THE COLOR REFERENCE / 1972 PORSCHE 911

Nine colors.
Then another twenty.

Porsche’s 1972 standard palette offered nine colors. The Special Colours folder added twenty more, from Black to Rose Red and Metallic Green. Together, the two documents show how much choice sat behind the familiar showroom chart.

THE FACTORY SELECTION

A second folder
changed the choice.

The standard folder put Light Ivory beside Signal Yellow, Sepia Brown, Tangerine, Bahia Red, Albert Blue, Light Yellow, Aubergine and Emerald Green. Nine choices already covered a considerable stretch of the spectrum. Black was elsewhere.

It appeared in Sonderfarben, translated on the same sheet as “Special Colours.” So did Irish Green, Olive, Gulf Blue and all five metallic finishes shown for the 911. A restrained black car and a luminous Metallic Green car could therefore begin with the same extra piece of sales literature.

The folder names the 911 T, E and S together, with separate ordering references for Coupé and Targa. These were named factory choices: a buyer could order something outside the standard palette without asking Porsche to invent a color.

Metallic Green provides the connection to the 1973 S in this archive. The earlier folder already calls it Grünmetallic, Metallic Green, Vert métallisé and Verde metallizzato, and gives it the ordering references 8383 and 8310.

A YEAR MAKES A DIFFERENCE

Albert and Oxford.

Albert Blue occupies the blue position in the multilingual 1972 standard folder. Its ordering references are 1818 for the Coupé and 1810 for the Targa. Oxford Blue appears separately in the special-color folder as Seeblau, with 3535 and 3510.

Open the multilingual 1973 standard folder and Oxford Blue is there instead, now accompanied by 4848 and 4810. The later factory paint matrix still records Albert Blue for both years. The matrix records availability by year; the sales folders show which colors were standard or special selections.

The 1973 Albert Blue entry retains its place in the factory record, while the 1972 directory below follows the standard and special-color folders for its classifications.

NINE STANDARD / TWENTY SPECIAL

The 1972 color directory.

Search the names and paint codes, including the Coupé and Targa ordering references. Open the compact table.

Swatches are illustrative screen colors; use a physical sample for paint matching.

29 colors shown.

Standard / 1972

Albert Blue

Albertblau

Factory paint code: 325
Finish: Solid
Coupé order · 1972: 1818
Targa order · 1972: 1810

Names & source references

French: bleu Albert
Italian: blu scuro

Porsche 1972 compilation, PDF page 3–4 (standard ordering tables and names). Paint codes: PDF page 19, 1972 column of the retrospective matrix printed in 2002.

Color	German name	Selection	Factory paint code	Coupé order	Targa order
Albert Blue	Albertblau	Standard	325	1818	1810
Aubergine	Aubergine	Standard	025	4040	4010
Bahia Red	Bahiarot	Standard	022	1313	1310
Emerald Green	Vipergrün	Standard	225	3838	3810
Light Ivory	Hellelfenbein	Standard	131	1111	1110
Light Yellow	Hellgelb	Standard	117	6262	6210
Sepia Brown	Sepiabraun	Standard	415	7474	7410
Signal Yellow	Signalgelb	Standard	114	7272	7210
Tangerine	Blutorange	Standard	018	2323	2310
Beige Gray	beigegrau	Special order	622	7575	7510
Black	schwarz	Special order	700	1010	1010
Gemini Metallic	geminimetallic	Special order	330	8686	8610
Glacier Blue	glasurblau	Special order	326	6666	6610
Gold Metallic	goldmetallic	Special order	133 / 140	8888	8810
Gulf Blue	gulfblau	Special order	328	3636	3610
Gulf Orange	gulforange	Special order	019	6161	6110
Irish Green	irischgrün	Special order	213	1515	1510
Ivory	elfenbein	Special order	132	4646	4610
Jade Green	hellgrün	Special order	227	6868	6810
Leaf Green	buschgrün	Special order	218	7777	7710
Lime Green	lindgrün	Special order	226	6767	6710
Metallic Blue	blaumetallic	Special order	324	8484	8410
Metallic Green	grünmetallic	Special order	224	8383	8310
Olive	olive	Special order	414	3939	3910
Oxford Blue	Seeblau	Special order	329	3535	3510
Rose Red	fraise	Special order	024	3333	3310
Royal Purple	flieder	Special order	341	6969	6910
Signal Orange	signalorange	Special order	116	1440	1410
Silver Metallic	silbermetallic	Special order	925 / 936	8080	8010

Nine colors.Then another twenty.

A second folderchanged the choice.

Albert and Oxford.

The 1972 color directory.

Albert Blue

Aubergine

Bahia Red

Emerald Green

Light Ivory

Light Yellow

Sepia Brown

Signal Yellow

Tangerine

Beige Gray

Black

Gemini Metallic

Glacier Blue

Gold Metallic

Gulf Blue

Gulf Orange

Irish Green

Ivory

Jade Green

Leaf Green

Lime Green

Metallic Blue

Metallic Green

Olive

Oxford Blue

Rose Red

Royal Purple

Signal Orange

Silver Metallic

One color,several references.

Follow the folders.

Nine colors.
Then another twenty.

A second folder
changed the choice.

One color,
several references.