1969 Camaro Z/28 w/Special Order Paint

[70 copo]

Ok so the owner orders Special paint in EO and somebody at the plant decides or intentionally orders the wrong paint?

Pictures fade over time and various factors come into play. The light will reflect off the car differently or car was dusty or dirty at the time of the photo. INMHO...

[70 copo]

That looks like EO on the roof to me.

[cook_dw]

Simply giving another perspective.. And as far as I know SSM may be the same as EO and it was simply a name change.. IDK..

[William]

Nope. None of the paint we saw on that car even remotely resembled EO.

[70 copo]

Gotcha

[cook_dw]

Not the greatest comparison but all I had to work with at the time..

[70 copo]

Bingo... Looks like the chip.

[watk69]

I think the reason its a subject ripe for discussion is, "the hobby" or maybe the "fluff" this car has gotten now miraculously made it a 200k Camaro. Its no longer a run of the mill 60-80k restored car. It would be especially interesting to see how the body number lines up with the VIN, Can't imagine they'd break up the paint line without putting it on some kind of hold until they had the time to paint this ONE car purple.

[Keith Seymore]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: watk69</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Can't imagine they'd break up the paint line without putting it on some kind of hold until they had the time to paint this ONE car purple. </div></div>

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Keith Seymore</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Most assembly plants have/had a special paint system, separate from the main line, where smaller paint pots could be loaded with low production volume colors, which would minimize the amount of waste when flushing the system. Typically these were done for fleet and special equipment runs (Grand Trunk RR, RCMP, Bell Telephone, etc). We also have had some plants were the special colors were run through the paint repair line rather than the main assembly process.
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Everything keeps right on flowing. Once the paint is loaded and the order is introduced to the production sequence they never miss a beat.

K

[cook_dw]