1967-1974 Chevrolet Camaro and Nova — enter a VIN and we’ll read off the division, series, body, engine, model year and assembly plant straight from the factory codes.
Where to find it: Driver's-side dashboard, visible through the windshield. Also stamped on a pad on the engine block (partial VIN) and on the cowl tag under the hood.
The cowl tag
Paint & trim codes
The VIN tells you the car; the cowl tag under the hood carries the factory paint, trim, axle and build date. Here are the Camaro exterior paint codes for the two definitive years:
1969 Camaro
10 Tuxedo Black · 40 Butternut Yellow · 50 Dover White · 51 Dusk Blue · 52 Garnet Red · 53 Glacier Blue · 55 Azure Turquoise · 57 Fathom Green · 59 Frost Green · 61 Burnished Brown · 63 Champagne · 65 Olympic Gold · 67 Burgundy · 69 Cortez Silver · 71 LeMans Blue · 72 Hugger Orange · 76 Daytona Yellow · 79 Rallye Green
1970 Camaro
10 Classic White · 14 Cortez Silver · 17 Shadow Gray · 19 Tuxedo Black · 25 Astro Blue · 28 Fathom Blue · 43 Citrus Green · 45 Green Mist · 48 Forest Green · 50 Gobi Beige · 52 Sunflower Yellow · 55 Champagne Gold · 58 Autumn Gold · 63 Desert Sand · 65 Hugger Orange · 75 Cranberry Red · 78 Black Cherry
Exterior paint color code (2-digit numeric for 1969-1972 Camaro)
Interior trim code
Build date (month number + week letter A-E)
Assembly plant abbreviation (NOR, LOS, VN, WRN)
Rear axle ratio code
Transmission code
Honest about the limits
1967-1968 Camaro used letter-based paint codes (e.g. A=Tuxedo Black, C=Ermine White) rather than two-digit numeric codes; full letter tables exist publicly but are omitted here to avoid year-mixing.
1970-1972 Camaro interior trim tables were only partially available; consult camaros.org or nastyz28.com.
1971-1972 Camaro paint code tables not included here (the 1970 table is the closest reference).
1972 Nova exact two-digit paint code numbers were not fully captured; color names are listed -- consult novaresource.org for the numeric codes.
1968-1971 Nova paint tables omitted; consult novaresource.org.
Fisher Body line-3 option codes on Nova cowl tags are not publicly decoded.
Oshawa, Canada plant (code 0) for 1968-1971 Nova is single-source and omitted.
This tool decodes the 13-character VIN; the cowl tag also carries paint/trim/axle/transmission/build-date codes (partly documented above). For complete cowl-tag decoding consult camaros.org (Camaro) or novaresource.org (Nova).
1972+ horsepower ratings are SAE NET (lower than pre-1972 SAE gross; not necessarily weaker engines).
Codes: Public GM factory VIN and cowl-tag codes reproduced from camaros.org, novaresource.org, news.classicindustries.com, and nastyz28.com. All codes are factual factory data, not proprietary.
