Silver 1985 Camaro Owners
 

I'd like to know if the paint info found at the bottom of the RPO sheet is the same for all silver cars made in 1985 or if there was a difference between silver and met. silver. The info of my met. silver IROC is as follows: Enamel WA - L8547 08547. From what I understand met. silver was a one-year color.

Hunting for answers.

(GM built 180,018 Camaros in 85. Only 11,684 of them were in silver. The 21+ thousand IROC's were sprayed in five colors, to include silver. Those factors could lead to the rarity of silver IROC's--and the fact that I've never seen another one.)

JamesC

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I have a 85 grey camaro, I can't take pictures until this weekend.

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Gray or Met. Silver?

JamesC

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My silver '85 IROC:

Enamel WA- L8547 U8547



Silver was available in other years too, just not on the IROC-Z. My '84 Z-28 is a similar silver, but the paint code is not the same.

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I did some digging in my old paint chip books. I have every year GM '79-'91, except for '90 (PPG).

The silver used on '82 F-body was a carry-over from the '81 model year.
The '83-'84 F-body used another shade of silver, but two different codes depending on which plant manufactured the car (enamel vs. water based).
The '85 F-body had it's own shade of silver, and also had two different codes for enamel/water.
There was also another shade of silver for GM vehicles that year, it must have been for base/clear vehicles. This code was also listed for the '86 F-body. It was also used in later Chevrolet vehicles, along with a couple other codes for silver (they look basically the same).

I also noticed that in the years with two different codes depending on enamel/water based, the same color could look drastically different, especially in '84.

So yes, the '85 Camaro had it's own silver color. One code for enamel, and another for water-based.

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On a related topic, does anyone know what the paint code is for the silver ground effects on an 85 Z-28?

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I can look that up too, shortly.

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WA 7448, also code #16, the PPG number is 3308
-This is actually the same code used on the '82 Camaros, as the body color.

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Thanks for posting the ground effects color code.

And yes, Silver IROCs are pretty rare.
I remember seeing a lot of IROCs in the late 80s, they seemed to be everywhere. But most were Red or Blue. I remember some Black ones and a few Yellow, but I can't remember ever seeing Silver.

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This is the best web site I have found for paint codes. http://firebirdattitude.com/cgi-bin/...r=1985&rows=50 Note there are three codes that are silver for 1985 GM cars. WA8547 silver enamel. WA8602 silver water base and WA8535 silver lacquer. I hopes this helps. :)

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Here is the rpo list on my silver 85 IROC-Z. I dont know how well it turned out in the pic, so sorry if you cant read it. I dont know to much about the silver cars, so if theres something good on there let me know. I hope this helps in some way.

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Here is a pic of the car.

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Yours must have been built in California, you have the paint code for water-based paint.

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Is that good or bad ?

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Confused here also.

Did all Van Nuys camaros get water based paints and the Norwood cars ge "other" paint???

Mine is a Van Nuys camaro!

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According to my old PPG book, yes. It seems this was the case with some of the colors, but not all.