Let's see ..... Sharon, nice to hear from you again! With a cowl tag code of 02A, knowing that '77 Z28 production began on Feb. 1st (1st week of Feb!), there is no doubt that your car was among one of the very first to roll of the production line! If there were 14,000 plus produced from Feb 1st to the first week of August, that would be about 26 weeks of production, which figures roughly to be about 550 cars per week betwen the two plants. I believe the figures I saw recently showed that Van Nuys outproduced Norwood about 2 to 1, so that would mean roughly 180 of those 550 were made in Norwood the first week. How's that sound, Sharon?

COPO, did you mean that everyone is getting tired of this subject? I need to keep perspective on that a little, I suppose. By the way, thanks for mentioning about your friend in GM Vintage. Do you think he might have access to some of the stuff we're hoping to research for the article? Send me an e-mail please, if you would. Thanks. By the way folks, I think the photo COPO posted may have been from a really nice article on the '77 Z in Hot Rod magazine. Am I right?

Major Dad; Shane, thanks for the e-mail!

Dan77; The Registry is simmering in my head right now, I'm trying to organize my search for background info on the article first, both from within and from outside Chevrolet. I will need to contact some other Registries as well to find out how they are set up (both structurally and legally), how they are organized, and what their purpose (or "function") is. That's down the road a little bit, but I am gathering information from all of you to make it easier for when the time does come. Thanks all, for the interest and co-operation!

I mentioned earlier that one of our group had some success with Chevrolet in obtaining a copy of his window sticker. Seems some of these cars are available. We don't want to overwhelm the source at Chevrolet, so if anyone is interested in this, please e-mail me at rmcdermott1@surfbest.net, and if it's okay with Nick, I'll pass on the info privately. Those who have viewed this thread without contributing, please let me know who you are if you e-mail me. Thanks. This is primarily for mid-production cars or later, it appears (sorry, Sharon!)

Time for bed, but tomorrow I'll post some info on this LT interior/Sport Coupe interior subject. Goodnight all!

Okay, to help clarify the Z28/Type LT interior questions, I will post a couple of things here now.

For starters, I said before that there were actually four different interiors available for the 1977 Camaro; a standard vinyl and an optional cloth for the base Sport Coupe Model, and a different standard vinyl and optional cloth for the Type LT. The document below is an "in-house" price schedule from Chevrolet corporate to all dealers:

Here, under the heading "Interior Trim", you will see the line: "V**2 Vinyl Bucket Seats",and right below that you will see the line: "P**2 Knit or J**2 Sport Cloth Bucket Seats".

To the best of my knowledge, V**2 is the vinyl interior that came as standard equipment in every Camaro base Sport Coupe model.

The P**2 and J**2, well they have me a bit confused. One of them (I don't know which) should be the optional cloth interior for the base Sport Coupe. What the other code would be is beyond me!

Here is a color photo of the base Camaro vinyl interior, taken right out of the Camaro brochure;

This next page is a black & white (sorry, that's the way Chevy did it!) insert from the 3 ring "Dealer Book", and also shows the standard vinyl Sport Coupe interior (in the lower right hand corner):

I do not see a single image of the optional cloth Sport Coupe interior in any of the dealer or factory literature I have, neithr the dealer "brochure or the 3 ring "Dealer Book". Nothing.

Now, skip down 5 more lines on that first image, and you will see the line: "X**2 Custom Vinyl Bucket". This is the vinyl interior that came standard on the Type LT, and is the top photo in the black & white picture above.

On the next line of that first page, you will see the line: "E**2 Custom Cloth Bucket". This is the optional cloth interior for the Type LT, which is in the lower left corner of the black & white photo, and is shown in color on this photo below:

As you can see, the Type LT vinyl and cloth interiors look very much alike, and look nothing like the base Sport Coupe interiors.

