Cowl tag help please

SoFloG

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Could anybody tell me what I'm looking at here? Thanks
 

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E= 1984 model year
04B= 2nd week of April, 1984 scheduled build date
1= Chevrolet
GW80= Elky
R= Arlington, TX assembly plant
193298 = Fisher Body body number
27L/27U = Lower/Upper paint code-- Dark blue metallic
Lacquer= obvious
22N= Dark Blue Vinyl interior
A65= Split bench with arm rest
09 6948 - another one of those mystery numbers that nobody's convinced me yet of what that actually represents.
 
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SoFloG

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E= 1984 model year
04B= 2nd week of April, 1984 scheduled build date
1= Chevrolet
GW80= Elky
R= Arlington, TX assembly plant
193298 = Fisher Body body number
27L/27U = Lower/Upper paint code-- Dark blue metallic
Lacquer= obvious
22N= Dark Blue Vinyl interior
A65= Split bench with arm rest
09 6948 - another one of those mystery numbers that nobody's convinced me yet of what that actually represents.
Thank you good sir. I knew you'd be the man for the job. So, the car was one color originally, unlike the current 2 tone?
 
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69hurstolds

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According to the body tag it was one color. Now, if there was a package that added a secondary color after the fact, like some did, it MAY or MAY NOT end up on the body tag. The older Conquista package comes to mind, for instance.

Example- 1984 H/O body tag has 17L and 17U for body color. We all know the bottom was painted black. Sometimes all the documentation wasn't super-detailed.
 
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SoFloG

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According to the body tag it was one color. Now, if there was a package that added a secondary color after the fact, like some did, it MAY or MAY NOT end up on the body tag. The older Conquista package comes to mind, for instance.

Example- 1984 H/O body tag has 17L and 17U for body color. We all know the bottom was painted black. Sometimes all the documentation wasn't super-detailed.
Silver top and silver bottom with the dark metallic blue in the middle. The whole interior/jams are blue and the outside appears to have been repainted, but maybe not. It has the H/O factory engine from what I can tell with the 601 heads.

I want to decide on a color for repaint and kinda feel like going back to factory would be a good move.
 
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I'm no expert on El Caminos, but it APPEARS you have a NON-D91/Z15 optioned vehicle. (Z15 it wouldn't be for sure as they were only two tone.) That is to say the 27 upper and lower on the body tag says there wasn't any 27M. You should theoretically have 17L and 17U silver according to the chart below with a 27M for the dark blue center and hood. You apparently have the third chart setup without the silver upper and lower. Do you have a "Conquista" emblem on the dash or a SPID sticker you can verify for sure or not you have or don't have D91?

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I'm no expert on El Caminos, but it APPEARS you have a NON-D91/Z15 optioned vehicle. (Z15 it wouldn't be for sure as they were only two tone.) That is to say the 27 upper and lower on the body tag says there wasn't any 27M. You should theoretically have 17L and 17U silver according to the chart below with a 27M for the dark blue center and hood. You apparently have the third chart setup without the silver upper and lower. Do you have a "Conquista" emblem on the dash or a SPID sticker you can verify for sure or not you have or don't have D91?

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No special emblems, and this is all I've got for stickers
 

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Yeah, they say in the literature that the two tone w/D91 has chrome separation where the colors meet or something. Or decal with the SS.
 
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