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Originally posted by Dan77:
Rich M. On black or white cars, have you ever seen a black interior with the gold and brown stripe package? Are you saying all black exterior/black interior cars have red orange stripe packages, and all black exterior/tan interior cars have gold and brown stripe packages?

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Dan,
I have the chart that dictates this (though not beside me at this second) and I believe that the answer is yes, unless you knew enough to order a different set of stripes by using the correct order code for it. This holds true with all of the cars I have ever seen over the years, as well (and that's quite a few, I'll tell you that!)

I have begun compiling build sheet info into a format that will allow me to look for common items between individual cars, as well as to note differences between cars.

There are over one hundred blocks of information on a build sheet, and I am trying to identify what each of them was there for, as well. Better people than me have already tackled this on F Bodies, and I am using their research as well.

I currently have build sheets from a handful of you, perhaps I have more but haven't finished locating them in my notes (almost finished with organizing them, by the way).

If you sent me your build sheets, or posted them on this board, please check in here to let me know, or e-mail me at
rmcdermott1@surfbest.net so that I can be sure that I have a sufficient amount to start comparisons with. Thanks.

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Originally posted by Dan77:
Usually the brown exterior cars had the tan/brown stripe package. Has anyone ever seen a brown exterior with a red/orange stripe package? It sure looks like the ad in the back of the 77 brochure has a picture of a brown car that appears to have the red/orange stripe kit. Any opinions?

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Dan, the answer to that question lays at the question of whether anyone has ever seen a brown exterior color Z28 that DID NOT have a tan interior.

I have seen white exterior cars with a tan interior that had the tan striping, and a white exterior car with a black interior that had the orange. The same holds true for a black exterior car with those same interior colors.

Of all the '77 Z28s I have seen over the years, I don't recall ever seeing a brown exterior car with an interior color other than tan!

As for the brochure, when I first saw that ad for the '77 Z (in brown with the tan interior) I also thought the car had an orange stripe package, and told the dealer that that was the color I wanted to order. Information we have today shows that without knowing the proper code numbers (and a dealership couldn't have had those codes in their hands back then!), that would not have been able to happen.

I think the car in the brochure and original print ad was an early production car that must have had the orange stripes instead of the production tan stripes that the exterior/interior combination called for.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&category=280&item=6961246487&rd=1

It's a rare one, don't miss out!

Here's another:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=280&item=6960794481&rd=1

I just finished another pretty important part of the '77 Z28 Project..... scanning and filing every magazine article or road test in my collection. About 18 in all, an average of 4 pages each!

Add to that the Factory Literature I've already scanned (Mid Year Dealer Album Insert, Press Kit, etc.) and the dealer brochures (regular Camaro one, and "Sportiest Chevy" one), and that's quite a file.

I've also organized every e-mail I may have received from other board members, or people of note that I have contacted for additional research sources (retired GM people, current Chevrolet PR people, magazine writers past and present, Camaro historians, and on and on!)

I also have set up "templates" in which to place data (cowl tags, build sheets, VIN's, etc.) to compile and then compare data between cars (between the cowl tag and build sheets, there's about 150 different items to enter PER CAR!!!!). Now I just have to enter the data I've already received from a handful of you. (IF YOU OWN A 1977 Z28 AND HAVE A BUILD SHEET THAT YOU HAVE NOT SENT ME YET, PLEASE CONTACT ME AT; rmcdermott1@surfbest.net TO ADD YOUR VEHICLE DATA TO THIS PROJECT, WHICH MAY YET BECOME A 1977 Z28 REGISTRY!!!)

I received a much anticipated call from ...... Jerry Palmer!!!!

Jerry was chief designer of the Chevrolet III design studio and had a huge part in the development of the 1977 Z28, and was responsible for the appearence of that car.

We touched base for a short while, and agreed to talk in detail later. I'll keep you all posted.