1969 Camaro Z/28 w/Special Order Paint

[70 copo]

Lighting, angles, and dirt will change the appearance of a color in a photo.

I gotta say the roof comparison with the chip is a deal sealer.

[iluv69s]

can you put the chip of EO and cortez silver against the roof without the white borders??? id be interested to see the difference then. Looks like the pics of the car now are under fluorescent lights... any pics of the car now in outdoor lighting???

[William]

What a joke. Here's some more paint chips for you. Any of these look real?

In case you didn't notice the finish of the car as restored doesn't match the OE paint in the roof photo.

The only "deal sealer" is the people who actually saw the car.

[70 copo]

BTW... Norwood Chevrolet side inspectors used paint chips to accept bodies from Fisher Body. Paint in smaller batches at Fisher Body was also hand measured and tinted by eye to a match with a chip.

[cook_dw]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: iluv69s</div><div class="ubbcode-body">can you put the chip of EO and cortez silver against the roof without the white borders??? id be interested to see the difference then. Looks like the pics of the car now are under fluorescent lights... any pics of the car now in outdoor lighting??? </div></div>



<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 70 copo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">BTW... Norwood Chevrolet side inspectors used paint chips to accept bodies from Fisher Body. Paint in smaller batches at Fisher Body was also hand measured and tinted by eye to a match with a chip. </div></div>


&quot;What a joke..&quot; Everyone knows these were cookie cutter and built by machines..!!.. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[Keith Seymore]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: cook_dw</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: iluv69s</div><div class="ubbcode-body">can you put the chip of EO and cortez silver against the roof without the white borders??? id be interested to see the difference then. Looks like the pics of the car now are under fluorescent lights... any pics of the car now in outdoor lighting??? </div></div>



<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 70 copo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">BTW... Norwood Chevrolet side inspectors used paint chips to accept bodies from Fisher Body. Paint in smaller batches at Fisher Body was also hand measured and tinted by eye to a match with a chip. </div></div>


&quot;What a joke..&quot; Everyone knows these were cookie cutter and built by machines..!!.. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img] </div></div>

That was especially critical for those processes where the front clip was painted in a separate part of the plant (or in a separate plant on the other side of town) and were expected to match the body. Everything has to match the chip.

Otherwise it wouldn't matter.

K

[70 copo]

Correct on all points. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[clem]

give it up as you and jerry have been caught in a big screw up. there no one in his right mind can come up with a good reason for me to claim a color the car was not. you guys are just trying to defend the indefensible.

[m22mike]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: clem</div><div class="ubbcode-body">give it up as you and jerry have been caught in a big screw up. there no one in his right mind can come up with a good reason for me to claim a color the car was not. you guys are just trying to defend the indefensible. </div></div>


Well stated, thank you.

Mike

[bergy]

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? No way - they mixed the paint according to the formula given (which may or may not have been correct)&amp; painted the job. I don't have a dog in the hunt, but people who I respect highly evidently do. So why not just conclude that the car got painted some color that we cannot identify for certain. It could have been intended to be EO, CS, SS - who knows for sure? The owner may have ordered EO and someone at the plant messed it up. Too bad that the owner/restorer didn't get consensus before the restoration was done.