I am looking to buy a new carpet set for my 77 and im not sure what my original upholstry came with. I am almost sure my carpet was smoked grey leather and I am wondering where on the vehicle to find the interior color code to make sure??

What I am also wondering about is the color of my kick pannels, quarter pannels, dash, etc.... Instead of ordering all new pannels, I am just gonna order some interior paint or dye to save money, but I dont know if they are still the smoke color or white.... So can someone help me out going about finding the codes? THANKS!

 

The interior color code is found on the trim tag, which is riveted to the drivers side forward door jam, above the door hinge. The tag will have a 3 digit code for the interior trim. Unfortunetly, all 77 white leather interiors will carry trim code 112, no matter what color the carpet is.

When a white interior was specified, the carpet color was determined by the exterior color. White, silver and black cars, recieved smoke-gray carpets when a white interior was ordered. Dark blue carpet came with white interiors in dark blue cars, red cars got red carpet with the white interior and tan cars recieved buckskin carpet when ordered with a white interior. No other exterior colors were available with the white interior.

If my memory is correct, only the seats, seat backs and door panels were white, with the balance of the interior being the carpet color.

 

In 77 there was no "white" interior option.
There was only, black, medium red, smoke grey, buckskin, dark blue and dark brown.
The 2 tone interior (which gave you the white parts) was only available with the red, grey and blue leather interior color option.
It was also only available with certain exterior colors, red dark blue, light blue, black, silver and white.
It's easier to mention what was the trim tag color, front and top of dash, carpet on floor and door bottoms, console, seat belts and steering wheel. Pretty well everything else was white, making it seem as if white was an interior option.

My 77 was a 2 tone red interior with a trim code of 72L and 722 exterior.

 

It has the trim code for smoked leather upholstery and silver paint. The car has been painted red but the carpet definately is smoke grey but all the pannels and dash look white and I bought white interior dye im hoping thats what the originally were...

 

Here's just an example of a firethorn/white interior from my 76. Door panels and seats are white, everything else is firethorn. They might have done things differently in 77.

 

The 77 sales brochure tends to disagree with this. The following is from the sales brochure, "Or chose from leather-seat interiors in white with buckskin, red, smoke gray or blue accents."

To get the white seats, you had to specify trim code 112 and GM would then determine the accent color based on the exterior color ordered. If you ordered a white car using trim code 152 smoke gray, you got smoke gray seats and door panels. You had to order trim 112 with white exterior, to get to the white seats with gray carpeting.

It was a mistake on my part to say that the trim tag would show trim 112. Since the interior accent color (the red, blue, smoke, etc.) was determined by the exterior color when white was ordered, the 112 code must have been strickly internal for the order process, signaling the plant to use white seats with the appropriate accent color. I guess GM used what they called the accent color, as the trim code on the actual tag. If so though, unless you have a build sheet, original window sticker, or some other documentation, there may be no way of knowing if a car 77 originally had a white with smoke, or an all smoke interior.

According to the GM material I have, Buckskin tan was also available with white seating. If you ordered white leather with paint code 80 Buckskin Tan, the carpet installed was buckskin.

 

hmm well thanks for the help yall.... I ordered new smoke carpet from corvette central and white interior dye. I guess im not to concerned straying from all original since I already have motorwise, but I guess my real question was did I make a mistake ordering white interior dye instead of smoke grey but i guess well find out when it gets here... either way, smoke grey or white I guess all my pannels and dash are gonna be white now haha. thanks for the help!

 

The material I have does not list buckskin for a two tone color nor have I ever seen or heard of any.
In those years the sales brochures didn't always pan out thru production.
Supposedly the true trim combo identification was on the actual build sheets. I had a 2 tone 75 Trans Am new and it was the same deal, but I think it had both colors on the firewall trim panel. instead of just the trim code color. If you ordered the red/white interior, all the exterior decals were red, and likewise with blue/white interior, the exterior decals were blue.

What I have shows
2 Tone Smoke Gray was only available in leather with white, silver and black exteriors
2 tone Medium Red was only available in leather with red exterior.
2 tone Dark Blue was only available in leather with light blue metallic or dark blue exterior.

The white in all combinations included seats, headliners, visors, door panel vinyl, qtr panels, all headers and windshield trim.
Kick panels were the trim code color.
I ended up painting all the white, firethorn, except for the seats and door panels, just too much white for me.

Maybe someone will surface with a proper buildsheet.

 

Kinda sorta. For 77 you could get the same white and another color interior combination which had been available on the 76s. The package was essentially white leather seats, white door panels, with the rest of the trim matching the carpet color.