http://www.midwestautocollection.com..._photos/726387

 

 

 

 

 

Nice!!!

 

I love that car to! The next Camaro I get I want a 92 Z28. Would be right at home next to my IROC.

 

Super sweet....So close to my car! But I have the LB9 with a T5. Same interior too.

I am applying the heritage appearance package now but I need a paint code for the hood blisters!

thanks for the pics....exactly what my car will soon look like!

 

Very sweet car.

 

NICE!!! i cant wait till i can have my PHM camaro looking that spiffy. Best third gen color in my opinion

 

Such a horrible color on an otherwise epic third gen. Purple just screams girly to me...but I digress.

I am the same jackass that just bought a 99 Wrangler I took in on trade that is Deep Amethyst...aka purple At least it looks far more blue than it does purple...but in the right light, it shows purple origins

What are they asking for that beast? Being a dealer, I'm sure its too much

 

$12995

 

Very Nice car..! What was it's factory color?

Not sure I'd say low milage with over 43K on the clock but still a nice car.

 

No. I called them because I had some interest in it. They said they haven't had a 92 Camaro in about a year. I said it was on the website. The guy said which part, the "sold" section? I said, no it wasn't on the sold section and then I realized it also is not on the current inventory list!

That is a factory color for 1992 only as a half year option. It is considered low miles as it's 20 years old and only has 43k miles.

 

Purple isn't everybodies favorite color but its still a low mile 92 Z28. They didn't make a lot 91-92 Z28's in the first place. That car also has all the factory go fast options too. L98, dual cat exhaust, 3.23 posi rear end, etc. It's also got the structural enchancements as well. It's even got leather. I wish it had the factory cd player but, as it is that's an optioned out Z28. That purple color is a hit or miss. I've seen other 91-92 Z28's before but not ones that were purple. Thats also one of the few purple 92's that got the heritage stripes from the factory.

I haven't seen in person to many polo green metallic 92's that got the heritage package either. I've seen a lot more cars that were white, red, or black with the heritage package than with purple metallic, or polo green metallic.

 

What month was the last 92 model production completed? The door tag says May of 1992. I've looked at some late production 92's before and some of them had black valve covers and rougher casting TPI intake runners. I have heard rumors that those were Corvette parts being used on the the TPI Camaros and Firebirds. '91 was the last year of the L98 in the Corvette.

 

Scott, is the car factory paint code # 80, Medium Quasar Blue?

 

No, it's Purple Haze RPO #84. Quasar Blue RPO #80 is different.

 

Got it. According to the White Book there were 8588 cars squirted in that color from the factory. But for some reason, I just don't remember seeing any cars in that color.

 

Van Nuys plant built cars until 8/27/92 when it closed for good. There's a video on here somewhere of the last Camaro ever built there.

 

Am I the only one who got a little nervous at how close that car is to that brick wall? That mirror has got to be less than a half inch from it...

 

I think it's a really nice car for the price. If I was looking for something on this order and didn't want to spend the cash to restore, this is the way to go.

 

Great looking car ...

 

Very well taken care of. I'm not a purple fan at all but you have to appreciate how well it has been taken care of. I could never wrap my head around the leather intierors of these cars.

This car reminds me of the one that Billy Jo Hobert was caught driving around the campus of University of Washington when he was the starting quarterback. It came from a booster and there went a promising career. I played against him in high school and he was a beast. I wonder if he still has the car.

 

Wow thats a beautiful car. If I had the 13 grand I'd buy it. I like the purple haze, especially with those silver heritage stripes!

 

WOW! great car all around. And a color that isn't played out.

 

that quote sounded interesting so I googled his name...

from sports illustrated and some other news site
With the first $25,000 he bought a 1991 Camaro for about $9,000 and paid off a $5,000 loan on a Chevy Blazer owned by his wife, Heather, and a $2,900 loan on a Hyundai he owned. He also purchased car insurance, used $1,000 to buy a semiautomatic pistol and a hunting rifle, and paid back $2,500 to a woman he had lived with during a brief separation from Heather. With the second $25,000, he upgraded to a '92 Camaro, installed a $4,000 stereo system in the car and partied his way through the northwest.


Dec. 14, 1992: His 1992 Chevy Camaro, bought with the illegal loan, is stolen and found stripped of parts and sprayed with bullets and the following message: "You can't afford this, B.J."

