Phil Knight's Valiant Station Wagon & Questions about Green

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amphibious

Discussion Starter · #1 · Aug 10, 2013

Hey everyone... I have a few questions that pertain to the famous "Green Valiant station wagon" owned by Nike co-founder Phil Knight. While the make, model, and color of the car is quite well known, nobody seems to know year.

The company was started in 1964 but I can't get an accurate answer as to what year the whole "selling out of the back of his green station wagon" got started, so I can't pinpoint the model.

I'm hoping that only one model year was available in green, but I doubt that's the case.

We know that...

It' was a station wagon.
The company started in 64, but we don't know when the selling got going, likely sometime in the mid to late 60s.
It was green.

Lastly... I know absolutely nothing about classic cars. I'm sure there's a directory of colors somewhere. Can somebody point me to it, or give me a color code/info on the range of greens that were used on the Valiant

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valiant67

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#2 · Aug 10, 2013

Green was a very popular color then so I doubt you'd find a year without green. I found one site that says the car was a 1963, who knows if it is correct or not.
Here's one place you can start as far as colors:
http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?manuf=Chrysler&model=Valiant&con=mo&year=1963&rows=50