I have a Black 70 the paint code reads - - . What does that mean?

Indicates 'paint delete'. In other words, it was ordered in a non-standard color available for Chevelles that year. The car was pulled for the special paint before it arrived at the 'normal' paint station. Could have been anything from Carolina Blue (http://www.chevellestuff.com/70velle/gallery/paint_delete_carolina_blue02.jpg), Monaco Orange (http://www.chevellestuff.com/70velle/gallery/72_monaco_orange.jpg), or virtually any other color paint color available not only from GM but Ford and MoPar as well. Here's a 71 El Camino (http://www.chevellestuff.com/71elky/gallery/feature/unk03.jpg) painted 1968 Pontiac Verdoro Green.

Somewhere along the line, someone didn't like the color and, obviously, painted it black. Only factory paperwork would tell you the original color. The upside...you could paint it virtually any color (except a Cadillac 'firemist' color I believe) available in 1970 and it'd be "correct." Any color regularly available on the 1970 Chevelle would be "incorrect." graemlins/thumbsup.gif

The following has been posted here before:

GM Special Paint info from web site discussion. Jim Mattison (former COPO office at) and owner of Pontiac Historical Services.

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It appears that your car was special ordered through the Chevrolet Fleet & Special Order Department (many of you folks call it the COPO Group).

During the years that I was a part of this group, we processed many orders for vehicles with special paint. Although these vehicles were ordered with "special paint", they are not considered to be COPO cars. I'm surprised that more of these "special paint" cars haven't shown-up, as many of these orders were for performance cars.

The paint information (926-99568) that you have on both the build sheet and on the trim tag "is" in fact a Dupont paint number. I don't understand why your local Dupont folks can't identify it for you. The "926" denotes that the color is a non-metallic and the "99568" is the mixing formula. While this color may in fact be for Daytona Yellow, it could also be for some other yellow, including a truck color, or a yellow from another car manufacturer. The paint information that was stamped on your trim tag was supposed to be able to assist you or your body shop to identify the "special paint" color, if repair or re-painting was needed at a later date.

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First, back in the late 60s and early 70s anyone could order their new Chevy with a special color. Literally any color under the rainbow was available, except for the Cadillac Fire mist colors.

The pricing for a solid color "Special Paint" would vary between no charge and $125.00. Volume would dictate the pricing.

If the customer was a fleet account, or if the dealer would order multiple vehicles in the same color, the pricing would be n/c. However, if the dealer would order a single unit, the pricing could go as high as $125, with various prices in between, based on many other factors.

Some of the other conditions that would require a car order to come through my group was: "Delete Stripes" on a Z-28, Chevelle SS, or other model with painted stripes. Colors that were current production, but on a different model, would also require our approval. We did lots of cars in "Hugger Orange" that normally didn't come in that color as n/c. Also, you wouldn't believe the number of Chevrolet's that were painted the popular 1968-69 Pontiac color, "Verdoro Green"! I even remember a fair number of cars being ordered in the 1970 Chrysler color "Plum Crazy"!

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The Cadillac Firemist colors were excluded due to them having such a course metallic. These colors needed to be sprayed through a special paint gun. Even on a Cadillac, the Firemist paint was quite a costly option!

The pricing for "Special Paint" was based on if the color was a current production color on another Chevy model, the number of vehicles ordered and if the account was a "Fleet Account". We would also have the ability to, at our discression, change the paint pricing on an order, if we felt that it was justified.

As for the paint, Dupont would send an ample amount to both the Fisher Body facility and to the corresponding Chevrolet plant. All of this paint was "factory package" direct from Dupont, so color matching wouldn't be a problem.

Also, on all special paint orders, a quart of paint would be shipped in the glove box of the car, so that the dealer could do any touch-up, if needed. A note would accompany this quart of paint, recommending that the owner write down the paint number inside their owner’s manual for future reference

Thanks for the reply car seems to be originally black, because under the dash is black, and the car was stripped with no colors indicating something different.

Not so quick to judge. ;)

My 67 Chevelle was originally Madeira Maroon but you'd be very hard pressed to find any indication of that now as it was stripped before being painted a custom orange pearl.

http://www.dalesplace.com/images/chevelle/newss1.jpg

http://www.dalesplace.com/4sale/p002415_med.jpg

Thanks for the post car looks good my question was under the dash was black with no indication of any taking it apart, it was even black under the matting.

Originally posted by Black70454:
Thanks for the post car looks good my question was under the dash was black with no indication of any taking it apart, it was even black under the matting. I'd guess most are probably black under there anyway (?) Also, depending on the interior color (like white for example), the metal trim could be factory black. smile.gif

I also have a 1971 Chevelle SS, paint code delete car. It might be worth a little time and research to find just what color the original color was, turns out mine is Carolina Blue, which apprears to be a faily rare color from what I understand from all the people I have talked to.