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Old Dec 3, 2018 | 07:43 PM
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So it ain’t oyster.....lol. I have my suspicions but I would like to ask you all what color you think it’s is. Trying to match the color on the right....






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...76 & '77 had a "Smoke" interior that looked like that color, to me, anyways.
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I have to say that the part on the right appears to be much darker than the Smoke Grey interior photos that I've seen. The only other grey interior was in the '68/69 cars and was called Gunmetal. Not sure if that could be a match, or not.
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Anything but black!
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1978 had a silver interior color code 15 or 152 for leather.
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Hmmm, not oytser, maybe clam?
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There are two oysters..78 and into 79...and 79 up..not sure that dark though..
what year? Trim plate?
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