I have read that the Type LT interior IS in fact available on a base Sport Coupe that is equipped with the Z28 option, and this is a black & white (sorry again!) mid-year Z28 insert for that 3 ring "Dealer Book" that backs that up (see the very last line on the right side, under the heading "Trim Features"):

Now, the really interesting part is this; while it appears that you could in fact order a Type LT interior on a Sport Coupe Z28 (as several of you apparently have!), the unanswered question seems to be were BOTH Type LT interiors available on the Sport Coupe Z28 (ie; the base Type LT vinyl AND the optional Type LT cloth), or was it just the Type LT optional cloth interior .... ??? Haven't seen that one answered anywhere in the factory literature that I have!

Having now seen these photo's, does anyone have a Z28 with the Type LT vinyl seats???

Other ad I found

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Mark
1970 Z28
Home Page on 1970 Z28
http://members.rogers.com/mlvd/

Mark, that's the infamous ad for the '77 Z! It's the ad that stopped me dead in my tracks when I first saw it in the Army Times (I still have that very ad!), and made me immediately cancel the order for my Pontiac Can Am, without even reading or knowing a single thing more about the car!!!

As far as the emblem (and the stripes!) go, they weren't just color keyed to the exterior color, but the interior color as well. If a white car had a black interior, it got one set of stripes/emblems; if a white car had a white (or buckskin) interior, it got a different colored set. Never have seen a silver '77 Z with any other color interior but black though!

Start with this one, from an issue of Road Test magazine (that's the writer posing on the nose)

Great looking car, isn't it??? Notice right up fron the chrome bumpers (with optional bumper guards!), and chrome lower rocker spear! Also has chrome window trim! Take a closer look, you'll see the Type LT badging on the rear roof pillar. The tires are the production "Steel Gards" though! If you look real close, you'll see that the center caps don't have the "Z28" ID in them, they have a plain "bowtie" logo. The Z28 name appears NOWHERE on this car (has the regular "Camaro" name on the front fender!)

This car was painted chocolate brown, by the way, and was a 4 speed if I remember correctly.

Here's a rear view of that same car from that same issue:

Note the Type LT brushed aluminum tail light panel!

Last photo appeared in Car Craft magazine a bit later, as photographed at a drag strip test session:

Hope you all enjoy!!! I'll check back later tonight, I have to head out for a while!

Nothing in the 1977 brochure on Z/28. In the ordering guide Z/28 is not available on Type LT, only on standard camaro coupe.Chevrolet tech specs do not mention Z/28 as they are published early in the model year. None of the data books show any 77 Z/28 data or pictures.

But later found:

NUMBER IMPORTED FOR SALE IN
CANADA: (SAME MODEL NO. ONLY) 12, 111 ( 1,851 with Z/28; 782 with M/21 )

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Mark
1970 Z28
Home Page on 1970 Z28
http://members.rogers.com/mlvd/

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Originally posted by COPO:
How do I find my site that I created on Cardomain.com since the lowest year is 1975. I just added a 1969 Z28 for a start to see how it comes out.

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Mark, I don't have a "site" there that you personally can visit, I just registered with them and use the space for storing images to be downloaded onto here. It's nothing that anyone else can access.

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Originally posted by nwz28:
COPO, There was a mid-year reprint of the '77 Camaro brochure which has a brief description and photo of the Z-28. So there are 2 different '77 Camaro brochures. Also there were inserts, like Rich M mentioned that were sent out to add to the dealer books mid-year.

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Right on the money, Nick! The Camaro brochure was reprinted in January 1977 to include a small insert on the new Z28 on the top right corner of page 6. It looked like this:

This is the very same photo that appeared in the infamous full page Z28 ad.

As for the two different versions of the Camaro brochure that year (1977), here is a photo of both rear covers overlaying each other. Check out the dates at the bottom:

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But before I post that, how about one last peek at a '77 IROC Camaro with Z28 markings ... this is a color pic of AJ Foyt's car. It must have been taken at the Daytona Speedweeks introduction, because it was the last IROC event that year, taking place that same day as the Z28 "Press Party", and was the only time I've heard the IROC cars being around production '77 Z's, as they were that day.

and now for that article I mentioned:

http://www.alldata.com/TSB/yr.html