Paint code / color question
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Paint code / color question
I found a dark navy blue color called "Black Sapphire" while at the Carlisle show. It was on an awesome looking modified 67. The guy gave me a card with a picture of the car and told me the paint code was a number 22. He said it was a late 70's - early 80's color, which I wrote on the card.
A friend of mine works at a body shop and he gave me a book on GM paint codes and colors. Could not find a code 22 that matched.
If anyone is familiar with the name and can help out, please post. Otherwise, if anyone has any codes or names of really dark blue, send them. I'm looking for somthing that looks black at night under streetlights until you get close.
Thanks in advance!
A friend of mine works at a body shop and he gave me a book on GM paint codes and colors. Could not find a code 22 that matched.
If anyone is familiar with the name and can help out, please post. Otherwise, if anyone has any codes or names of really dark blue, send them. I'm looking for somthing that looks black at night under streetlights until you get close.
Thanks in advance!
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Re: Paint code / color question (Tom73)
All the following are from the Corvette Black Book.
1982 Code26 Dark Blue
1981 Code 28 Dark Blue Metallic (St. Louis)
1981 Code 38 Dark Blue Metallic (Bowling Green)
1980 Code 28 Dark Blue
1979 Code 83 Corvette Dark Blue
1978 Code 83 Corvette Dark Blue
1977 Code 28 Corvette Dark Blue
1976 Code 22 Bright Blue
1975 Code 22 Bright Blue
1974 Code 22 Corvette Medium Blue
1973 Code 922 Medium Blue
1972 Code 945 Bryar Blue
1972 Code 979 Targa Blue
1971 Code 976 Mulsanne Blue
1971 Code 979 Bridgehampton Blue
1970 Code 976 Mulsanne Blue
1970 Code 979 Bridgehampton Blue
1969 Code 976 LeMans Blue
1968 Code 976 LeMans Blue
1968 Code 978 International Blue
There were some more blues listed, but they were listed as medium and I don`t know the exact tones of the blues by name. Sorry.
1982 Code26 Dark Blue
1981 Code 28 Dark Blue Metallic (St. Louis)
1981 Code 38 Dark Blue Metallic (Bowling Green)
1980 Code 28 Dark Blue
1979 Code 83 Corvette Dark Blue
1978 Code 83 Corvette Dark Blue
1977 Code 28 Corvette Dark Blue
1976 Code 22 Bright Blue
1975 Code 22 Bright Blue
1974 Code 22 Corvette Medium Blue
1973 Code 922 Medium Blue
1972 Code 945 Bryar Blue
1972 Code 979 Targa Blue
1971 Code 976 Mulsanne Blue
1971 Code 979 Bridgehampton Blue
1970 Code 976 Mulsanne Blue
1970 Code 979 Bridgehampton Blue
1969 Code 976 LeMans Blue
1968 Code 976 LeMans Blue
1968 Code 978 International Blue
There were some more blues listed, but they were listed as medium and I don`t know the exact tones of the blues by name. Sorry.
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I found a dark navy blue color called "Black Sapphire" while at the Carlisle show. It was on an awesome looking modified 67. The guy gave me a card with a picture of the car and told me the paint code was a number 22. He said it was a late 70's - early 80's color, which I wrote on the card.
A friend of mine works at a body shop and he gave me a book on GM paint codes and colors. Could not find a code 22 that matched.
If anyone is familiar with the name and can help out, please post. Otherwise, if anyone has any codes or names of really dark blue, send them. I'm looking for somthing that looks black at night under streetlights until you get close.
Thanks in advance!
A friend of mine works at a body shop and he gave me a book on GM paint codes and colors. Could not find a code 22 that matched.
If anyone is familiar with the name and can help out, please post. Otherwise, if anyone has any codes or names of really dark blue, send them. I'm looking for somthing that looks black at night under streetlights until you get close.
Thanks in advance!
Burning Brakes
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Wow, new record for bringing a thread back from the dead! 
Your paint code of 28 is called Dark Blue Metallic. If your car was repainted with Black Sapphire, then the code 28 just indicates the color it was born with. GM did have a color called Black Sapphire with code 28, but it was used in the late 80's and early 90's - and is a different color (most likely). The code 28 on those cars maps to WA8743 paint code.
Your paint code of 28 is called Dark Blue Metallic. If your car was repainted with Black Sapphire, then the code 28 just indicates the color it was born with. GM did have a color called Black Sapphire with code 28, but it was used in the late 80's and early 90's - and is a different color (most likely). The code 28 on those cars maps to WA8743 paint code.
Last edited by bradleyb66; Feb 18, 2020 at 02:43 PM.
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There was no such color on any C3. The closest color to what you described is "Nightwatch Blue", which was on the 1965 Pontiac GTO's and full sized cars. The appropriate interior color with Nightwatch Blue was "Blue Charcoal" which is something like 50/50 mix of Navy Blue and Black. Other GM cars may have utilized Paint Code 22; but you should be careful with using GM color codes, as they frequently re-used the number code for different colors in different model years!
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