When is GM Coming out with The New TURD Brown Color Corvette?
10-18-2007, 04:57 PM
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I have seen a metallic brown on a 5series and I would love to have that color on one.
10-18-2007, 05:00 PM
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St. Jude Donor '09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14-'15-'16-'17-'18-'19-'20-'21
They actually had a dark brown in 1974 that really was not too bad. They also had orange. That is why my CB handle was Great Pumpkin. They only really make about 10 colors. They just keep changing the name.
10-18-2007, 05:04 PM
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What many of you don't seem to understand is JSB is not at all a new color to the Corvette. In fact I would call it a traditional Corvette color. The name may change but the shade is still very much the same. A color like Jsb has appeared on almost every Corvette generation.
10-18-2007, 05:06 PM
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Some day they will offer an "Active" Paint color that will mirror its surroundings and render the car invisible
Imagine the LEO getting a 110 mph reading and not being able to find the car!
Imagine the LEO getting a 110 mph reading and not being able to find the car!
10-18-2007, 05:31 PM
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10-18-2007, 05:37 PM
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Brown should never go on a sports car. Brown only belongs one place and it comes with a flusher. They had brown in the mid 70's on camaros, t/a's and vettes. They all look horrible now. Not classic.
10-18-2007, 06:03 PM
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10-18-2007, 06:03 PM
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Corvettes have had as many as 16 different colors per year. GM is just lazy. Here is a list by years.
http://www.performancecoatings.dupon...c/corvette.pdf
http://www.performancecoatings.dupon...c/corvette.pdf
10-18-2007, 06:15 PM
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My sister had a 1979 brown Camaro Berlinetta. That was a very cool color - back then. Personally, I think that if brown's done right (not UPS brown) then it can be a very nice color.
10-18-2007, 06:17 PM
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In the 80's as well. I had an 82 Z28 that was metallic brown. Didn't really like the color, but my parent bought it for me when I was 17, so I couldn't complain.
10-18-2007, 06:23 PM
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Corvettes have had as many as 16 different colors per year. GM is just lazy. Here is a list by years.
http://www.performancecoatings.dupon...c/corvette.pdf
http://www.performancecoatings.dupon...c/corvette.pdf
The years with the most colors are the "overlap" years between St. Louis and Bowling Green. The light/dark combos were actually made in Bowling Green while the others were made in St. Louis during the transition. This was done to differentiate the two plants production. The previous years with the most colors were at St. Louis. Paints were different, regulations were different and the process was very, very different.
Also, the list is at least partly wrong. Just because GM reserves a color with Dupont for the Corvette it doesn't mean that the color was actually produced on the Corvette in produciton which in most of these cases it wasn't. Your chart lists 13 colors for the 1983 Corvette.
The chart shows 1987 as having 16 colors. There were only 11 production colors and one pilot (5 cars) in a Dark Orange.
As far as lazy
whatever. The Bowling Green plant asks every year for money for expansion to the paint department. The number of colors that the plant paints is limited by the space available in the paint shop at the plant, nothing more, nothing less. It has nothing to do with laziness. It is a physical limitation. Bowling Green would like nothing more than to be able to offer more colors at the plant.
10-18-2007, 06:45 PM
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Interesting list. A couple of things worth noting.
The years with the most colors are the "overlap" years between St. Louis and Bowling Green. The light/dark combos were actually made in Bowling Green while the others were made in St. Louis during the transition. This was done to differentiate the two plants production. The previous years with the most colors were at St. Louis. Paints were different, regulations were different and the process was very, very different.
Also, the list is at least partly wrong. Just because GM reserves a color with Dupont for the Corvette it doesn't mean that the color was actually produced on the Corvette in produciton which in most of these cases it wasn't. Your chart lists 13 colors for the 1983 Corvette.
The chart shows 1987 as having 16 colors. There were only 11 production colors and one pilot (5 cars) in a Dark Orange.
As far as lazy whatever. The Bowling Green plant asks every year for money for expansion to the paint department. The number of colors that the plant paints is limited by the space available in the paint shop at the plant, nothing more, nothing less. It has nothing to do with laziness. It is a physical limitation. Bowling Green would like nothing more than to be able to offer more colors at the plant.
The years with the most colors are the "overlap" years between St. Louis and Bowling Green. The light/dark combos were actually made in Bowling Green while the others were made in St. Louis during the transition. This was done to differentiate the two plants production. The previous years with the most colors were at St. Louis. Paints were different, regulations were different and the process was very, very different.
Also, the list is at least partly wrong. Just because GM reserves a color with Dupont for the Corvette it doesn't mean that the color was actually produced on the Corvette in produciton which in most of these cases it wasn't. Your chart lists 13 colors for the 1983 Corvette.
The chart shows 1987 as having 16 colors. There were only 11 production colors and one pilot (5 cars) in a Dark Orange.
As far as lazy
whatever. The Bowling Green plant asks every year for money for expansion to the paint department. The number of colors that the plant paints is limited by the space available in the paint shop at the plant, nothing more, nothing less. It has nothing to do with laziness. It is a physical limitation. Bowling Green would like nothing more than to be able to offer more colors at the plant.I used the word 'lazy' which could account for lack of funding or space or anything else.
Corvettes began producing in Bowling Green in about 1981. The most colors per year came out of that plant, not St. Louis, so I don't see how 'space' could be a factor.
10-18-2007, 06:53 PM
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If people don't buy a color they will discontinue it. I don't care what colors they make. I like the color of mine and that's all that counts.
10-18-2007, 07:20 PM
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I did not complile that list, I found it on the internet. The list is slightly different than the colors listed in the Corvette 'Black Book'.
I used the word 'lazy' which could account for lack of funding or space or anything else.
Corvettes began producing in Bowling Green in about 1981. The most colors per year came out of that plant, not St. Louis, so I don't see how 'space' could be a factor.
I used the word 'lazy' which could account for lack of funding or space or anything else.
Corvettes began producing in Bowling Green in about 1981. The most colors per year came out of that plant, not St. Louis, so I don't see how 'space' could be a factor.
Production started on June 1, 1981. 1981 Corvettes were made in both St. Louis and Bowling Green. BG painted in enamel, St. Louis were painted with laquer. Two plants, more capacity, more colors. As humans came out of the paint booth space became more of a premium.
They also appear to be including two tone combinations as additional colors which I guess could go either way. The b/c designation is for base coat which may or may not show through. In that case, today's cars could have as many as three "colors".
I won't even try to address how lazy=not enough space or money.
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10-18-2007, 07:26 PM
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10-18-2007, 08:00 PM
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