Opal Metallic

Opal Metallic (Opal-met., code 463) is a warm, sandy gold-beige metallic that reads as a muted champagne with a faint greenish or brownish warmth — closer to the iridescent quality of the opal gemstone for which it is named than to the cooler, purer neutrality of platinum or silver metallics. The hex reveals a warm, golden-tan hue that sits between champagne and dark ivory, giving it the soft luminosity of aged pearl or polished bone in direct light. The color appeared across the G-body 911 and transaxle models at various points in the late 1970s through early 1980s, and its code 463 connects it to the VW Group palette of that period. Rennbow places it in the three-paint-can category, indicating genuine but not extreme rarity — a color that was available in reasonable quantities but not widely chosen relative to silvers, blacks, and reds of the same era. As a warm-beige metallic it shares character with Casablanca Beige and similar earthy neutrals from the period, appealing to a buyer who wanted warmth without the assertiveness of brown or the formality of platinum.