Exterior color

From The Porsche 914 Wiki

1 Introduction
2 Body Color and Year
3 Trim Color

Introduction

(to do: Discuss basic info about the colors. Maybe detail the types of paints used during that era, etc.)

Body Color and Year

The codes listed below are the various codes that are used in various places. These include the Karmann body tag, Porsche marketing literature from that era and Porsche Certificates of Authenticity (COA).

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Standard Colors

Color Name	German Color Name	VW Color Code	10 Color Code	V9 Color Code	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976
Black	Schwarz	L041	1010	A1		x	x	x	x	x	x
Berber Yellow	Berbergelb	L11D		B5						x
Canary Yellow	Zitronengelb	L11E	2910		x	x
Sun Yellow	Sonnengelb	L13K	3510	B3				x	x	x	x
Saturn Yellow	Saturngelb	L13M	2610	B2			x	x	x
Nepal Orange	Nepalorange	L20C		E5						x	x
Signal Orange	Signalorange	L20E	1410	E2	x	x	x	x	x
Tangerine	Blutorange	L21E	2310		x	x	x
Malaga Red	Malagarot	L30C		H5						x	x
Bahia Red	Bahiarot	L30E	1310	G2	l	x	x	x	x
Scarlet Red	Ibizarot	L31M		H3						x	x
Phoenix Red	Phönixrot	L32K	5910	G5				x	x
Laguna Blue	Lagunenblau	L50C		J1						x	x
Adriatic Blue	Adriablau	L50E	1610		x	x	x
Olympic Blue	Olympiablau	L51P	5810	J8				x	x
Irish Green	Irischgrün	L60E	1510		x	x	x
Willow Green	Weidengrün	L63E					l
Willow Green	Weidengrün	L63K	4310			x	e
Zambezi Green	Sambesigrün	L64K	3610	M7				x	x	x
Ravenna Green	Ravennagrün	L65K	3310	M5				x	x
Light Ivory	Hellelfenbein	L80E	1110	B8	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Palma Green Metallic	Palmagrünmetallic	L95K		Y1						x
Alaska Blue Metallic	Alaskablaumetallic	L96B	7810	X4				x	x
Silver Metallic	Silbermetallic	L96D	8010	Z2	x	x	x	x	x	e
Gemini Blue Metallic	Geminiblaumetallic	L96E	8610			x	x
Marathon Blue Metallic	Marathonblaumetallic	L96M	8910	X2				x	x
Viper Green Metallic	Vipergrünmetallic	L96N		Y5							x
Diamond Silver Metallic	Diamantsilbermetallic	L97A		Z4						l	x
Ancona Blue Metallic	Anconablaumetallic	L97B		X5						x	x
Red Metallic	Coloradometallic	L97D	8110		x
Gold Metallic	Goldmetallic	L97G					l
Gold Metallic	Goldmetallic	L97H				x	e
Green Metallic	Grünmetallic	L97P	8310		x
Lime Green Metallic	Limonengrün Metallic	L98B									x
Blue Metallic	Blaumetallic	L98P	8410		x
Delphi Green Metallic	Saturngelbmetallic	L99A	7710	W1				x	x
Copper Metallic	Tombacmetallic	L99K		W2						x

Key

x for whole model year
e for early portion of the model year
l for late portion of model year

Notes

Midyear changes are known for Willow Green, Gold Metallic, and Silver Metallic.
While L63E is shown in Porsche color chart documents as "Willow Green", at least one car with L63E appears to be Irish Green via COA and by color match.
It is possible L98B superceded L96N as a metallic green in 1976
The "10" and "V9" in the Porsche xx10 and xxV9 codes was used for Targa models. The 10 and V9 indicate a black roof.
The xxV9 code is only known to be used in marketing literature and may be in the factory Cardex records. It is often seen on COAs. It was never used on the Karmann badges to indicate body colour.
Black and all the metallic paints were premium options at extra cost.

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Limited Edition Models

U1V9 is the Black L041 body color and Sun Yellow L13K accent color.
U2V9 is the Light Ivory L80E body color and Phoenix Red L32K accent color.

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Special and Custom colors

Code 98, or sometimes L98, designated a custom colour choice selected from existing VW or Porsche paint colours. This was a higher cost option. No factory record was kept of the actual paint used. Code 99 designated a custom colour choice to match a customer supplied sample. This was a much higher cost option. Again, no factory records were kept. The only known car with this option is 9142430260. Unfortunately, on newer COA, Porsche confuses code 98 and code 99.

The following paints are Code 98 colors that are known to have been used.

Color Name	German Color Name	VW Color Code	10 Color Code
Aubergine	Aubergine		4010
Lilac	Flieder	L40M	6910
Sahara Beige		L80Z
Sepia Brown			7410
Rose Red	Fraise		3310
Conda Green			2610
Oak Green Metallic		Y4

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Karmann Body Tag and Certificates of Authenticity

914/4 models use the VW code on the Karmann body badge to indicated the paint code. 914/6 models up through 9141430399 use the first two digits from the Porsche xx10 code on the Karmann body badge to indicated the paint code. Due to repair shop confusion regarding the differences in the codes between the 914/4 and 914/6 models a technical bulletion issued in 1971 indicated that 914/6 models after 9141430399 will use the VW code just like the 914/4 models.

Cars that were sent back to the factory for repairs or modifications might have custom Karmann badges that have different(both in style and value) paint codes than was stamped on the original badge. One car is known to have been repainted in Lilac (Flieder) code 341, and this code is in yet another (parallel) paint code series.

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