 

Beautiful '92 fully loaded, if I had 13gs laying around I'd get it and park it in my garage under a custom car cover and drive it on Sundays

 

Everyone, this car is long gone. It is not for sale any longer. I called them about this weeks ago and they said they haven't had this car for at least a year. They haven't had a 92 Z28 in over a year and they weren't sure if this was that car or not.

 

I'm sure they had sold it for a while now, I saw the video with Chris Moran the guy that test drove it for Chicago cars or something like that. It's on YouTube when you search 1992 Chevrolet Camaro Z28

 

First off, That car is awesome!

I don't mean to be contrary but I believe you are all wrong about the color. Purple haze was a solid purple. That car has a red hue to it like my 92 rs which is Hawaiian Orchid. One of the 183 92 camaros painted a non standard color.

 

I just compnine.com the vin and it is Hawaiian Orchid . My phone wouldn't do the rarity calculator but its got to be rare.

 

The car shows an 84 code. According to GM's literature, shown below, 84 code is Purple Haze:

 

There were 183 camaros painted a non standard color in 92. This info is in the camaro white book. You are correct that the purple haze code is 84 and I see how you reached your conclusion. There is no info on what color those 183 cars were, only those who own one know. I am one of those people. My 92 RS has rpo 84U primary and 84Q molding same as this one. The tell tale sign is the redness of the color. Purple haze was purple in any light. I learned this when over the 13 years I've owned my car there have been 3other purple camaros in town and none of them matched mine. Please look up these #'s as I have. You will see.

If I am wrong, why doesn't that rpo say purple haze?

 

RPOs were reused/recycled through the years.

You can see this for the RPO Y84. It was used in the early ThirdGens and then reused in 1987-1992 for the GTA option. The two are very different options despite they used the same RPO code.

The problem with RPO decoders is that it doesn't take the above into account.

I have a GM RPO Book and it shows that RPO 84U/84L was "Red Metallic" for 1993. It then shows that 84U/84L was "Hawaiian Orchid" for 1996. Again, GM recycled/reused RPO codes through the years and they can have very different meanings.

I'm not any expert on the Camaro side, but the GM documents show 84 is "Purple Haze". Compnine is good for giving you RPO codes for a VIN, but they have the same problem as all other online decoders - they use a generic description that isn't specific to the vehicle being decoded.

My guess is the terms are being interchanged and that there wasn't two different 84L/84U in 1992 for a different shade.

 

Very interesting. That is neat to know, but i don't understand how reusing an rpo in different years applys to 2 92 camaros. When I researched my vin I went to the Chevy dealership. When I got got paint for a repair to my front ground effect my rpo was not on the parts stores list so I went back to the Chevy dealership to get the code from them and once again they said my color is hawaiian orchid and gave me the code to have the paint made.

I don't want this to become negative but I know what color my 92 is by vin & rpo and this one has the same rpos. What is the rpo for purple haze?

 

The point I'm making is that in 1996 the 84U/84L was called "Hawaiian Orchid" and in 1993 the 84U/84L was called "Red Metallic". In fact, earlier than that, it was a Silver. You asked why the RPO Decoder refers to it as Hawaiian Orchid. I believe you're saying there are two different colors here in 1992 and I don't believe that to be the case. The online RPO Decoders don't do a good job of being specific on the RPO definition when an RPO code was recycled through the years. We have that same issue. We've been working on a new RPO Decoder that does take into account that fact the GM Recycled RPO Codes.

The GM order brochure posted above shows 84 is Purple Haze. That is the RPO code. Remember, the L is for Lower and U is for Upper. So 84L and 84U is Purple Haze - according to GM's brochure posted above.

As far as your car being a different shade than others, remember this was during the time when GM had a lot of issues with paint quality. Did you own your car since new?

Regardless, I don't suspect that it is correct that 84U/84L has two different definitions in just 1992 to define two different, but similar, colors. I suspect the different names are simply being interchanged.

 

I see what your saying. I'm not sure what to say. The Chevy dealership has confirmed my color as hawaiian orchid twice. But I can tell you know what your talking about so I am going to get more info and get back to you.

 

I think the simple fact is the color is being referred to by different names. You indicated the car in this thread is not Purple Haze but Hawaiian Orchid as it matches your car, which you said is Hawaiian Orchid:

Some call it Hawaiian Orchid, GM's brochure called it Purple Haze in 1992 but I wouldn't be surprised if the name Hawaiian Orchid was also used somewhere along the line as it was clearly used in 1996's definition.

My entire point is, I don't believe there are two different 84Ls/84Us in 1992 but, again, I'm not a Camaro expert. I'm going on what the documentation show.

