Rare LS6 - restoration to begin - question...? - Page 5

**SS427** · #41 09-10-2002, 04:39 PM

Congrats on your find. One more time with the help of this board, difficult issues are resolved. Sounds like you are well on your way to a very thorough restoration. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Rick

copo9566aa · #42 09-10-2002, 05:27 PM

Bon enfin ces des information comme ca que j'aime. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/cool.gif[/img]
Thanks Rare LS6.

JoeC · #43 09-10-2002, 07:23 PM

Jim has a good memory. He said "The prefix "767" denotes that the color is a Dupont metallic wheel enamel. A non-metallic wheel enamel would be "766"." It appears on this chart that they used a similar code for the body color with 926 as non-metallic colors and the 927 is a metallic color. That chart is a great find.

Schonyenko2 · #44 09-11-2002, 04:16 AM

This must be above and beyond your average jobber, or boby shop code book,as I have a Dupont book and it doesn't have production, or Fisher codes. I notice this only shows Lucite stock numbers not dulux, or Centari codes like a regular code book. This must have been a more specific factory version as the factory would have been shooting only laquer then. Never seen anything like this. Cool! Schonye

**NEATSS** · #45 09-11-2002, 04:59 AM

How were these special paint cars handled at the factory? I have seen 3 unrestored hugger/monacco orange LS6 cars over the past 20 years. The first one I looked at very carefully for signs of a repaint. It had the - - cowl tag. Inside the trunk on the torson bars for the hinges it showed gobi beige(code 50). It had a shine where it was not covered with orange overspray so it was not primer. Were these cars painted a neutral color on the line and then pulled off the line and topcoated or was this car just a freak?

Jim Mattison · #46 09-11-2002, 11:55 AM

The Cadillac Firemist colors were excluded due to them having such a course metallic. These colors needed to be sprayed through a special paint gun. Even on a Cadillac, the Firemist paint was quite a costly option!

As for doing a book........... I'll be the first to confess that I throughly enjoyed the years that I spent at Chevrolet. Lots of things were going on! It was a time in the automotive industry that we will never see again, as the industry has changed so dramatically!

I'll be happy to talk to folks about some of my experiences at Chevrolet (both the good and the bad), if I were to see you at a show or event. However, I sincerely doubt if anyone would ever want to read about my adventures. I was just a small fish in a big pond!

Jim Mattison

**Charley Lillard** · #47 09-11-2002, 01:55 PM

OK...It sounds like Jim doesn't want to write all this stuff down so maybe the best way to get into his head is to just keep asking him questions on this Forum. When he answers, we will have a Record of his recollections that can be saved. Ahh, his head is gonna hurt.

**Kurt S** · #48 09-12-2002, 08:47 AM

> the pricing could go as high as $125, with various prices
> in between, based on many other factors.

Do you recall what some of the other factors would be? Did availability of the paint (another GM color vs a special order color) affect the pricing?
This is more an operations question: do you know just how did the paint vendor handle these one-off orders? Just enough paint for the Fisher Body side and another quantity for the Chevy side? And hope the car didn't need major paint repairs in the plant?

Thanks!

Jim Mattison · #49 09-12-2002, 11:47 AM

The pricing for "Special Paint" was based on if the color was a current production color on another Chevy model, the number of vehicles ordered and if the account was a "Fleet Account". We would also have the ability to, at our discression, change the paint pricing on an order, if we felt that it was justified.

As far as the paint itself. Dupont would sent an ample amount to both the Fisher Body facility and to the corresponding Chevrolet plant. All of this paint was "factory package" direct from Dupont, so color matching wouldn't be a problem.

Also, on all special paint orders, a quart of paint would be shipped in the glove box of the car, so that the dealer could do any touch-up, if needed. A note would accompany this quart of paint, recommending that the owner write down the paint number inside their owners manual for future reference.

Jim Mattison

**Charley Lillard** · #50 09-12-2002, 02:26 PM

So a perfectly restored special paint car should have a quart of paint in the glove box to make it complete....Or points will now be deducted. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

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