DoctorBrinkley

So I'm looking for a 2001-2004 Corvette Convertable [black top]. My first color choice is yellow.

Are there 2 shades of yellow??

Like "regular yellow" and premium color "Millenium Yellow" or are all 01-04 Vettes millenium yellow?

0Vette Stripes

There is only one yellow

YELLOHHH

JoshVette

Just Millenium Yellow.

Maybe you saw someone's who's wasn't taken care of very well and it looked like a different shade, or the sun faded it or something??

UT-Driven

I have seen some pictures of the C5 Yellow Vettes and some looked like they were painted different colors. The ones that don't look like MY look really yellow and bright. I don't know if it was the camera, lighting, image processing or what but I can see where the confusion is from.

Ut-Driven

JoshVette

Could be........good point.

Red is that way too. I have a friend who claybar'd his and zaino'd it straight from the factory and I'd swear it's waaaaay brighter red then any of the red vettes I've seen out there. I have a pic of his red one with my black one in "my corvette photos" under my sig.

Tim2K4Vert

From 2000 to 2005, all yellow Corvettes are Millennium Yellow. The color can look different in pictures depending on the light.

yellow01

I thnk MY was 2001+. Don't know for sure though.

Tim2K4Vert

No. Where do you think the name "Millennium" Yellow came from? First year was 2000.

XTrooper

BINGO!

maxfli's5

one of the guys i work with , we were talking about the meseum and the plant. and he said they were running the yellow cars and notice that some were differant. he said some one ask about them and that they were going to some indy driver i cant remeber who got them, but ill do some checking and see and ill get back.

Sponge Vette

bsmithC5/2004

A friend just got the last produced Millenium Yellow 2005 C6 .They will now be the same yellow as the SSR's

c5BlackBeauty

srsjuju

I have a Mil yellow and from what I have been told the color is a tint not a paint. So in theory all of the cars could be a different "color" as the more paint that is put on or the less paint the color will be different.

It is very hard to match if you have to paint it from what I am told.

C5-BRUCE

Just a side note, Mil-Yellow, like Torch Red, has been discontinued for '05. Torch Red is now Victory Red, and I think the new yellow is Victory Yellow but my memory fails me. There have also been rumors that some late '04 cars were painted with the new yellow but can't verify that.

yellow01

I thought it came from the first year of the new Millennium

or in other terms 2001

AU N EGL

Yellow is a GOOOD choice

Sportsdude

XTrooper

I'm afraid someone steered you wrong on both counts. First, Millennium Yellow is, of course, a paint. The difference is, and why it was an extra cost option, is that it has a tint coat. That is, instead of a normal clear coat, the clear coat is tinted yellow. It also may not be the easiest color to match, but I wouldn't say it's very hard either. The color on my aftermarket hood and spoiler match the rest of the car perfectly.

The differences people are seeing have everything to do with the lighting and nothing to do with different paint colors or shades. I have photos of my own car where the paint looks 50 shades different due to the lighting at the time they were taken.