Colour Opinion?

[Guest]

As you all know looking for my first 944. There is one for sale up in my neck of the woods. I know the guy that owns it its a well looked after car. Only thing is its in champagne gold metallic. Not sure about the colour. Does anyone have any pics in this colour with nice wheels so i can make a decision.? what does everyone think about this colour?

cheers

 

[sawood12]

My advice would be if the car is in pukka condition with a good history then colour is secondry. If you are that bothered about it you can get a respray for about £2k which is a drop in the ocean to how much it could cost to put right if you were to buy a pup. In terms of the colour I actually like the champagn gold colour - it's sort of silver with a very subtle gold tinge to it.

 

[Fen]

It's a strange one I think. My initial reaction would be that I don't like it, but several people I know have it (Hilux, PRJ, Nick F) and when I see it for real it looks really good. It's more fashionable than white and even red at the moment as well. In any case, Scott is right and choosing the colour is a luxury that is best disregarded. If the car is a good one then buy it as you might have to wait a long time for an equally good one to come up in the colour you really want. The other way of doing it is not to be in a rush; personally I keep an eye open in case a nice Turbo cab comes up in Cobalt blue or Titanium, but I'm not too bothered if I never get one.

 

[TTM]

That colour can be very nice if it's in excellent condition along with the bodywork. Along with a silver rose car any little blemish will ruin the overall good look. These light metallic colours really have to be shiny.

 

[Hilux]

Does anyone have any pics in this colour

 

[sbloxxy]

My brother's got a Champagne Gold Metallic 944 and he's just had a complete glass-out respray. Car looks fantastic but just to re-iterate what previous posters have said, the body and paint condition has got to be really good because this colour shows up every little blemish. Its also next to impossible to carry out localised spray repairs - a pig to colour match accurately.
Another point to bear in mind is that certain colours look different with different alloys...

 

[Diver944]

I've always thought this colour was a little understated for a Porsche, but when I first saw Nick Fearns as he prepped it for the Highclere Concours a few years ago it was absolutely stunning. I've never seen one of these colours with anything other than the standard wheels so I don't know how it would look with some 17 inchers.

Again - if the car really is in excellent order then colour is the least of your worries. We could soon bling it up with some vinyl graphics and 22" Cayenne spinners if you'd like []

 

[John Sims]

ORIGINAL: Diver944

......Again - if the car really is in excellent order then colour is the least of your worries. ........

Unless it is Silver Rose Pink [] []

 

[Diver944]

TBH I like the Silver Rose pink, it's the matching studio check interior that has always put me off. A Silver Rose with soft ruffled grey leather interior would be just about spot on in my book []

Nearly as good as black and linen []

 

[Fen]

I don't like the Silver Rose pink; it looks like dirty silver to me, but the Zermatt or Linen I think does look good when it's clean and shiny. It would look fantastic with dark grey wheel centres and polished rims.

 

[PRJ]

ORIGINAL: Fen

but the Zermatt or Linen I think does look good when it's clean and shiny. It would look fantastic with dark grey wheel centres and polished rims.

Still waiting for an appropriate set of Cup1s/2s to come up and then that's the precise combo I'll go for. Once I've adulterated the car to that extent, I may even then head down the route of clear indicator lenses, which I promised myself I'd never do. I've always thought that they're 80's cars so why try to update the look? - but too much time spent on here listening to you lot is beginning to change my perspective...

 

[Fen]

I'm a bit biased on polished rims with grey centres...

 

[PRJ]

That makes it much less mincy it has to be said. Actually I keep switching back to the pic and it looks better and better each time. Assume you're on the hunt for some clear repeaters and she'll be losing some height too at some point []

 

[Fen]

I guess it might lose some height, but bizarrely I feel much like you do about the orange side repeaters and those horrible reflectors. I'm not sure about that tree growing out of it either []

Here's one where you can see the car.

Having had an MX5 for 3 months now I have become a wheel weight obsessive. The new wheels (Rota J.SPL) are the lightest made by Rota, who already make light wheels. They weigh 4.8Kg each against 11kg for the ones from Mille Miglia that Mazda saddled the Classic special edition with from new.

 

[TTM]

While at the restaurant tonight I spotted a new MX5 passing by - the new headlight design is terrible ... You're not plotting to fit 924 CGT-style headlights on yours, are you Fen ? [8D]

 

[Fen]

Absolutely not! I was only ever going to buy one of the original model and I don't intend to change much from standard. I already have one money-pit, after all.

 

[mik_ok]

They certainly look the part Fen. [8D] Is the reduction in unsprung weight noticable?

 

[Fen]

Very noticeable, not so much in handling as in feedback; you get a lot more information about the road surface though the steering and even the rear wheels seem to transmit more through the body. To be fair I think you could argue it's harsher because of that.

I bet I'd feel a lot more difference if I were to go back to the original wheels (I can't as the tyres have been swapped across) because I always find it easier to detect a loss in quality/performance etc. than a gain. Is that the same for everyone? I first noticed it choosing a hi-fi when I was about 17.

 

[Guest]

Here is a pic of the car im looking at. Wheels look a bit ding but here it is?

Unsure about the age because it will be my daily driver and dont want it to cause problems

What do you think?

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/stev580/media.jpg

117,000 miles, The car is a 2+2 with a 2.5 litre and 117k miles recorded, low mileage for year and car, 1 yr MOT May 07, in a champagne gold metallic with half leather black interior. The car has been maintained to a very high standard mechanically and runs beautifully. The car has had a full respray and is in excellent condition. The galvanised bodywork maintains the car in a rust free condition. The car benefits from cheap classic insurance. £2,500. o.n.o

 

[Fen]

It looks like it's one of the very last square dash cars. I've never had one of them, but they look a lot more dated inside than the oval dash models. Other than that it sounds OK from the description. I'm always wary of resprayed cars insofar as a very recent respray can cover a multitude of sins, many of which will become apparent quite quickly, but if it was repainted a year or more ago that's less of a concern.

£2,500 should be plenty to have a wide choice of 2.5 NA cars and personally I'd want an oval dash version it it was my money.