1969 Camaro Z/28 w/Special Order Paint

[Keith Seymore]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bergy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I know that at the St. Louis Assembly plant the special order paint was prepared in small pressure pots and hand trucked to the paint line. It would be pure coincidence if the small batch matched any color chip. Does someone actually think that the <span style="text-decoration: underline">PRODUCTION</span> process included spraying test panels, running them through the oven, &amp; checking them against paint chips? </div></div>

Corvette or truck?

If the Corvette front clip was painted along with the body then it certainly was less critical. But in any instance where the front end was painted remotely (like trucks) they had to match the chip. In Flint the cabs were painted at one end of the facility and front end sheet metal at the other end (and on a separate floor). Buicks bodies were built on the north side of Flint and trucked to the south side of Flint (on open carriers) for final assembly. There had to be a common verifiable standard.

The production process absolutely includes matching to chips. When we installed the Behr turbine bell system in Flint the electrostatic charge in the body took all of the metal flake particles and aligned them in a uniform pattern, changing the final effect. We had to reinstall reciprocating traditional spray guns to spray metallic paints so that they would match the chip (which wasn't an inexpensive undertaking).

K