Fathom Green One Year Only?

[Bill #34162]

Was this color a 69 only color? If so, any idea were made. The black book doesn't list the numbers for 69. Thanks.

[Joe L.]

Re: Fathom Green One Year Only?

Bill-----

Fathom Green was a one-year-only color used for 1969. However, very similar colors using different names were used for 1967 and 70-72.

[Dennis M.]

Re: Fathom Green One Year Only?

Bill,

I did a spreadsheet a few years ago when I was doing the Birthday Book figures. I know '62, '69, '70, '73, and '74 did not have color numbers in the Black book or anywhere else that I could find. So I used some averaging from the previous and following years based on the numbers of similar colors and have the following total of 6,007 for the Green in 1969. Now keep in mind this may seem high considering there were 4,779 Green in '68, but 1969 was a much longer production year. I hope this helps. For the rest of the averages used and colors, here they are for 1969:
White - 2,350; Red - 3,669; Blue - 9,044; Black - 890; Gold - 4,241; Silver - 4,318; Yellow - 3,938; Maroon - 1,452; Orange - 2,852.
Now I did not consider any Primers or other special order colors that GM may have offered in these number.
Save The Wave,
Dennis