View Full Version : Strange color combination
Is this for real? Orange with green interior?????
http://www.jr56.com/69z28rs/tag.jpg
It is a RS '69 Z28 with a strange color combination.
DarrenX33
12-10-2004, 12:54 AM
Why the hell would someone fake that color combo? Oooh! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
All American Racer
12-10-2004, 01:49 AM
I don't remember where I saw it but some dealer had a silver Nova with a bright red interior. I love Cortez silver but that interior was hard to stomach. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif
Pantera
12-10-2004, 02:40 AM
sometimes dealers would make a mistake when they ordered a car.
over the years I have owned a few that stick in my mind.
69 Gold vette with dark green interior
68 burnt orange Vette with tobaco (dark Brown) interior
Black Olds with a tan interior.
They sound worse than they actually look.
Pantera
At the ACES Chevelle-Abration in Tenn.,I took pictures of a 1970 Cortez silver/red interior Chevelle.
Once I had them developed,...I burned them. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif
Back in the summer I sold a 69Z with gold body, brown top and green interior. I could not imagine someone ordering the car with those color combos.
firstgenaddict
12-10-2004, 11:36 PM
If I am not mistaken there is a 69 COPO Camaro that is Olympic Gold with Green Interior.
IMO Cortez Silver with Red interior is a great Color Combo. Also like the 66 Vette with Silver pearl over red leather.
DarrenX33
12-10-2004, 11:40 PM
[ QUOTE ]
Back in the summer I sold a 69Z with gold body, brown top and green interior. I could not imagine someone ordering the car with those color combos.
[/ QUOTE ]
A car matching this description was at Vettefest. I have also seen it at Super Chevy Indy. An RSZ. Yours?
No, i sold the car to a guy in S.C. it needed restoring. I wish now i would have kept it. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
firstgenaddict
12-10-2004, 11:56 PM
Where in SC, I live in Greenville. (The upper northwest corner) about 15 miles from the BMW plant.
DarrenX33
12-10-2004, 11:59 PM
I know it's in my books but was Hugger Orange with green guts even possible on the order form?
Not sure exactly, but I do remeber the guy mentioning greenville. This guy had his own body shop.
COPO_Anders
12-11-2004, 12:08 PM
I recently sold my -69 Nova. It was an Olympic Gold car with light green interior.
Anders
Bill Pritchard
12-11-2004, 10:53 PM
[ QUOTE ]
I know it's in my books but was Hugger Orange with green guts even possible on the order form?
[/ QUOTE ]
Not sure, Darren, but things got done back then that one would think might not be possible. As Jim Mattison has said, some GM cars even got painted Mopar Hi-Impact colors http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif
DarrenX33
12-12-2004, 06:31 AM
No doubt Bill. And this was a case of it as the color and trim sheet lists the choices of black and white interiors only. Orange houndstooth was obviously next to come.
That car must have been the product of a bunch of workers having fun. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif
Kurt S
12-12-2004, 09:10 AM
Hate to say, but, other than Ander's Nova, none of those combos sound real funky or unusual.
Dozen 69's in Silver with Red guts in the db.
15 Gold with dk green guts.
Black with tan guts is still available today!
I have to say I think almost any non-black interior is cool/different/interesting.
A customer could get nearly ANY interior color he wanted back then.Just like the exterior paint schemes,those interior color choices in the dealer albums were merely popular recommended suggestions,not "Mandatory take it or leave it decisions".
Charley Lillard
12-12-2004, 06:18 PM
Silver with red guts was a common color combo in Mercedes. Many Gullwing cars were that way in the 50's.
ANDY M
12-12-2004, 06:46 PM
A guy in our club here has an '80 Z/28 Black with Silver vinyl interior. He's the original owner. Disco Rules!
Andy
firstgenaddict
12-13-2004, 09:35 PM
Just remembered I had a Silver 79 Z-28 with Carmine (Red) Guts. That was a while ago.
DarrenX33
12-13-2004, 11:28 PM
A unique combo to say the least.
The Great Pumpkin (http://www.camaroheaven.net/Gallery/1969_Z-28_Tuxedo_Black/index.html)
Kurt S
12-14-2004, 02:35 AM
51-A 718: Blue, white top, red interior. A real car, aka The Flag. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Spotted in a car corral.
1970 SS Chevelle painted resale red w/black interior..
Cowl tag broadcasted original combo of Code 50 Trim 782 & HH top.
Decodes as Gobi Beige paint-Green cloth bench-Dark Gold Vinyl top,with Black band Aid ZL-2 stripes. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
DarrenX33
12-14-2004, 03:11 AM
Kurt that sounds cool. Any pictures of that car??
Belair62
12-14-2004, 03:31 AM
Rick...that sounds awful.
Kurt S
12-14-2004, 11:13 AM
Sorry, I don't have any pics of The Flag. Not sure if it still survives....
Bill Pritchard
12-15-2004, 09:47 PM
I remember years ago there was a well documented Mopar - I think it was a 70 Challenger - that was the most God-awful color combo you could imagine. I'm thinking it was Plum Crazy purple with a yellow tail stripe http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
That 70 Chevelle that Rick just mentioned wouldn't be far behind it, though http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
RYCKR69
12-16-2004, 12:51 AM
I saw a early 70's mopar at Reno about 10 yrs ago,plum crazy with the flower print vinyl top http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif- what were they thinking?
olredalert
12-16-2004, 04:54 AM
--------Two quick color combo mistakes I remember. The first one that was dealer induced was a black 69 L89 Corvette convert with a paisley covered hardtop. The second was factory produced and was a 70 W30 442 in the Olds version of Autumn Gold with a green bench seat interior. Both very odd vehicles. I saw the Vette brand new at a Chevy dealer on the east side of Columbus Ohio in the service department with the heads off. It had dropped a seat backing off the truck. I was there to buy it but sort of fell out of lust when I saw it with that top and the heads off. It took me a long time to warm up to aluminum heads after that!!!!!!..........Bill S
vBulletin® v3.8.11, Copyright ©2000-2025, vBulletin Solutions Inc.