1972 Chevelle Paint Codes

Notes:
1. Additional colors were offered on Canadian Chevrolet models that were not offered on their U.S. built counterparts. Whether all of these additional colors were available on Chevelles is not known but many were.

18 ~ Charcoal Gray
19 ~ Tuxedo Black
25 ~ Mediterranean Blue
28 ~ Fathom Blue Metallic
46 ~ Oasis Green Metallic
54 ~ Desert Gold Metallic
58 ~ Turin Tan
62 ~ Driftwood
69 ~ Aegean Brown Metallic

The lower body panel on El Camino for Argent Silver is DuPont 9296L or Ditzler (PPG) color number is DQE-8568.

Even black was a special order color for 1972 and Carolina Blue was still popular.

Special Paint (RPO ZP3) was coded differently from different plants. As seen here, this Kansas City example put two dashes ( - - ) on the trim tag itself where other plants may have simply left the paint code area blank (like the 1971 example shown above) in the paint code position on the trim tag. If you have a special paint ordered Chevelle, please fill out the survey form here and let us know where the car was built and what the trim tag indicates.