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Originally posted by kenny77:
Rich.........The LT seats were different than the regular optional cloth ones in a sport coupe and I had never seen those in a Z28. So how was I wrong?

I guess you could order just about anything. But how many were really special ordered anyway from the factory in such a short model year?? I think any seats like that got in there AFTER it was delivered to the dealer/customer.
Just my opinion, I was 17 then and looked at a lot of these cars. thanks >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Ken

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Kenny, first of all, I don't mean to say things to put anyone on the defensive, so I'm sorry if that's how I came across. I'm not here to insult anyone else, we're all here to learn from each other.

Yes, the Sport Coupe and LT each had their own optional cloth interiors, and they looked distinctly different. And though the Z28 was a mid-year offering (Feb.), there were still 6 plus months where you could special order one any way you wanted to, including with the optional (on the Z28 only) LT cloth interior, if you so desired. And I am here to tell you that people DID just that, because I've seen them with my own eyes going all the way back to the late '70s (and I doubt so many people went to the trouble and expense of changing those seats over back then).

I'll finish this later, I was just called away.

The pics of the "unmolested" copper colored Z28 show a cloth seat in there alright, along with power windows. But in 77 and 78 with the power window block off hole cap thing had the same style Z28 insert emblem that is on the wheel caps. The photo shows the ones in the car as having the standard Camaro crest emblem on them.

The other thing that makes you wonder is you see a lot of these two tone interior combinations these 75-77 years. Then you also see alot of solid one color ones too. I have heard it explained many ways, but I still wonder about it.

With parts as cheap, plentiful and interchangable for so many years with these cars it's hard to tell...Heck...I can remember guys at Super Chevy Sunday Swap Meet selling whole, complete pristine Camaro interiors for $250. And there I think lies a big part of the problem when trying to sort out what's what????>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Ken

Dan, thanks for the pics, by the way. And did anyone notice in Dan's pics that this unmolested '77 Z has bright rain drip moldongs on the edge of the roof, even though the rest of the chrome trim was blacked out? How many '77 Zs have you seen with that option?!!! Also, that car has the original Steelgard tires on it!

Kenny, I saw a number of '77 Zs back when they were new or fairly new, that had the LT interiors as an option. They weren't swapped in back then, it was too expensive back then, and not really worth doing.

I also saw back then more than one Z28 with power windows that had the plain Camaro "block off" instead of the Z28 emblem. Who knows why, but those cars again were new or fairly new, and that's just the way they were built. Funny things happen in an assembly plant!

By the way, that burnt copper everyone keeps talking about was actually called Orange Mettalic! And the upper door panels on an LT interior (whether cloth or vinyl) had an armrest with a built in pull handle, very much different than a base Sport Coupe door panel (either cloth or vinyl).

As for Dan's unmolested interior, while it does have cloth seats, they don't match the pattern or style of the cloth LT seats in the '77 Camaro brochure, and his photo also has the base Sport Coupe upper door panel, not the LT....

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/7/web/511000-511999/511223_13_full.jpg

Here again is the factory literature on exterior/interior color selection. It says there are only three recommended seat colors for the 1977 Z28; black, white, and buckskin (doesn't say you can't order any other color interior for that year though, it just doesn't have a recommended stripe color for any other choices).

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/7/web/511000-511999/511223_7_full.jpg

[This message has been edited by Dan77 (edited June 03, 2005).]

By the way that interior on that 13,000 mile car is exactly like mine, it's a base sport cloth interior.

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Originally posted by nwz28:
Rich...No they don't. Jeff Betz tried to get one for his '77 Z and they didn't have it.

By the way that interior on that 13,000 mile car is exactly like mine, it's a base sport cloth interior.

-Nick

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Thanks Nick, that's what I thought on both counts!