metallic
95 Coupe: Summer Yellow (70's Shade)

And what about the '93 U.S. Spec Riviera Blue Cab at the Porsche Museum? I recall this being a C2S car in Riviera Blue before Riviera Blue was offered as an option. Is this correct?

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[jeff968]

Dino,
Correct, that is another one (and the only code 98 NA cab produced). So that is 5. And that is a weird one as Riviera showed up in late 94 so we can't explain the car with the "I saw porsche in this color and want my new 968 in that color and I'm willing to pay $2500 for it" story. I don't think Riviera showed up officially until late 94.
Jeff

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