Why would Chevrolet restrict the LS-6?

[442w30]

Notice color availability does not include the LS-6 - why?

[SS427]

Funny thing is, there is at least one Citrus Green LS6's that is very well known.

[Tracker1]

What a bizarre exclusion

[resto4u]

Not regular RPO colors for LS-6 but i would think you could get around that with special paint order. Maybe those colors were only available at plants that made fullsize and chevelles. were LS-6 CHEVELLES built at all the plants chevelles were built?

[SS69chevelle]

perhaps they used cheap paint and the LS6 went too fast and caused it to prematurely peel off the car....

[Tracker1]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SS69chevelle</div><div class="ubbcode-body">perhaps they used cheap paint and the LS6 went too fast and caused it to prematurely peel off the car.... </div></div>

Perhaps [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] Or maybe they didn't want their highest-horsepower rocket ship looking like a fridge on display at Sears, in basically the same colors. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/shocked.gif[/img]

[Charley Lillard]

My guess would be the design people didn't think those colors looked hipo enough for the image they were trying to project.

[SS427]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: resto4u</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> were LS-6 CHEVELLES built at all the plants chevelles were built? </div></div>

With two exceptions, Oshawa did not build any solid lifter cars (LS6) and convertibles were only built at the Baltimore, Van Nuys and Leeds plants.

[427TJ]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Charley Lillard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My guess would be the design people didn't think those colors looked hipo enough for the image they were trying to project. </div></div>

Or the marketing guys. Or both.

[mockingbird812]

Rick - as I recall the TT on that CG LS6 had &quot;43 43&quot;. Do you remember that? I also recall that the car was supposedly an original paint car but had been taken off the frame to restore all else.