What about a cowl that has 2 dashes for the paint code? Was it a special order color? Could someone get a color other than factory options if they wanted? Just asking...Bill

Yes, the -- for paint code means the car was ordered with a non-standard paint offering. Unless you can find some of the original paint still on the car or a build sheet to tell you what color it originally was, you probably will never know.

Thanks Gary....guess I can pic my color!

You can paint it how you want it and no one can dispute it. Sweet.

What year.

It's a 1973 car.

it may have been black. black wasn't offered in 73 ( i guess the body work wasn't quite up to par). but Ive seen and heard of a number of black 73s with the -- paint code. from what i was led to believe gm would wait until they got 20 or 30 orders and took the bodys off the line for special straightening.

My 72 Z was special ordered black and it also had the two dashes it also had the DX3 code for stripe delete.