I have a black gold 1984 ta with recaro seats. Didn't know there was a recaro ta made that year and later found out my car matched many of the requirments. Seats, color, decals (5.0.HO). So i though sweet a recaro. To my demise I got around to running the vin and rpos.. a recaro it is not.. Apparently it came from the factory Light Camel Titanium primary with Light camel titanium secondary color. (anyone have a pic of this color), with bucket seats and the LG4 .. Oh well.. my lookalike still looks good and runs nice ..

 

Where did you run the codes? What resource did you use to decode them?

I don't know where some of these places get these intricate names for colors, but they're really rediculous... I'll see if I can dig out my firebird book that has paint chips and see what it says.

 

I can't find the book I'd need... the name for the paint code you listed sounds pretty... unrealistic. Unfortunately my Firebird book that has paint codes, paint chips, etc is unaccounted for... which means its probably in a box in my garage. Since I've moved my garage looks like the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

 

And it doesn't make any sense either!!!

Camel is tan, titanium is grey...am I the only one who sees this color as being absolutely impossible???

 

we ran the vin on the GM parts computer and thats the color.. and it matches the rpo decoder off this site ..

65L : SECONDARY COLOR,EXTERIOR, LT CAMEL TITANIUM (91)
65U : PRIMARY COLOR, EXTERIOR, LT CAMEL TITANIUU (91)

here is the printoff from GM's computer



btw.. the underline ones I havn't been able to find from this sites rpo decoder..

 

 

I wonder what the 'special performance package' was? Could that be an L69?

 

thanks for the rpo info.. the car is now black with dark gold (darker than the gold in the 85+ ground fx) .. so is this the way it came?

 

btw.. cowl? there are no numbers on the back of the hood? im not exactly sure what you mean by that..

 

oh .. and one more thing.. my car has the standard inward dented 15" TA wheels painted gold.. and this rpo comes up ..

N78 : WHEEL, I4 X 6, ALUMINUM, HUB CAP, WHEEL NUTS

is that one off or has someone changed wheels?

 

 

ok here is what the cowl says and here is the rpo sheet..

they both have 65l and 65u.. which gms computer and this sites rpo thing says is that beige.. your sure there not.. ?



sorry for the messy writing..

 

 

Whoa! Hold on here! You got RPO codes for an '84??? This looks like the Bell & Howell catalog system used at most GM dealerships. I thought the VIN/RPO database was for 1990 and newer vehicles only! More details please!

 

so where could I go about finding a acurate rpo detector for my 84' ??

 

Don't always trust internet RPO decoders. I ran the RPOs for my old Monte Carlo and it said the car was silver with a black interior and it was maroon and had a tan interior. I was the second owner and there was no way the previous one changed all that around.

 

im getting the same answers from GM parts rpo decoder that im getting from here.. so anyone know where I could accurately tell??

 

The best place to start would be with documentation from 1984. RPO codes and paint codes change frequently. Gm's going to show the most recent definition. The rpo codes on this site appear to be circa 1991.

 

ok cool.. so where would I look to find that.. a place with all sorts of GM car records? a place in the phone book perhaps? I have no idea.. so if someone could let me it would be much appreciated as I would like to look into my cars past a bit..

 

 

cool.. thanks for the info (btw, where did you find it?).. I have a few questions if you don't mind...

so was it monotone then?

65L - SECONDARY COLOR, EXTERIOR, DARK GOLD WING METALLIC
65U - PRIMARY COLOR, EXTERIOR, DARK GOLD WING METALLIC

I've never seen that before if it was, does someone have a pic of a gold/gold 84 TA..

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What is the 87: 2 Door Plain Back Coupe Special all about ??

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and what is the WY6 - SPECIAL PERFORMANCE PACKAGE ??

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oh, one more thing.. the car now has a screw-on antenna.. how much work would it be to make it power again?

thanks again for all the info...

 

 

ok great.. again thanks alot for all the info..