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FJ6 (1970) / GF7 (1971) — Sassy Grass (Dodge) / Green Go (Plymouth)

Chrysler high-impact saturated green. Dodge called it Sassy Grass; Plymouth called it Green Go. 1970 code FJ6; renamed GF7 for 1971. Final year 1972 in tiny volumes.

color swatch

#3AA645

closest-approximation hex from the vocab. Real factory paint shifts under the sun and after fifty years; treat the chip as a starting point, not a match.

chemistry & process

Single-stage acrylic enamel chemistry

ForMatter holds the chemistry, application process, restoration paths, and where-to-buy for this paint generation. Plenum holds the codes; ForMatter holds the matter.

Sassy Grass / Green Go was the high-impact green entry in Chrysler's 1970–1971 paint program — distinct from FJ5 (Sublime / Limelight), which is a luminous citrus-lime. FJ6 is darker and more saturated, closer to a clean meadow green than to a citrus.

1970 used the F-prefix code FJ6; the 1971 reorganization to G-prefix codes renamed it GF7. Same color, two codes depending on year. 1972 was the last year, in very small numbers — the high-impact program contracted hard for 1972 as insurance and emissions pressure squeezed the muscle market.

Per Dodge Garage's high-impact retrospective, Dodge sold the color as 'Sassy Grass' and Plymouth sold it as 'Green Go'. Dealer order sheets of the day used whichever marque was on the lot; today the two names get used interchangeably in collector conversation but the build documentation tracks the marque. Earlier Plenum versions had this pair attributed in reverse and to a different code (FK2); the slug is retained as paint-fk2 for backward link compatibility.

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