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Poking around a salvage yard in Dayton and the paint code on a 1971 Chevelle stopped me cold
I was hunting for a door shell in Dayton last week and noticed a paper build sheet still taped under the back seat of a 1971 Chevelle. The paint code read 43, which a guy there said meant Lime Green Metallic, and only around 2 percent of that year's cars got it. I have been spraying cars for 12 years and never knew GM hid that sheet in the springs. Does anyone here pull those sheets before they scrap a body, or do you just let them go?
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casey_barnes1mo ago
Had a buddy who pulled a build sheet out of a 70 Nova years back and it turned out the car had a weird stripe delete option nobody knew about. He sold that sheet on a forum for way more than he paid for the whole car, which still blows my mind. I mean most yards crush stuff without ever checking under the seats so those sheets just turn to dust. Maybe it's just me but if you are already pulling parts, taking two minutes to peek at the springs seems like a no brainer. That Lime Green code is a cool find too, 2 percent is rare enough that somebody out there is hunting for proof their car came that way.
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ninal911mo ago
Did you ever go back and check some of the other cars you passed on? I found a build sheet in a 68 Chevelle once just stuffed in the back seat springs and the guy running the yard had no clue what it even was. Sold it for 300 bucks to a guy restoring one, which was way more than the door panel I went there to grab lol.
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