A LOOK AT SOME OF THE GREAT (AND NOT SO GREAT) GREEN PAINT COLORS OFFERED BY GM ON OUR FAVORITE AMERICAN SPORTS CAR |
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 | | 1957’s Cascade Green was not really much of a green, but more of an aquamarine or greenish turquoise. GM called it green, nonetheless. The color first appeared in 1956, and lasted only until the end of the 1957 model year. |
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 | | In 1960 Cascade Green returned… but in name only. This new green was much closer to a metallic mint color, which was very popular in the 1960s. However, Corvette only kept this option around for a year, before dropping it again for 1961. Green would not return to the Corvette palette for another half decade. |
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 | | 1965: Glen Green was a rich, dark green that in some lights could appear nearly black. The dark metallic green, especially when paired with a tan top, lent the Vette some of the look of the Jaguar E-type it its traditional British Racing Green. While the Corvette may not have offered a V12 under the hood, it did have a big block 396 V8 available. |
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 | | In 1966, GM introduced MoSport Green, which was not too far away from the 1960 Cascade Green, though a bit more metallic, with a touch of silver. You almost couldn’t pick a green further away from the dark Glen Green offered just a year before. MoSport was a race track in Ontario, Canada, that hosted sports car racing, continuing the legacy of naming Corvette colors after famous race tracks. |
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 | | 1967 saw the introduction of Goodwood Green to the Corvette color palette. Ironically, the last sports car race at Goodwood Circuit was the year before it became a color you could order on your Corvette. Goodwood Green is slightly lighter than the dark Glen Green, and is in fact very nearly British Racing Green, which makes sense since the UK is where Goodwood is located. |
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 | | Finally, in 1968, Chevrolet just came right out and said it: This is British Green, officially. This color looked great on the all new 1968 body style’s curves, and is about halfway between Glen Green and Goodwood Green. |
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 | | 1969 saw the third different dark green offered on Corvette in three years, and all three truly are slightly different. Fathom Green is not quite as dark as British Green and looks more mossy and organic. All three of these paints has a unique code, and require strict painting expertise to get them “just right”. |
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 | | Yet another iteration of Chevrolet’s British Racing Green, this one was called Donnybrooke, and yes that is the correct spelling of the color name. In 1971, there was a nearly identical color, but it was given yet another code and name; Brands Hatch Green. |
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 | | Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin isn’t just the RV capital of America; it is also home to Road America, one of the oldest racecourses in the country. In 1972, Breaking away from the British Racing Green colors of the past few years Chevrolet applied a uniquely American green to its unique sports car called Elkhart Green. (Brands Hatch Green returned in 1973 – now called Blue Green – and in 1975, Dark Green was offered, which was very similar to Fathom Green, but a different paint number.) |
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 | | 1975 saw the introduction of one of the brightest green paint colors Corvette ever offered, called simply Bright Green. In recent years a similar color was offered on the boxy Scion xB, and the 5th generation Camaro, but it didn’t look as vibrant as it does on the C3 Vette. This was a one year only color. |
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 | | At the end of the C3 era Chevrolet offered a unique Silver Green paint, which could be ordered with a matching interior. It was not very popular, and thus you seldom see them around today in their original colors. |
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 | | Green returned as a Corvette color option in 1990 as Polo Green Metallic made its debut. the color was offered in the 1991 model year as well, and starting in 1992 and running through the end of C4 production, a similar shade (Polo Green II Metallic) was offered. |
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 | | In 1997 (and again in 1998), the new C5 Corvette was offered in Fairway Green Metallic (though only approximately 378 were built during that 2 year span). |
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 | | The 2000 model year saw the introfuction of Dark Bowling Green as an option in the Corvette color palette. It was offered as an option in 2001 as well. |
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 | | GM took a break from green for all of its C6 Corvette production (2005-2013), but in 2014, with the introduction of the C7, green returned to the color palette (albeit for the 2014 production year only). The color was once again named for a famous race track: Lime Rock Green, and 1,577 total cars were produced. |
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 | | 2020 saw the release of the C8 Corvette, and though we are currently 6 years into C8 production, very few green colors have been offered. This 2024 is shown in Cacti Green, offered that year only. |
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 | | This is the most recent green paint to be offered by GM, on the 2026 Corvette: Roswell Green Metallic. |
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