Since I don’t know what an ordinary Swiss plate looks like, I didn’t notice until I read your comment.
‘91169’ – not tacky but sort of low-key amusing because it looks just like a random string of numbers.
Those are normal Geneva, Switzerland license plates. Two digit city code and then up to five numerals. Presumably the owner of the car convinced whoever was assigned that number combination to sell them or it’s possible to request a particular sequence. I’m pretty sure you can’t actually do “vanity” plates in Switzerland as you can in the US.
The other cars at the light have the same plates just with a different (random) sequence.
Yes, but only to those of us who know what this car is. A vast majority don’t. So, the owner is signalling to just a handful of drivers, and yes – a lot of those people probably think the owner is tacky.
I suspect the color isn’t correct? I’ve never seen that decade 911 in that color. Was it just a German color?
I guess I just suspect John Q. Public doesn’t know or care what that car is either way. You’d be surprised how few folks actually care about cars beyond us freaks.
Lovely car, though! I forgot to mention. That color sure looks period and I know Porsche offered a wide array of colors back then. My guess is it’s correct. Also, who would go with a custom color respray on one of these?!
No they dont care, you only have to see what they drive, Lots of car crazy people get a car resrayed non factory colours to personalize them especially if its been stripped down and restored.
As a small volume carmaker, Porsche was always willing to paint cars to match a customer’s special request color sample. I think the “Special Wishes” Dept still does.
The personalized plate doesn’t bother me at all. Not like those redundant aftermarket license plate frames, usually gold-toned, which say Lexus or BMW or Infiniti in some generic script, usually positioned a few inches away from the manufacturer’s own badging. Very popular in the US. But on this particular 911 my OCD would be triggered by the slightly off-kilter angle of the right side reflector. And I do recall 911’s or more often 912’s, in something like this color back in the day.
That is indeed a factory color. My dad had a ’73 911 back in 1985 that was the exact same color. I drove many imaginary miles in that car with is sitting static in the garage.
Is the driver looking at a laptop? Isn’t a phone enough?
These early Porches didn’t impress me much when I was younger, I would have preferred a Vette. Now I find them very attractive, unfortunately so does every collector/enthusiast and pricing reflects that fact. Yes, I also hate those redundant marque license frames. I much preferred (?) those “My other car is a… fill in the blank, Porsche, Vette, airplane, whatever.
Inspector Steve Keller drove a 1973 Porsche 911S in The Streets of San Francisco. In this rear view pic, the driver of this subject 911S could pass for actor Michael Douglas circa 1973.
Am I the only one that finds those custom, vanity plates with the car model and the year tacky? Gross
Since I don’t know what an ordinary Swiss plate looks like, I didn’t notice until I read your comment.
‘91169’ – not tacky but sort of low-key amusing because it looks just like a random string of numbers.
Those are normal Geneva, Switzerland license plates. Two digit city code and then up to five numerals. Presumably the owner of the car convinced whoever was assigned that number combination to sell them or it’s possible to request a particular sequence. I’m pretty sure you can’t actually do “vanity” plates in Switzerland as you can in the US.
The other cars at the light have the same plates just with a different (random) sequence.
Austria is only European country to allow the vanity plates of your choice as long as it ends with 1.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Austria#Personalised_plates
Yes, but only to those of us who know what this car is. A vast majority don’t. So, the owner is signalling to just a handful of drivers, and yes – a lot of those people probably think the owner is tacky.
I suspect the color isn’t correct? I’ve never seen that decade 911 in that color. Was it just a German color?
I guess I just suspect John Q. Public doesn’t know or care what that car is either way. You’d be surprised how few folks actually care about cars beyond us freaks.
Lovely car, though! I forgot to mention. That color sure looks period and I know Porsche offered a wide array of colors back then. My guess is it’s correct. Also, who would go with a custom color respray on one of these?!
No they dont care, you only have to see what they drive, Lots of car crazy people get a car resrayed non factory colours to personalize them especially if its been stripped down and restored.
It’s Bahama Yellow. We used to call it “School Bus Yellow”. It was very popular back then.
That color is so late ‘60s/early ‘70s. There were all sorts of yellows, oranges, bronzes and browns back then, that were very era-specific.
As a small volume carmaker, Porsche was always willing to paint cars to match a customer’s special request color sample. I think the “Special Wishes” Dept still does.
The personalized plate doesn’t bother me at all. Not like those redundant aftermarket license plate frames, usually gold-toned, which say Lexus or BMW or Infiniti in some generic script, usually positioned a few inches away from the manufacturer’s own badging. Very popular in the US. But on this particular 911 my OCD would be triggered by the slightly off-kilter angle of the right side reflector. And I do recall 911’s or more often 912’s, in something like this color back in the day.
That is indeed a factory color. My dad had a ’73 911 back in 1985 that was the exact same color. I drove many imaginary miles in that car with is sitting static in the garage.
Bahama Yellow. Aka “School bus yellow.
Is the driver looking at a laptop? Isn’t a phone enough?
These early Porches didn’t impress me much when I was younger, I would have preferred a Vette. Now I find them very attractive, unfortunately so does every collector/enthusiast and pricing reflects that fact. Yes, I also hate those redundant marque license frames. I much preferred (?) those “My other car is a… fill in the blank, Porsche, Vette, airplane, whatever.
No, that’s the back of a Peugeot 🙂
Inspector Steve Keller drove a 1973 Porsche 911S in The Streets of San Francisco. In this rear view pic, the driver of this subject 911S could pass for actor Michael Douglas circa 1973.
I don’t care what kind of a license plate it has, I’d take it in a heartbeat!