I have an 86 z28 and its gunmetal grey with dark grey gfx. i have only seen one like it before and it was on this forum and he had never seen another either. im wondering if it was a rare option. also, would this have come stock with a louvered grille or a "camaro" grille. the car was in a front end accident and a louvered grille was put in, and im not sure which was stock but i wanna make it appear as original as possible...a couple pics.







i think the seats were replaced pretty recently too.

 

Nice ride! Good job.

Zs usually had either gold or silver GFX. I know that grey color was available for 88 up. I can't say for sure if that combo was factory or not-- looks great though.

If it has fogs it should have the CAMARO grille. it it doesn't, then the louvered.

 

ya its rare , i have seen a 1985 iroc with
the same color on ebay a week ago,
whats the paint code for ur car

 

hm, i dunno, that color looks a little different. ill try to get the paint code some time.

 

I have an 86 z28 and its gunmetal grey with dark grey gfx. i have only seen one like it before and it was on this forum and he had never seen another either. im wondering if it was a rare option.

Rare? Probably. Most were silver or gold. It's unfortunate that Chevrolet didn't keep production numbers for accent trim (to list only one).

The charcoal rockers/wheels were available from 1985-87. The primary body color on these Z28s were white, silver (85 only), and charcoal. I bought an '86 Z28 new that was white with charcoal rockers!


....also, would this have come stock with a louvered grille or a "camaro" grille.

Depends. In 1986, the fog lamps was a $60 option on the Z28. If you have this option (RPO T96), it came with the "CAMARO" grill.


i think the seats were replaced pretty recently too.

Yep. They are not the original fabric or pattern.

 

wow thanks a bunch for the info. definantly dont have the foglight option. i think i might go back to the louvered grille for stock purposes, although the wheels arent stock either. are you saying my wheels would have been charcoal as well?

 

....are you saying my wheels would have been charcoal as well?

Yes. I reluctantly post this pic of my '86 the day after I bought it in 1986. The upper body pinstriping was dealer installed. Otherwise, it is all original. Gotta love my short shorts! Groovy man!

Willie

 

damnit, now i have this urge to make it completely stock, but now that i know about the seats i think ill leave it alone. ive never seen that pinstriping before, from the top of the door and up the sail panel, thats really cool.

 

Here is my '88 IROC. Its gunmetal grey and the only year to have this piant color according to this website is 1988.


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Only year to get an IROC in that color but not the only year for Z/28's, RS's or Belinettas.

 

Oh, ok i see. I really wasnt for sure.

 

ok, maybe this is a dumb question, but why are there rare colored cars ever? I understand if they were thought to be ugly (brown) or just too bright (neon pink) they would limit production, but most of the time these "rare" colors are neither. so why would GM or any company only make a few these rather tame colors? seems like the cost to convert back and forth from those colors (especially back in the day) on the paint sprayers would be too much to not make a lot of them. if that makes sense to everyone.

 

Well you are exactly correct. GM did not intentionally make these colors rare. The fact that they did not sell is what makes them rare. In 1988 for example, grey was not very popular among guys ordering IROC's. Peoples tastes come and go and today, a grey IROC looks damn hot! That is why every 2nd 3rd gen is either red, blue, black or white. Those colors sold well and so GM just kept those colors available.

 

Yeah I 've got 2 "rare" 3rd gens.A gunmetal grey over silver 88 and a polo green with gold heritage stripped 92.

 

Not meaning to hijack the thread, but were there alot of black and gold 86 z28's made? I've only seen 1 other in this color combo (and everyone thinks its me driving around!)

 

1986 Gunmetal Gray with Silver g/fx

 

Wow Willie! Not the best view just before dinner!!!

 

Here is another angle, I have an '82 Exterior Colors brochure they gave away and an '82 Dealer only Exterior Colors card sample pack you could look at but not take home.
Looking at both I would not have even thought of ordering a bird in "Light Jadestone Metallic".

The samples do no justice to the actual colors of my S/E, by colors I mean it's Silver Metallic during the day and a very kool light Blue after the sun goes down.

I have only seen 1 other '82 S/E the same color as mine, so welcome to the "Rare colored 3rd Gen Club"

 

My first car was a two tone gunmetal/charcoal 86 camaro SC. It was just my highschool turd but my senior year I picked up an Golden yellow 87 L98 IROC. Im surprised there werent more yellow IROCs made (3052 built in 87) sence the 80s were all about loud flashy colors.

 

in 1986 the produced 17,886 Gunmetal (Gray)

but that includes sc,z28, berlinetta

and the paint code is 84 / 7782

 

Damn ... Codename47's '86 is bad-***! I love that color combo ... very nice ride.

 

In 1988, I was looking for a new car. The local Pontiac dealer had a 1986 IROC-Z in yellow on the used lot. They also had a 1987 Formula 350. I couldn't get the Formula in the price range I could afford so they offered me the IROC-Z. I thought the car looked hideous and said no way. The dealer couldn't sell the car so they were trying to get rid of it very cheaply. I came across this many times during the 80s. Yellow was not a good looking car then because there weren't many yellow cars on the road. Today, I think the yellow IROC-Z looks great. I've always liked the look of the grey IROC-Z and can't understand why the grey was one year only. GM produced alot of cars in grey and they all sold well.

 

I had a 2nd Gen T/A in charcoal silver.It's a good looking color on just about any vehicle.My '83 is beige(code 59) with gold GFX/wheels.They only offered beige in '83-'84 with about 20K Camaros total for the 2 years(I don't know if it was offered on Firebirds).GM assigns vehicles certain colors,maintains the very popular colors in multiple model years and expands the color choices if the vehicle line is popular.

 

i know gunmetals arent too rare. but i almost never see the charcoal gfx under them. im saying that i have almost never seen my combination of colors before, not just the top color.

 

i have the gun metal grey camaro
its the only one iv ever seen other than yours
i was beggingg to think i was the onyl one

 

it could be the same car seeing as this post is 4 years old.

 

nope, still got mine. this is my first post on the site in years though...brings me back