[davepl]

When I was growing up in Saskatchewan, almost all of our cars were "poverty" cars without air, power windows, or most interesting options. The trucks you saw generally had at best a 307 or 350.

There were a few 396 trucks running around, but they were all purple. Legend held that there was a fleet order that got abandoned and they had been built that way as a batch.

Was there a factory purple? I guess that's my first question. Never seen it on a color card.

My more interesting question is if people know of other large fleet COPO orders that we see kicking around today with custom colors.

Up in Sask there were a lot of orange trucks for "Sask Power", the local utility. When they were used up they'd shoot them white, sell them off, and they'd peel 40% within a couple of years!