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Re: Rarest Paint Color?
I know this post is ancient but I can tell you what a manual throttle was valuable for. My uncle showed me how to stack hay bales from the fields into the truck all alone (gee, thanks?). Drive to the hayfield, put truck in granny gear, roll the window down, step out of the moving truck and walk beside the truck and throw the bales into the bed as you reach in the window to steer the truck to the next bale. The manual throttle was used to fine tune the truck speed to your throwing pace.
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Not sure why the colors look different in the picture. Josjunk may be right, but I thought it was because of the two buildings I was in front of, I see the reflection/ shadow on the box of one building and on the front fender of the other building. I thought I remember someone mentioning this awhile back and saying that the beds were painted on another paint assembly line. I haw the slightest clue. Next time up to see the truck I will pull it out into the daylight and look again.
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A picture from that day of pictures showing how the buildings perfectly aligned with the box yet proves nothing. I am not the original owner, I was only maybe 2 in 69 lol so I do not know all the history of it.
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Back in the '60s, cars could have what appeared to be different shades when comparing the front sheet metal with the rest of the body. Everything but that front sheet metal was primed a different color. The primer colors were red and black (don't recall which way it went), and colors that don't hide the primer well, like yellow and silver, were the most obvious. It is possible that the paint on these trucks has been polished enough to make a difference visible. I'm only offering up a possibility. I don't know how the factory primed these trucks.
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Hi. I'm normally over in 60-66 section, so I'm totally just crashing this discussion. I thought I saw something once this weird purple colour was something to do with the RCMP (the mounties). Not sure if I saw that on this board, or if was in a local (Saskatchewan) for sale ad at some time.
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My truck is a 1970 cst two tone metallic gold. dark gold #560 on the roof only, and medium gold #526 on the remainder and interior. From what i can see, the dark gold #560 was a 1970 only color and only used on trucks. How rare actually is this paint? My truck has not been restored yet, but about 40 years of crappy paint jobs have mostly peeled away to reveal the original below. I intend to repaint original, and heard two tone metallics were especially rare.
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This is my truck colors.
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And the glovebox tag.
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The whole truck.
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I think gold/drk gold would have been a good looking combination. Not common or we'd see more of them.
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Wow...can't say I've ever seen that combo before...pretty cool!
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I'm thinking that dark gold/gold combo will look pretty nice. Is it an original 4x4?
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my 1970 with factory paint , yellow /olive .going to keep colors when I re-paint it.
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Hotsy- nice color combo- glad you’re keeping it
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X2 on the cool and unusual color combo! It looks like a nice truck already.
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Code 561 is the opposite with the Med Gold Poly on the roof, Dark Gold Poly on the body. 527 is a 1970 only color, so, in that respect, it's kinda rare. The Custom Two Tones were not that common, so the combo is even nicer to have (in my opinion). 526 was held over through 1972, but not available in the Custom Two Tone configuration (and it may have been a GMC-only color, but don't quote me on that). Although there have been a couple 560/561 paint trucks popping up on CL in the past 6 months or so, they are far from commonplace. Btw, per your SPID, your truck was originally a 2WD truck. |
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Not factory 2 tone but done somewhat in the 2 tone styling adding the lighter green. The darker olive I believe is the original paint though.
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