Here is my Question.
In 1979 there were 2 colors of brown offered.
One is 67- Hilton Brown Metallic and the other is 82 – Corvette Dark Brown.
What is the difference and why did they change the color?
My car is a mid year, it has the 140 speedo and the 3 door storage compartment behind the seats.
The interior is 59c, a light beige cloth.
The paint is original with the bonding strips easily seen.
I have seen one other 67, but the paint was past saving.
Is there a difference in the 2 colors?
People have called the color a chocolate brown.
I got the resto packet from GM and they use the 67 color in the 1978 info packet and all the books that are printed afterward use the 82 color.
Help!
Thanks - Hilton 67

This is a pretty good website for looking at color chips, I found your 67 brown there listed as a corvette color:
http://autocolorlibrary.com/cgi-bin/search/searchpic.pl?1979-gm-pg03.jpg
They show the 82 brown as a non-metallic truck color (81 was the metallic truck brown):
http://autocolorlibrary.com/cgi-bin/search/searchpic.pl?1979-gm-pg06.jpg
I suppose anything could be special ordered. What does your trim tag say?
Joe

|UPDATED|11/21/2003 9:16:01 PM (AZT)|/UPDATED|

Here is a pic of the car before it was put away for the winter.

http://www.vettefinders.com/79Registry/car_images/Upload79.JPG

Let me know if it is a bad link.

Save the wave!
Hilton 67

The trim tag is:
67 59c

hilton, put the url tags around your link , just highlight it , cut it then hit the url button and then paste the link between them . do this in your signature
page in your account

OK, I did it.
Lets see if it works.

Dude:
Here's what my trim tag says
592 67L PAINT

I've been calling it Dark Brown all these years and you come out with this!

If you ask me the answer is simple...there are small metallic flakes in the paint!

Too cool. Thanks for posting your question.

Oh yeah, I forgot, the speedo only goes to 85, I still have the three compartments behind the seats, and the interior is Doeskin leather.

I love this group!

I ALSO OWN ONE OF EACH 1974 ROADSER DARK METALIC BROWN 454, THE OTHER IS A 1979 L-82 COLOR CODE 67 HILTON BROWN METALIC INTERIOR IS CODED 592 THE 79 TANK STICKER SHOWS THAT THE CAR WAS DEL. TO SAUDI ARABIA WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO CONFRIM THAT BUT BROWN IS BEAUTIFUL.

I have had a hard time finding brown cars in Ohio and had thought that they were quite rare.
Vettedreams79 your car looks quite a bit darker than mine.
Don is there a difference in the color of your 2 brown cars, or metallic?
I guess this has turned into a quest for me...
Everyone has to have a hobby...


http://www.vettefinders.com/79Registry/car_images/Upload79.JPG