This Porsche collection revolves around a peculiar color.
Porsche boasts a long history of over 75 years, and along with that, its sports cars over the decades have been adorned in a veritable rainbow of colors. That incredible spectrum has come together to form Porsche’s Paint to Sample library of colors that customers can access if they want a Porsche with a unique edge, an homage to a personal story, a historical reference, or all of these things at once.
Sepia Brown is one of those colors, and Porsche collector and racer Richard Raimist began his love for Porsche with a 911 T Targa painted in it. With his collection housed in Jupiter, Florida, three of Raimist’s seven total Porsches are finished in Sepia Brown, the 911 T Targa, along with two much newer examples of Porsches: a 718 Spyder RS, and a 992-generation 911 Targa 4 GTS. Yet still, the family is growing, with Raimist planning to add a 718 Cayman GT4 RS in Sepia Brown to the collection.
He first purchased the 911 T Targa in Sepia brown when he lived in Los Angeles in 1973, when he was just 20 years old, with the car still in transit to the US from Germany. His Targa is one of just 477 examples like it that were painted in the color, which he says was especially unusual in Los Angeles at the time. Over the decades, his love for Porsche only grew as he took up racing with the PCA club racing series, took part in the 24 Hours of Daytona, and collected more cars, even snagging a third place finish at Laguna Seca.
Now retired from racing, Raimist is now a team head, and his still-growing collection of Sepia Brown Porsches have become local celebrities in Jupiter. With over 50 years of love for Porsche and an incredible collection with a captivating story, Richard Raimist’s passion for Porsche is far from done.
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