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Originally Posted by davepl
My more interesting question is if people know of other large fleet COPO orders that we see kicking around today with custom colors.
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Back to the original question, around here we had:
Orange - Grand Trunk Rail Road
Light blue/white - Consumers Energy
Bright yellow - County road commision
Dark Blue - Michigan State Police
Each agency had their own specification of what the paint color was to be, and sometimes provided the necessary quantity of paint.
Paint was added to a separate "paint pot" in the paint shop, which was a special set up of lines and guns for low volume production, or loaded into the "repair line" system. This helps mimimize the waste from purging between color changes, as opposed to filling the whole paint system. Trucks were usually "batch built", meaning small blocks of several in a row, until the whole order was completed.
The deviation from production could be not just color but also a deviation in paint breaks and two tone patterns as well.
K