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YOUR RESEARCHCan someone explain the ?orange bumper? thing?
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I�ve always thought that different colored bumpers and carbon fiber hoods make a car look like it has been wrecked and replaced with junkyard parts.
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I swear I have a Magnus matchbox that is sort of like that but a silver body and red bumpers. Talk about an influencer.
I like that Porsche is getting back into wild paint schemes like these.
This is not a Porsche paint. The car was built by a well regarded tuner, SharkWorks. It started out as a white car. Check out the build -
https://www.sharkwerks.com/2008-shar...-magnus-walker
Yeah, I�ve seen some random pictures of silver and white 911s (mostly air cooled era), with either a red or orange front bumper. Seems to be a thing, but I don�t know where started.
The red/orange bumpers reference the factory race cars of the 70s/80s. Many which were either white or silver and wore martini livery with a vibrant red bumper.
I'm on Dharn55 band wagon, "thinking the owner was too cheap to paint" but after Mowflow's brief history rundown "I learned me something today" folks. With that being the case this color scheme has grown on me and I think the Orange, white and silver works. It looks hot, I like it. Maybe toss a few of those 1950's flames behind the orange front bumper, to increase the appearance of speed!
I've also heard it said that the red bumpers were to make it easier for other cars to see them trying to overtake. Pretty hard to deny you were blocking on purpose if you could definitely see them. Similar to the reasoning for yellow headlights to distinguish between GT classes in the same race when viewed in the rear view mirror.
It also helped the guy/gall on the pitwall to identify its car and show the pitboard at the right time when it came driving down the straight, I believe.
Would need to be different colours for cars with different numbers and I'm not sure that is true for the Porsches but I've seen it on many BMW works touring cars where top of windscreens had different colours (E30 M3 in DTM) or the livery on the white cars was either blue or red (E36 super touring cars)
I�ve always thought that different colored bumpers and carbon fiber hoods make a car look like it has been wrecked and replaced with junkyard parts.
I know the history and reasoning, but it still looks like a wrecked car to me.
I've always liked that style paint, and the Magnus/Sharkworks build is incredible.
That said, I'm not brave enough to pull off a look like that on a daily driver but have contemplated a more subdued sort of paint scheme.