 

Why would GM offer a custom color of a slightly different shade than purple haze and then give it the same RPO code as the latter color?

 

Guys, code 84 is Purple Haze. The 183 non standard cars were done for the B4C police/FBI paint schemes. Some of the non standard paint options were done by GM and others were done by the individual department ordering the car. GM did 183 of them.

In 1992, the only purple produced was coded 84 and is Purple Haze. GM reused the code in other years and that code could be a completely different color. As a reference, my car is coded 74, Dark Red Metallic. The WA code is different in 87 than it was in 1989. The 1989 car also was coded 74 and called Dark Red Metallic, but it's a different shade. You need to be careful when ordering paint colors to be specific to your year.

Another thing to note is that the GM name for a color is rarely referenced by the Chevrolet name. It's usually called by a Pontiac or Cadillac name for that same paint. Again, in the case of my car, Chevrolet calls it Dark Red Metallic and Pontiac calls it Flame Red Metallic. All paint touch up and reference to my color is always as Flame Red. The Hawaiian Orchid color was used on other cars in the GM lineup and they might have used the Hawaiian Orchid name. As far as the Camaro was concerned, WA9802 or code 84 was Purple Haze.

I have the light blue that GM is using on their trucks. Chevrolet calls it Blue Granite and GMC calls it Stealth Grey.

 

This is a beautiful car thats fully loaded.


I wasn't going to say anything but since there is a paint discussion above, do you guys think it was repainted at some time? Look at the passenger side stripe. It's not centered with the hood. But I'm pretty sure the factory didn't make all of these cars "perfect".

 

If I had to guess, I'd say likely. The paint quality on these wasn't very good, and this car's paint is too deep and too shiny to be a factory job. Plus, you don't have the tell-tale different shade nose and back bumper, which is how I usually discern a Third Gen with original paint.

 

The front bumper cover and the hood appear to have been repainted. If you look at the pics above, the tape job around the headlight openings was done very quickly and the purple overruns into the black in a couple spots. Also, the front end shot shows the hood to bumper cover fit is bad. Unless the front end has been apart, the fit is much better and tighter.

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I HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER!!!

Today I went to one of the best body shops in town and spoke with the owner with 40 years experience, who is a diehard chevy guy(corvettes) and then the chevy dealership and spoke with the body shop manager who has almost 20 years in the business. Both shops utilized every resource they had to help me figure out what this difference is between code 84 purple haze and the code 84 all my sources have told me is hawaiian orchid.

All sources led us to assume that JT and I are both correct. All resources at both shops list code 84 as hawaiian orchid for all chevys 92-96. (in 93 code 84 pearl red was a caddy color. In the late 80s code 84 was gunmetal). Purple Haze could not be found in any of the resources at both shops. both shops and I came to the conclusion that Purple haze was what GM named the color when they released it but all the paint companies called it Hawaiian Orchid. So all we can assume is that purple haze and hawaiian orchid are the same color since there was no info to confirm.

I was mistaken about my car being one of the 183 but i think now you can all understand how i was mislead into believing that. And in my defense the red hue of my paint is noticably stronger than the 3 ive seen in person.

Hopefully this clears things up. Thank you JT for helping further my thirdgen knowledge.

So should i say my car is purple haze or hawaiian orchid?

 

My screen name is what the dealer the car was purchased from said the color was. He was further off than any of us.

 

Did you read my post above. JT and I both told you that Chevrolet used the name Purple Haze while the rest of GM might have been using Hawaiian Orchid. Similarly, I mentioned that my truck is called Blue Granite while GMC calls it Stealth Grey. I cannot find much for paint with the name Blue Granite, but I do find stuff labeled Stealth Grey. Also, all paint resources refer to my Camaro code 74 as Flame Red, when Chevy called it Dark Red Metallic. They are the same color, however, industry is using the GM name for a color and not the name given by Chevrolet.

 

No I didn't catch your guys posts stating that til after I posted the same info. I'm just glad it's all figured out now. Thank you for your help. I'd rather be politely corrected then let carry on as a fool. When GM told me my car was Hawaiian Orchid about 8 years ago I never questioned it. When I got my Camaro white book 5 years ago I had forgotten what code my paint was but remembered the name hawaiian orchid which wasn't listed so I assumed from then on mine was one of the 183 as i have never seen or heard what those were. It was an honest mistake. Thanks again.

BTW, how/where did you get the info on the 183 being b4c police and fbi cars? I would have liked to have known that years ago.