The Color Orange

I painted my first car Orange (Dodge Challenger). About 80% of the people I met looked at it in shock and said "why did you paint it Orange?!?!". I even had police ask this as the first question when stopping me. The next year I painted it red and then the same people would come up and say "I liked the Orange better".

Originally Posted by bmussatti

Has there ever been a factory Orange color for the Boxster?

I love the color Orange. I want my next Porsche to be orange! I know there is a new 911 Carrera GT3 RS that is orange (with too much black lettering IMHO).

[NickCats]

Bmuss,

Somehow I just can't see you driving a Orange car ???

Nick

Originally Posted by NickCats

Bmuss,

Somehow I just can't see you driving a Orange car ???

Nick

Nick, I'll remind you of this statement when I show up someday at a Chicago PCA event in my orange 911 Carrera GT3 RS!!

FYI- My kids buy me stuff all the time that's orange for Father's Day, Birthday and Christmas. And most of the pictures they draw me have orange as the major color!!

[NickCats]

Originally Posted by bmussatti

Nick, I'll remind you of this statement when I show up someday at a Chicago PCA event in my orange 911 Carrera GT3 RS!!

FYI- My kids buy me stuff all the time that's orange for Father's Day, Birthday and Christmas. And most of the pictures they draw me have orange as the major color!!

Bmuss,

I will worship you if you show up in a Orange RS ( especially if you give me a ride ).

Just be sure to give me first dibs before you trade in that beautiful white Boxster of yours !

Nick

[Dr. Kill]

Originally Posted by cartagena

I painted my first car Orange (Dodge Challenger).

Nice car! Too bad you don't still have it - it would probably be worth a fortune.

Have you seen the new ones? I have already been prepping my wife for the purchase once the SRT variants hit the market...

[Grizzly]

Originally Posted by Dr. Kill

Have you seen the new ones? I have already been prepping my wife for the purchase once the SRT variants hit the market...

If the dealers don't go crazy, I think I'm going to get one as well. I had planned to buy the new Shelby Mustang but greed overtook the dealers. They're selling the cars for $25,000 over sticker. I refused to pay it.

[Dr. Kill]

Originally Posted by Grizzly

If the dealers don't go crazy, I think I'm going to get one as well. I had planned to buy the new Shelby Mustang but greed overtook the dealers. They're selling the cars for $25,000 over sticker. I refused to pay it.

yeah, 25k over is a bit rediculous for anything, and especially for a Mustang. Have you looked at one of the supercharged Saleen cars as an alternative? I know the horsepower numbers are lower than the GT500, but I seem to remember reading an article that said it was almost as fast and handled quite a bit better.

I expect the SRT prepped Challenger to sticker around $40 - 45k. If the dealer is asking $70k for the car, I would rather just buy a 911 instead.

[RandallNeighbour]

Dr. Kill, if you have the extra cash ($3500 or so?) you can order your new Porsche in any color or flavor you wish. Just send them a paint swatch and they'll match it.

Of course, getting rid of an orange boxster ain't gonna be easy, but hey, sounds like you'd keep an orange boxster a long long time and it wouldn't matter to you.

[Dr. Kill]

Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour

Dr. Kill, if you have the extra cash ($3500 or so?) you can order your new Porsche in any color or flavor you wish. Just send them a paint swatch and they'll match it.

Of course, getting rid of an orange boxster ain't gonna be easy, but hey, sounds like you'd keep an orange boxster a long long time and it wouldn't matter to you.

Yeah, see that is part of the appeal. I think my next Porsche needs to be a 911. I think it would make sense to pay a little extra to get it exactly like I want it, and then never sell it and use something else as my DD. My wife, God bless her, is very tolerant of my expensive hobbies, but at $85k for a car I don't need or use every day, it might prompt her to ask about it. I figure if I say it is going to be orange, it should help maintain her excitement levels and make the purchase easier for all of us.

[Grizzly]

Saleen builds a nice car. I used to have a SA-10. The point for me was having a new Shelby. This may be our last opportunity to own a real Shelby Mustang that Carroll was actually a part of (small part perhaps, but still a part). Unfortunately, the dealers went nuts, people are willing to pay up and real collectors, like me, get shut out.

I've always thought that brand loyalty and past history should count for something when limited cars come out. Ford should look and say, "Oh yeah, he's bought six new Mustangs from us and he currently has four vintage ones in his collection. Let's put him at the top of the list." Of course, they don't. Whoever has the most scratch gets the car. If it's a 19 year old dope dealer who runs it into a utility pole, so be it. As long as Ford and the dealer make their money.

I figure at a projected 7000 cars per year the exclusivity won't be there and they'll become completely attainable, but I wanted a very low serial number car. Didn't happen, so I'll move on.

[RandallNeighbour]

Grizz, Ford can't afford to play favorites these days. They're bleeding so badly financially that they have to be cash-driven in every decision they make... good or bad.

[Dr. Kill]

Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour

Grizz, Ford can't afford to play favorites these days. They're bleeding so badly financially that they have to be cash-driven in every decision they make... good or bad.

Yeah, it's a shame really. How many people are they laying off? Last I heard, the plan was somewhere around 60,000 between them and GM.

[Grizzly]

Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour

Grizz, Ford can't afford to play favorites these days. They're bleeding so badly financially that they have to be cash-driven in every decision they make... good or bad.

You know, I was willing to pay the $45,000+ sticker for their car because it's a limited vehicle. They pissed me off, so I'm probably going to buy the Dodge. In 2001, I wanted to buy my wife the new T-Bird. It was the same story, $8,500 over sticker. Two years later, they couldn't give those T-Birds away and eventually discontinued them. Right there, that's 85 grand that I wanted to give to Ford. They chose to lose it to other car companies. I bleed Ford Blue, but how many times do you think I'll allow them to reject me before I don't even consider Ford when choosing a car? If I live 40 more years, I'll likely buy 40 more cars (assuming Ellen and I can still drive into our 80s). That's 1.6 million in sales that may very well go elsewhere. And I'm just one customer.

...forest for the trees...

It was a big rusted out piece of body filler the day it went to the junkyard. Was probably crushed and made into coke cans.

I would not mind getting a new but I could never get it serviced where I live.

Originally Posted by Dr. Kill

Nice car! Too bad you don't still have it - it would probably be worth a fortune.

Have you seen the new ones? I have already been prepping my wife for the purchase once the SRT variants hit the market...