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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?
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?