Factory color that no one will admit to!!

[jus10inbrla]

I actually have a 93; its the same as the isuzu pups according to my paint guy

Just10’s pic says 1996, you need 95, I think 94 is also the same teal green.

My 95 is the same as yours posted.

 

[jus10inbrla]

Post a pic of your service part tag lets see if we can catch anything u not

 

[1997]

here's the 95 paint choices from brochure, 38 looks like mine.

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[thinger2]

Odd. Mine is a 94 but the paint people say it is a 95 and newer color and even the vintage chip books show it that way.

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[HotWheelsBurban]

Maybe yours is a late production 94( or a special order color, but usually there's a code for that). My Dad had a buddy from college that ordered a new 75 Buick Century (mid size Collonade coupe). He liked the metallic brown color that was available only for the Riviera, and supposedly not available on any other Buick that year. Someone that knew someone made some calls, and sure enough, he got the color that he wanted on his Century. Real pretty color, like coffee with some milk in it, or a dark caramel.
I often wonder what became of it after he sold it. He'd taken good care of it,and if I remember correctly, it had the Buick 350 in it.

 

[thinger2]

I know that i have seen mid 90s Camaros in that color.
It turns out there are a few posts on the F body forums asking the same type of question.
Apparently, there is an rpo 37 that is a bright teal blue metallic.
But the cars are bright teal.
No blue.
It wouldnt surprise me at all to find out that this is either a GM issue that has some TSB or maybe something that got screwed up in the 1990s transition from paper to microfiche to digital.
And GM used the same RPO for entirely different things.
The great G80 controvery is a prime example of this.
And sometimes entire paragraphs are missing.
Like TBI rebuild kits that reference putting it back together with red locktite.
Just the throttle plate screws.
Not the body.
Data loss and scanned documents can get really friggen weird and wild.
They kinda take on a life of their own.
I was building a hospital years ago and the GC bitched because we werent in compliance with the contract.
We had core drilled the slab and grouted the rails in.
Which is normal.
The fine print of the contract said we had to install the rails with ferrules and molten lead.
Hasnt been done since about 1875 or so.
But the designer had scanned his great grandpappys engineering book into the system because it was "quant and showed historic integritey"
Construction contracts and spec books often contain "canned" generic off the shelf stipulations.
And this one took on a life of its own.
Somehow.
We exclude all kinds of things in a proposal.
Crane time for other trades, field measuring for other trades, fire watch for other trades etc...
I havent seen it in about ten years.
But I stiil have to exclude molten lead and ferrules.
Because it just wont go away.

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

here's the 95 paint choices from brochure, 38 looks like mine.

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In the truck picture it look more like blue, but on the paint chip it looks green.
Blue and green are some hard colors to match. I used to have a 96 Dodge Intrepid. Great car, could haul all 4 of us, fast, exciting, great handling, big trunk. The color on it was called "Island Teal Pearlcoat". Gorgeous! Kind of a cross between Petty Blue and faded denim, or metallic turquoise. But it looked more blue in the sun, but green in the shade.
My Mom and Dad went to look at the local Mopar store, to see if they could find one they liked. We'd rented one for a weekend trip the year before and loved it,didn't want to give it back!
So they find one, in the evening, and she goes back the next morning to talk to someone about the car. They bring it out for a test drive, and she says " that's not it, I looked at a green car". It was sunny, so the blue was really working it, and the pearl coat part is kind of a gold frost. And those cars were nothing but curves, so it's really cool looking.
Long story a little shorter, we got the car( she and I bought it together) and we put 80,000 miles on it in 3 years. Mostly work, driving all over SE Texas, but we did make a few family trips in it. Much better in something newer with ac and good mileage!
That car was badass for a front drive sedan! We ended up getting rid of it a couple years ago; it just had too many things needing fixing. These cars have some great design, but some crappy stuff in the front end that's really expensive to repair right.
It was in an indie film that my brother and a bunch of his film school friends made though!

 

[Erik the Awful]

I was building a hospital years ago and the GC bitched because we werent in compliance with the contract.
We had core drilled the slab and grouted the rails in.
Which is normal.
The fine print of the contract said we had to install the rails with ferrules and molten lead.
Hasnt been done since about 1875 or so.
But the designer had scanned his great grandpappys engineering book into the system because it was "quant and showed historic integritey"
Construction contracts and spec books often contain "canned" generic off the shelf stipulations.

When I had my wife's shop built, I gave the builder the foundation specs from the metal building company and told him that's how I wanted it - cracking foundations is a problem around here. I also filed the specs with my permit request. The day of the foundation pour I was at work and got an angry call from the builder because he had to dig the footings wider at the last minute. The permit inspector had shown up and noticed the builder was "doing it his way" instead of what was spec'd. Read your contract and follow it. Don't bid to do the work it you aren't prepared to follow it. Note that I work in the aircraft industry where strict contract compliance a very important thing, so your industry might operate differently.

Ever hear the story about how Van Halen had a crazy line buried in their contract that the venue had to provide a bowl of M&Ms with all the green M&Ms picked out? They did that for a quick visual of contract compliance. If the venue had that bowl of M&Ms, they knew the venue was professionally run with attention to detail. If the bowl of M&Ms wasn't there, they knew it was going to be a $#!+show.

I think the color difference is a case of a GM bureaucrat saying, "Eh, we could just use this color code again. Nobody will know the difference."

 

[thegawd]

like summit white or it's new name... Olympic white. stupid dumb **** gd mofos!

good thing I saw that the code was the same. and grabbed a few cans. I fixed a bunch of **** only to realize that my sierra has been entirely painted white again at some point but its NOT summit or Olympic white and my new paint job DOSENT MATCH! some beach!

Al

 

[618 Syndicate]

Mercedes are notorious for this as well. What looks like the same exact color across years may have several different paint codes, and some colors are much harder to find than others. Had a gray (not ****** silver, actually gray) S class get totaled a few years back and argued with State Farm for weeks about the value. I told them to go find me one in that color and then we'd talk about how much they were gonna give me for what their customer had destroyed. They couldn't find but 2 of that model in that color for sale in the entire country, but I still had to have a lawyer threaten them before they caved and gave me what I wanted for it.
Here's a pic of the car in question before it was totaled. (Just because I like to post pics, not because it's gonna help the OP find his paint code.....not sorry lol)

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