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Model year 1981

1981 Corvette Interior Colors and Trim Codes

Six interior colours were offered for 1981, in cloth or leather, and this is the first year a power driver seat could be ordered. Below is every trim code and what it came with.

Interior colours6for the 1981 model year
MaterialsCloth and Leatheras listed on the factory chart
Leatherstandardno extra cost interior option
Trim codeon the trim tagdriver's side, open the door

1981 interior trim codes

Every interior colour offered on the 1981 Corvette and the trim code for it in each material. These are the codes stamped on the trim tag.
Interior colourClothLeather
Charcoal19C192
Medium Rednot offered722
Camel64C642
Dark Blue29C292
Silvernot offered152
Medium Cinnabar67C672

How to read your trim code

From 1975 the trim code carries a letter that tells you the material at a glance. A code ending in V is vinyl and one ending in C is cloth, while an all-numeric code ending in 2 is leather. So 19V and 192 are the same black, one in vinyl and one in leather. Read the code off the trim tag riveted to the driver's side of the body, just inside the door opening, alongside the paint code. It is the only surviving evidence of what the car originally had once the seats have been recovered.

What each 1981 interior came with

This is the same factory chart the 1981 colour page carries, turned round. That page starts from the paint and tells you what could go inside. This one starts from the trim code, which is the way round you need when you have read the tag and want to know whether the car left the factory in the combination it wears now.

Read the other way round: the exterior colours Chevrolet recommended for each interior. Other combinations could be special ordered.
Interior colourSuggested with these exteriors
Charcoalno suggested combination listed
Medium Redno suggested combination listed
Camelno suggested combination listed
Dark Blueno suggested combination listed
Silverno suggested combination listed
Medium Cinnabarno suggested combination listed

Seats and trim in 1981

A power driver seat became available for the first time in a Corvette, RPO A42, driver side only. The headlamp and wiper switch bezels were colour-keyed to the interior in 1981 where 1980 used black regardless, which is a detail worth checking on a car claimed to be original.

The interior chart for every model year from 1968 to 1982 is on the C3 interior trim page. The exterior paint codes for this year, with how many cars wore each colour, are on the 1981 colour page, and the full option list is on the 1981 specifications page.