According to my corvette a day calender, tomorrow's trivia question says no corvettes between 1970-1976 were painted black :confused:

Is that true?

 

If that is what it says. :confused:

What are you doing reading tomorrows trivia today? :nono:

Steve :seeya

 

They must have known that the heater core shut off didn't work all that well and adding black paint :eek: People would have been dying in the summer!

 

It sure is. I just checked my Corvette Black Book. It gives me paint codes for every year and there was no black from 70-76.

 

wow learn something new everyday

 

Whoa, that's kinda wierd. :rolleyes:

 

Hey! We have the same desk calendar! :thumbs:

 

Interesting. :skep:

 

Not suprising to me.........The build and quality was so poor on the cars that they knew the balck would only enhance the flaws :yesnod:

 

Hmmmmmmmmmm??????
I wonder how we could find out the real reason. I could buy into the quality thing, but any of the dark colors would show the defects just as bad, greens, brown, etc

 

Would have never thought that, since black is usually one of the top 3 colors in sales. I'm wondering if GM only made available a certain number of colors in those years, so that black was probably replaced by another color. Anyone with a black book handy? I'll guess it was replaced by brown.

mark


[Modified by 81vette, 12:22 PM 4/16/2003]

 

Psychedelic era, bright colors, black just wasn't cool (in more ways then one :) )

tom...


[Modified by Tom73, 12:28 PM 4/16/2003]

 

It seems the black was replaced by Laguna Gray in '70. Over the next few
years several experimental colors were added/subtracted. Warbonnet yellow
came and went. Various oranges here and gone.

Thankfully, we can change history - one vette at a time.
Mine's gonna be black someday (gray primer first).

:seeya

 

Wow, that's really weird. I never knew that. I guess that's why it's trivia.

 

Jenn,

While black was not listed as an available color during the years that you referenced, there are documented instances of Corvettes being painted black by the factory (for sale to customers) during 1970-1976. Typically, cars that were painted in colors other than the listed factory offerings carried a trim tag with the paint code listed as SPEC (PRIM, PRI, or simply a blank by the paint code on the trim tag meant that the car was delivered in primer).

I am aware of a production run of 20 or so cars during 1972 that were painted black and, if my memory doesn't fail me, about the same again during 1973 production. This does not include single orders for black (or other color) cars that may have been processed through a COPO or similar non-standard method.

So, while extremely uncommon, St. Louis did paint at least a few Corvettes black during 1970-1976.

Mark,

That's very true now, but not back in the late 1960s. William mentioned the quality issue (factory applied Corvette paint of the 1960s-1970s has got to be some of the worst in automotive history) and Tom suggested the trend toward "odd" colors... Both are certainly legitimate explanations and were probably contributing factors for removing black as a standard paint color for Corvettes.

Regards,

 

I may paint mine black, so there will be at least one. :)

 

Very interesting Stan. BTW, what are you using to move your frame around with in that picture? I need one of those. Did you buy it or fabricate it yourself?

mark


[Modified by 81vette, 3:14 PM 4/16/2003]

 

Me Too! I don't care for those cryptograms or cross-words. Pictures tell the story, with a few trivia points of course. I think I had my calendar open to Thursday April 3, for like two weeks with the picture of that custom 75. I flipped through the entire calendar the very first day I got it. :reddevil

 

Hopefully in the fall you guys will be looking at a black 1970 in my sig. I did know that 1970 didn`t have any black vettes but didn`t realize that there were none for that many years. Thanks for the trivia.

 

:( I tried to order it but they were sold out. I was too slow. :(