3/24/2024 0 Comments 1969 pontiac firebird paint colors![]() The fact of different paint codes should be a flag to this. Some go more to the yellow, others to the blue. On the "Cameo White" - "Cameo Ivory" issue, not only has there been more than one name for white, alost every one is a different shade of white or ivory, with varying degrees of tinting. On the other hand, you guys stopped going backwards at 1969 and didn't go to 1967. I just don't have 1970 paint charts or codes at my fingertips. I hope I didn't sound like I was trying to diminish your research (I wasn't aware of it). I has seen many original 69 TA's (they swear they were original paint) and the stripe color had varied on 2 of them. So it was extensive research into giving that answer. we found Tyrol Blue was Licerne blue and the PPG color match system reported use GM medium blue metallic (95 year). We had a rather lengthy discussion on the 69 TA blue stripes on this board in 97 or 98 I believe. I have to send out the drive for reconstruction. I did have all this info on my computer but thanks to 9/11, only my hardrive exists and it has errors on the drive so data is unretreiveable at this time. We used a 70 TA and had the computer match the color on a "swatch" or sample of the original paint taken from under the trunk lid. The color blue used on the 69 TA stripes was hard to trace as we used Lucerne blue as a referance, however using the PPG color system, we could not truly find referance to Lucerne blue. I know, several of us spent a Saturday in the body shop going through PPG color books from 69 up to 1998, as well as the PPG computer color matching stsem. PPG has a computer matching computer that has followed this all the way through time since 69. Raj and Einstien, The Cameo white has been around since before 69 and is still used today but the name has changed several times. But maybe if you would just comb your hair a little differently. All it takes to see that are correctly restored 69's and 70's parked next to each other at a major show. They should not be, since the Cameo White for 1970 seemed whiter than the 1969 color. I don't have any reference material here that can make clear if either of them is a match to the 1969 data plate code 50. I know that in 1970, there were two whites in GM - data plate codes 10 and 11 (I think 10 was that year's Cameo White). This would be the correct color for 1969. However, the 1969 white is "Cameo White" ("50" on data plate), R-M paint A-2080. The 67 and 68 shows Cameo Ivory ("C" on firewall data plate), R-M paint A-1199. One more thing - I'm looking at these RM charts for 67, 68 and 69. I'm just sorry that I've been giving out information that I NOW know was wrong, especially as a "recognized expert" in this area. The color codes I took from Jason Rogers' Firebird color site (the first link you listed) are as follows:Īny one of these numbers should assist a paint supplier in crossing to the numbers you guys will need - bring them all to your paint man, let him do the rest of the legwork. ![]() What you may not realize is that Tyrol Blue was a regular Pontiac production color in 1967! My 1967 R-M chart shows it, with the same number as below (A-1920). Now I realize that's what you stated in your post before the last one. "NOTE: Stripe color to match Tyrol Blue or equivalent, Fisher code WA-3680". Here's what the Assembly Manual states on page 35W-2.2: I am shocked to read what I'm reading, because it blows away what I have told people for almost 20 years (Chevy code 71). ![]() The most recent addition to my library is the reprinted 69 Firebird Assembly Manual. I have most of the 1969 factory literature, and never found anything definitive until just the last hour. Prior to that, I'd heard Lucerne Blue, but that made far less sense since it was not available until the 1970 model year. This also made sense because it was available during that year, on those assembly lines (Norwood and Van Nuys). At the time I owned it, a few people whose opinions I respected said "Code 71, Chevy LeMans Blue". I was also the POCI tech advisor to 67-69 Firebirds for 11 years.īut I have been a 69 Trans Am owner, and it still had the original paint (had a 70, as well). RAJ, please forgive me if I sound like a know-it-all Einstein (I earned this nickname!). ![]()
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