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A Paint By Any Other Name . . .
When I got my '01 Corvette in August of 2000, I chose the new-for-2001 Quicksilver color. I usually buy a bottle of touch-up paint just to have around, but when I called my local Chevy dealer and gave them my car's paint code, the color they had in stock was masquerading under another name--some lowly, dull name for the silver used on Impalas.
Turned out it was the very same paint, of course. The Corvette had just borrowed the already-existing Impala color and jazzed up the name.
Now that I have an Impulse Blue GTO, I'm wondering if I haven't seen this color somewhere else. It sometimes reminds me of the Electron Blue used on Vettes, but of course I haven't seen the two side-by-side. They'd probably look radically different if I did.
Anyway, the color code for Impulse Blue Metallic is 24U WA938 J. Just out of curiosity, I called the parts department at a nearby Chevy dealer. They didn't have the paint in stock, but the computer did refer to it by the correct Impulse Blue name. Dang! I was kinda hoping I'd uncover a vast paint-naming cover-up, and that there was a Saturn out there somewhere tooling around in my GTO's blue paint.
Anybody know if this color appears elsewhere in the GM lineup?
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