1969 Chevelle Paint Colors

 

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There are no known numbers for any particular color for a particular series or body style whether it be a solid color or two-tone. The numbers shown below are valid for all series and body style Chevelles. There are also no known numbers for the different colors of convertible or vinyl tops. So just how many red (or any color) SS 396-optioned Chevelle sport coupes (or any other series) were built is not known and cannot even be calculated with any accuracy. All Chevelle assembly plants have the lower body color first followed by the upper body color (or convertible/vinyl top) color. There are two special colors for the SS 396-optioned 300 Deluxe and Malibu series, Hugger Orange and Daytona Yellow. Even though they are 'unique' to the SS396-optioned Chevelles, each was still a $125.00 option. Caveat: Some Yenko COPO Chevelles in 1969 were painted either Hugger Orange or Daytona Yellow; 16 are widely accepted as being delivered in Hugger Orange and 12 in Daytona Yellow. Whether these are reflected in the total number reported for each color isn't known. If you have any proof one way or the other, please contact me and I'll update this information.

 

The 1969 model year changed the format for paint and convertible/vinyl top codes. Paint codes changed from a letter to a 2-digit number and convertible/vinyl top codes changed from number to a letter.

 

PAINT CODE - (RPO)	SALES NAME	COLOR NAME	SALES QUANTITY
10 (910AA)	Tuxedo Black	Black	7,441
40 (916YY)	Butternut Yellow	Yellow	27,028
50 (911CC)	Dover White	White	33,152
51 (923EE)	Dusk Blue	Dark Blue	19,230
52 (913RR)	Garnet Red	Red	29,449
53 (922DD)	Glacier Blue	Blue	36,377
55 (921KK)	Azure Turquoise	Turquoise	22,980
57 (920VV)	Fathom Green	Dark Green	41,226
59 (919WW)	Frost Lime (1)	Lime	81,883
61 (918SS)	Burnished Brown	Dark Brown	17,774
63 (917MM)	Champagne	Champagne	23,610
65 (915GG)	Olympic Gold	Gold	44,118
67 (914nn)	Burgundy	Maroon	14,415
69 (912BB)	Cortez Silver	Silver	20,419
71 (924FF)	LeMans Blue	Bright Blue	51,060
72 (927QQ)	Hugger Orange (2)	Orange	5,194
76 (926PP)	Daytona Yellow (2)	Bright Yellow	2,841
Special & Prime			3,465
Two-Tone Combinations
PAINT CODE - (RPO)	SALES NAMES (lower/upper)	COLOR NAMES	SALES QUANTITY
53 / 50 (954DC)	Glacier Blue / Dover White	Blue / White	4,590
53 / 51 (955DE)	Glacier Blue / Dusk Blue	Blue / Dark Blue	798
51 / 53 (956ED)	Dusk Blue / Glacier	Dark Blue / Blue	833
65 / 50 (957GC)	Olympic Gold / Dover White	Gold / White	5,057
55 / 50 (958KC)	Azure Turquoise / Dover White	Turquoise / White	4,754
61 / 63 (959SM)	Burnished Brown / Champagne	Dark Brown / Champagne	5,658
Notes of Interest
Convertible top color letters: A - White (Std. C05AA) B - Black (RPO C05BB) Vinyl top color letters: B - Black (RPO C08BB) E - Parchment (RPO C08EE) C - Dark Blue (RPO C08CC) F - Dark Brown (RPO C08FF) G or S - Midnight Green (RPO C08GG)
(1) The sales name of Frost Lime is also referred to in GM documentation as Frost Green. (2) SS 396 and COPO colors only and available at an additional $42.15. The sales name "Hugger Orange" is also referred to in GM documentation as "Monaco Orange."
One could order any available color in 1969 via the Fleet & Special Order (F&SO) process.

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Color Rating by Sales

 

There is no known breakdown of color and specific series or body style, numbers are for all 1969 Chevelles including convertibles where they would have a convertible top. Colors are listed total number of sales from most to least. Two-tone combinations are listed separately.

 

Sales Rating	Total Reported Sold	Color
1	81,833	(59) - Frost Lime (1)
2	51,060	(59) - LeMans Blue
3	44,118	(65) - Olympic Gold
4	41,226	(57) - Fathom Green
5	36,377	(53) - Glacier Blue
6	33,152	(50) - Dover White
7	29,449	(52 ) - Garnet Red
8	27,028	(40) - Butternut Yellow
9	23,610	(63) - Champagne
10	22,980	(55) - Azure Turquoise
11	20,419	(69) - Cortez Silver
12	19,230	(51) - Dusk Blue
13	17,724	(61) - Burnished Brown
14	14,415	(67) - Burgundy
15	7,441	(10) - Tuxedo Black
16	5,194	(76) - Hugger Orange (2)
17	3,465	Special & Prime
18	2,841	(72) - Daytona Yellow (2)
Sales Rating	Two-Tone	Colors - lower/upper
1	5,658	(61/63 - 959SM) - Burnished Brown / Champagne
2	5,057	(65/50 - 957GC) - Olympic Gold / Dover White
3	4,754	(55/50 - 958KC) - Azure Turquoise / Dover White
4	4,590	(53/50 - 954DC) - Glacier Blue / Dover White
5	833	(51/53 - 956ED) - Dusk Blue / Glacier Blue
7	798	(53/51 - 956ED) - Glacier Blue / Dusk Blue

 

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GM of Canada Paint Code Chart

 

General Motors of Canada, LTD. offered many of the same colors as their U.S. counterpart. Although these colors are listed as 1969 Buick-Chev-Olds-Pontiac Colors on the paint code chart. It's unknown if these additional colors were available on Chevelles as well. Several Canadian colors were identical to U.S. colors, only the sales names were a bit different.

 

 

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Color vs. Sales Name

Paint color names often differ from the advertised Sales Name. One example might be where the factory paint color is simply RED but the sales name may be BOLERO RED or CRANBERRY RED. Yes, the paint mixing formulas are different between BOLERO RED and CRANBERRY RED but to the factory it was still just red. In a case where their may be two or more hues of a color with sales names such as DEEPWATER BLUE, NANTUCKET BLUE, and MARINA BLUE, the factory colors are simply shown as MEDIUM BLUE, DARK BLUE, or BRIGHT BLUE. A given paint color for a year may have a different sales name for Chevrolet than it does for say Buick, Oldsmobile, or Pontiac. An example of this is the 1969 sales name for Chevrolet of HUGGER/MONACO ORANGE is the same color as the 1969/1970 Pontiac sales name of CAROUSEL RED. Same color, same OEM supplier mixing formula, just different sales names for the two GM divisions.

 

 

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