Enclosed is a chart I worked up of C3 exterior paint colors (click for better detail - 15 years makes for a wide chart). Paint names are from the Corvette Black Book. Approximate colors (and I'm sure they are approximate) are from paintref.com Lines connecting color names mark when the paint code stayed the same but the color name changed. All mistakes are mine, but I'd appreciate knowing about them.

The question: why were there so many color changes in 1982, even from the 1981 Bowling Green colors? One would have thought that things would be relatively quiet in the final C3 year - and few 1982 colors carried over to 1984 ...