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just get creative in looking for spots where the original paint might still be, use a gm 67' color swatches and hold them up to the color when you find it, possibly a truck color, behind the vin tag on door jam had my orig paint well preserved... good luck. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Kevin
I this from the Omaha Orange 67 Camaro?
Rick

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O-O on a '68 would indicate Corvette Bronze paint, not special order paint.

-Jon

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Jon,that depends on when the car was built.Corvette Bronze was added to the Camaro charts late in the production run along with other Corvette colors.



Steve

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Jon,that depends on when the car was built.Corvette Bronze was added to the Camaro charts late in the production run along with other Corvette colors.

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Steve,

I agree 100 % with the late introduction of the Vette colors in 68. O-O is indeed Corvette Bronze. I know this because I own a 68 Z28 Van Nuys car in Bronze.

However, as I've mentioned above, I have documented a locally owned unmolested 68 L-78 that is black on black from the factory. No question about it. The Norwood trim tag clearly shows O-O as the paint code.

Perhaps another factory mistake that got by? I've seen a few.

Anyone else care to chime in on this one?

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In 68 the O-O (Corvette Bronze) paint code was added to the Camaro line up in January of 68. Tuxedo black (Code A-A) was retired from the Camaro line at the same time. Special paint instruction codes in 68 are dashes (-) such as --- or --A (for a white convertible top). In 67 the special paint instructions were O-O. Special paint instructions can be anything out of the norm, a stripe delete on a Z28, a GM fleet or other lines color not available on a Camaro.

I would have proposed that maybe the car was a very early 68 that was still using the 67 style of special paint instructions on the tag, but since tuxedo black was an available color for the first half of 68 procution it would have been coded A-A, so that doesn't work.

Since tuxedo black with an A-A code was available for an early 68 can we surmize that this L78 is a post January of 68 built car? If so it should definately have a --- paint code, not O-O if it was black from the factory.

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Numbers......
What's the #'s (VIN and trim tag) from the car?

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Car with the O-O code is a 67 not 68

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I'm referring to the 68 black car, btw.