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Posted: 9/10/06 10:57amMessage 1 of 7
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Can anyone tell me how to verify the number of cars built with the Cinnabar interior.  My car is white with cinnabar and I have been told that there were only 250 built. Can anyone tell me how to verify this?
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Posted: 9/10/06 12:13pmMessage 2 of 7
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If your car was built at the Bowling Green assembly plant, they will have records.
If it was built at the St. Louis assy. plant....good luck! St. Louis never really kept any track of stuff like that.
You can request that info from the National Corvette Museum, as they sell copies of the original build sheets for the 81-up Corvettes that were built there(BG).
In 81, Corvettes were built at the two plants(BG and St.L), for a short time.

btw...that color was a "recommended" color for white cars...I would think there are a few more than 250 out there, but anything is possible!
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Posted: 9/10/06 12:27pmMessage 3 of 7
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I Know the car was built in St Louis..  Any other suggestions will be helpful
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Posted: 9/11/06 9:07amMessage 4 of 7
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Vette(s): #1 -1969 Corvette Coupe Riverside Gold, black interior,MN,A/C,350/350,PS,PB,window cranks. #2 -2000 C5, black/black, 6 sp, Bose system & lots of buttons.

There are some figures of how many vettes were made in St. Louis and Bowling Green according to exterior color.  It mainly referes to the paint.  St. Louis used lacquer paints through the end of production in that plant.  Bowling Green used enamel basecoats followed by clear topcoats.  Paints and paint codes were different for the two plants and confusion exists regarding quantities.  Bowling Green built both two-tones and solid B. Green quantities ar understated by 6% - only counthed thru 8/31/81), and St. Louis was assigned solid colors.  But St. Louis two-tones have been reported.

I didn't find any information regarding the Cinnabar interior.  Interior codes were: Bk=Black, C=Cloth, Ch=Charcoal, Cm=Camel, Db=Dark Blue, Dr=Dark Red, L=Leather, Mr=Medium Red, Sg=Silver Gray.

And one other thing, "At least one primer 1981 model has been documented, a St. Louis build, with "SPEC" trim tag.

 

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Posted: 9/11/06 10:29amMessage 5 of 7
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St. Louis did paint some two-tones....ever see a 78 pace Car? Silver Anni? These were laquer, while all of the BG cars were enamel/base/clear.

There were also some St.Louis cars painted enamel in July 1980.

All of this is irrelevant to the original question tho...

Cinnabar = Dark Red 67C = cloth 672 = leather

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Posted: 9/11/06 11:25amMessage 6 of 7
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Vette(s): 1981 - 59 Beige over Cinnebar leather. Edlebrock top end, 2200 stall w/shift kit, 3:55s, Mufflex maniback exhaust, nice stereo, 16 in AREs w/BFGs
Welcome to the club, Im 59 Beige over cinnebar.  BTW, Corvette AMerica is one of the few places that has parts on the ready for us Cinnebar guys.  Kevin.
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Posted: 9/11/06 12:10pmMessage 7 of 7
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Vette(s): #1 -1969 Corvette Coupe Riverside Gold, black interior,MN,A/C,350/350,PS,PB,window cranks. #2 -2000 C5, black/black, 6 sp, Bose system & lots of buttons.

[QUOTE=Adams' Apple]St. Louis did paint some two-tones....ever see a 78 pace Car? Silver Anni? These were laquer, while all of the BG cars were enamel/base/clear.

There were also some St.Louis cars painted enamel in July 1980.

All of this is irrelevant to the original question tho...

Cinnabar = Dark Red 67C = cloth 672 = leather [/QUOTE]

Yeah, I know St. Louis painted some two-tones and YES, I have seen a bunch of Pace Cars.

I was just trying to give the person more info, but didn't realize people were calling the Dr code Cinnabar (my mistake).  

There is no way to tell exactly how many were coded Dr for B. Green, but it was not limited to white exterior cars.  There had to be more than 250 built with the Dr code from some figures I've seen.

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