Rare LS6 - restoration to begin - question...?

[COPO]

mr70, on the first car listed, it sounds like a car destined for the Charleston, S.C area. In 1970, Charleston celebrated it's 300 year b-day. I was living there at the time and clearly remember the tri-centennial parade. I'll hve to look through my pictures and see if I can find a Chevelle from the parade.

[Jim Mattison]

The prefix "767" denotes that the color is a Dupont metallic wheel enamel. A non-metallic wheel enamel would be "766".

I am reasonably sure that I didn't process this order, as yes, the entire wheel on this Chevelle SS would have been painted gold. Some of the guys in my group didn't take the time to think about the possibility of a car having some type of sport wheels. You have to remember that the majority of our business was that of police cars, taxis and municipal vehicles, which came whith the standard steel wheels. Occasionally, the plant would call and question the painting instructions, but not all that often!

The next five (5) digits are for the mixing formula of the paint. While I'm not 100% sure, I believe that "98457" is the mixing formula for Anniversary Gold, which has been used on a variety of Chevys over the years, to commemorate various anniversarys.

On your other Chevelle, the mixing formula "99616" is for what we used to call "Road Commission Orange". This was a very popular special order color on trucks, but some cars were ordered with it too! Mostly on "hot rods"!!!

The "1001HA" is the pricing code for the special paint. The charges for a solid color special paint would vary from no charge (1001AA) to $125.00 (1001HA). We would paint a vehicle any color under the rainbow except for the Cadillac Firemist colors and Corvette colors. Our special paint book would have thousands of special colors it it..... with more being added weekly. Unfortunately, those days are gone forever!!!

I can still remember the cars that we special painted "Kelly Green" for John Delorean, when he was general manager of Chevy and dating Kelly Harmon. Lots of special "Pink" cars for Nancy Sinatra, too!!!

F&SO "RD0066" refers to the document number for the special order instructions. These numbers were assigned by my department. This order was the 66th at this plant for the 1970 model year. I believe that the "R" is for the GM Assembly Plant in Arlington, Texas?

I hope that this information is helpful.

Jim Mattison

[Mr70]

COPO
Please let me know if you find anything.That would be interestng to me.Thanks. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Jim M.
Yes, that Chevelle is from the Arlington Tx. Plant.
As always your deciphering is very helpful and much appreciated.
If you wrote a book about this stuff,I would buy it. Thanks. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[Chevy454]

Jim:

AWESOME info as usual! Hardcore info like that is what keeps people coming back to this board! Any more you'd like to share?

[Rare_LS6]

I'm amazed how helpful everyone has been here...thank you. I've been trying to obtain accurate information about the paint details of this car for over a year now. I've received so much conflicting information and just plain misinformation it's amazing. The information I've received here in the past few days has been second to none!

I called two paint stores, again this weekend, they assured me they could give me details about the Dupont paint, and/or mixing formula based upon the code...no dice!

Jim - If you have anymore information about mixing formula for code "99568" or actual paint "name" - I'd be very thankful. I'm currently trying to locate a auto paint store that can accept a piece of unweathered paint and decipher it with their digital spectromitor.

[JoeC]

Jim, Was there different levels or different types of special paint and/or a different ordering process used? On the 1969 Chevelles the Monaco (Hugger) Orange and Daytona Yellow had to be ordered as special paint available only with the SS option. These cars have the normal paint code on the trim tag in the normal field. The COPO process was probably not needed for these. On Monaco (Hugger) Orange and Daytona Yellow COPO cars and non standard colors such as Carolina Blue, the trim tags have a - (dash) and no paint code on the trim tag. On 1967 Camaros a - (dash) was used where an SS car was ordered without the mandatory SS nose stripe. Do you remember any rules for when the dash was used with no paint code? Did the dash on the trim tag denote that there was a special COPO process or special assembly instructions? thanks

[copo9566aa]

Thanks Joe
It was exactly the same question which I wanted to ask him.

[Kurt S]

I think it was up to the plant on how they handled the tags. Jim may have a better answer. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
Jim,
How was the pricing (1001AA - 1001HA) determined? We'd seen the different ECL's but didn't know the meaning.
Were all special paint instructions, include stripe deletes, handled thru the F&SO office?
Thanks!

[sYc]

See attachment (from Schony)

[Schonyenko2]

Thank you Tom.My son Joe ran across this looking for info for that LS6 color. It shows that April is when the spring colors became available. Also thought it was neat how it showed when the three late run deuce colors became available for Novas. Great thread, thanks Jim for the info. Schonye