New old guy..
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Melting Slicks
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From: PHX AZ
New old guy..
40 year corvette owner.
Just bought a 17.700 mile Collector Edition.
What is the paint code and name for the dark bronze paint on the tailight bezels, and also dk bronze interior, dash cluster and steering wheel?
Also, apparently NLA, unobtainium= Hatch hinge trim plates under the basket handle....looked everywhere. Anybody know something?
Need two.
L-46man
Just bought a 17.700 mile Collector Edition.
What is the paint code and name for the dark bronze paint on the tailight bezels, and also dk bronze interior, dash cluster and steering wheel?
Also, apparently NLA, unobtainium= Hatch hinge trim plates under the basket handle....looked everywhere. Anybody know something?
Need two.
L-46man
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From: Southbound
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1982 Collector Edition paint codes
DUPONT paint codes are:
exterior D8259G
Interior D8259J add 305S med gloss
taillight D8262J taillight is a single stage flex add for front and rear caps 2322S
I believe I saved these codes from an old post here on CEs.
DUPONT paint codes are:
exterior D8259G
Interior D8259J add 305S med gloss
taillight D8262J taillight is a single stage flex add for front and rear caps 2322S
I believe I saved these codes from an old post here on CEs.
Team Owner
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From: Westminster Maryland
Hi L-46m,
Welcome!
If you've owned Corvettes for 40 years you MUST be aware of the fact that we need to see photos!
Good Luck!
I hope your new 82 CE gives you lots of pleasure!!!
Regards,
Alan
Welcome!
If you've owned Corvettes for 40 years you MUST be aware of the fact that we need to see photos!
Good Luck!
I hope your new 82 CE gives you lots of pleasure!!!
Regards,
Alan
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Melting Slicks
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From: PHX AZ
Thanks Mike
I'll start cruising the CE forums.
The CE is the new car....The other one (40 years) is a 1969 L-46, M21, Side exhaust, FE7, {delete everything} Convertible...Two tops.
Damn nice to have A/C in a C-3! in AZ!
Cheers everybody...some day I'll tell you about the week I spent driving ZORA around Martha's Vinyard....what a Hoot! Engineer to Engineer.
Quote #1 Hal (me) " Hey Zora, why does my car feel like crap at 55mph but feels like a dream at 90."
ZAD "Vee cannot penalize the man who vants to drife fast"
Last edited by L-46man; Feb 23, 2017 at 01:46 PM.
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Melting Slicks
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From: PHX AZ
Forum denizen
I spend a lot of time on VWVORTEX...I have 4 Sciroccos too...It's a little easier there.
Photobucket Acct?
Written answer to a visual question. The CE has 17,700 mile on it.
It is the culmination of a nationwide 7 year search. I looked at 23 of them, before dropping the hammer.
Realizing there are a lot of NCRS guys here...I'll use the Hal Scale of goodness. 0-100
Interior about 95
Exterior about 90. The tailight bezels/ paint masking area are a little
threadbare and the bronze stripes are a little schmizzled in places.
The fade graphics are as new.
Gaskets are excellent.
Turbine wheels are exc.
Just a really nice example of the last shark.
Thread Starter
Melting Slicks
Joined: Feb 2017
Posts: 3,232
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From: PHX AZ
40 year corvette owner.
Just bought a 17.700 mile Collector Edition.
What is the paint code and name for the dark bronze paint on the tailight bezels, and also dk bronze interior, dash cluster and steering wheel?
Also, apparently NLA, unobtainium= Hatch hinge trim plates under the basket handle....looked everywhere. Anybody know something?
Need two.
L-46man
Just bought a 17.700 mile Collector Edition.
What is the paint code and name for the dark bronze paint on the tailight bezels, and also dk bronze interior, dash cluster and steering wheel?
Also, apparently NLA, unobtainium= Hatch hinge trim plates under the basket handle....looked everywhere. Anybody know something?
Need two.
L-46man
Mid America just found two...hinge covers...DONE! THX!
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Welcome to the forum! Wow... 4 Sciroccos! I loved the first gen of those!
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Welcome to the forum! Wow... 4 Sciroccos! I loved the first gen of those!
Attachments and Images
How do I attach a file to a post?
To attach a file to your post, you need to be using the main 'New Post' or 'New Thread' page and not 'Quick Reply'. To use the main 'New Post' page, click the 'Post Reply' button in the relevant thread.
On this page, below the message box, you will find a button labelled 'Manage Attachments'. Clicking this button will open a new window for uploading attachments. You can upload an attachment either from your computer or from another URL by using the appropriate box on this page. Alternatively you can click the Attachment Icon to open this page.
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Melting Slicks
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From: PHX AZ
don't go there!
While I love EVERY Corvette Made...Having spent a ton of time with Dave Mcllelan at the launch of the C-4....hmm, he says cordially...not my kind of Corvette.
Possibly some credit COULD go to my old Club..North Shore Corvettes of MA...for backing Dave into a corner...Danny Gale, myself and a few others and banging on him for the C-4 Coupe....without the video game instruments! We got the coupe....took them a while to see the error of their ways.
Me to DAVE at dinner "what the @#$% were you thinking...this is not a DATSUN 280ZX...forget those guys!"
Having said that...If I was to go racing again....The C-4 is what I'd choose.
You guys are all so dang civilized! LOL.
On the Scirocco forums, I'm UnkaHal the forum Curmudgeon!
I guess I'm more used to the 'finging poo' type of forum! yeehah!
I have 3 minty Mk1 Srocks incl. possibly the 'newest' one in the country, and a forlorn looking Mk2.
Oh and a Audi TT Quattro....the daily.
Possibly some credit COULD go to my old Club..North Shore Corvettes of MA...for backing Dave into a corner...Danny Gale, myself and a few others and banging on him for the C-4 Coupe....without the video game instruments! We got the coupe....took them a while to see the error of their ways.
Me to DAVE at dinner "what the @#$% were you thinking...this is not a DATSUN 280ZX...forget those guys!"
Having said that...If I was to go racing again....The C-4 is what I'd choose.
You guys are all so dang civilized! LOL.
On the Scirocco forums, I'm UnkaHal the forum Curmudgeon!
I guess I'm more used to the 'finging poo' type of forum! yeehah!
I have 3 minty Mk1 Srocks incl. possibly the 'newest' one in the country, and a forlorn looking Mk2.
Oh and a Audi TT Quattro....the daily.
Team Owner
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From: Westminster Maryland
Hi L-46,
WELL!
That was worth waiting for!
Looks like a very nice car!
You must be pretty pleased?!?!
Good Luck with it!
Regards,
Alan
Next time the hood is open…. maybe another photo?
WELL!
That was worth waiting for!
Looks like a very nice car!
You must be pretty pleased?!?!
Good Luck with it!
Regards,
Alan
Next time the hood is open…. maybe another photo?
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Melting Slicks
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From: PHX AZ
Thanks Alan
Oh! You assume that the hood opens! (took 4 hours!) I bought it without opening the hood!
The Car sat for a total of 23 years in a metal shed in Hou. TX.
So with the 12 hours it took to fix the hatch and the Four hours to get the hood open. (the late C-3's don't have the ability to use the CHEATER ROD like the 69....)
yes, the caution fan sticker is still in Hou!
Working the years offa it!
anyway great to be here.
super people...every one of them!