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What is the color that you see the least on these truck, or not at all.

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Maroon. Are you trying to be different? Or just quizzing us?

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Different...hell yes

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The 1969 only maroon seems rare, and I have only seen this yellow on a couple of other trucks.

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I don't know....the primer combo on my truck was the only one I'd ever seen like it. I called it grey. Neighbor said it looked green. I think he's nuts. So did his wife when she ran him off....:lol:

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There are some trucks out there with a "Special Paint" code. I have one of them. I have only seen one other truck this color. The outside has only been painted once and I did it so I know its original. The interior has never been touched( all factory paint) and I have the original glovebox with it listed

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Plum poly? Thats what the Autocolor Library has that is closest to Maroon.

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maroon bedsides

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I was thinking of painting my truck this color of maroon but I don't think its an original color.

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Ice Coral Pink. It's a Canadian GMC color from either 71 or 72 only...


Chuck

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That was gonna be my guess....

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Maroon was pretty common around here but I have never seen a pink (coral) truck except on this board.

Lance beat me to the Ice Coral Pink...love that color...LOL!

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Ice Coral Pink hands down. I think every dealer in Canada got 1 of them.

The 69 GMC marron was definatly not common. Had one. Very nice color.

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You need to differentiate between production color,Fleet (like that yellow),special paint,Chevy vs GMC,and US vs CN.The special paint colors will all be rare in comparison.The Canadian models offered a couple special paint options in their line.So it`s kind of not apples to apples.There rarest production colors would be the one year only ones.
I had a light grey`69 Stepside that was special paint.It also came from the factory with red wheels...all 5.

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It doesn't matter what year or country or factory or not. I just want to know the one color that you have either never seen or have only seen 1-2 of. I want a color people will say "Wow, never seen that color on that truck!"

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When you are talkning about non factory colors, there are any colors that I can't think of that I've seen before. There were so many of these built, and so many fixed up that its going to be hard to come up with a never before seen paint scheme. With that beig said, since I prefer factory colors, you don't see dark gold or Medum gold irridescent that much. Grapefruit is another cool, but less often seen color.

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Where might I find grapefruit color paint? And the golds?

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Mine had a rust colored paint.Nevermind it was just rust :lol:

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67 GMC color Palomino, I've only seen it once and I bought the truck. Everything else I've seen a few times.
GMCPaul

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Here is my Ice Coral Pink you guys mentioned..

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You got a better pic of that brush guard???

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Def Ice Coral Pink!!!! Don't see many of those!!!!

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i've only seen a few black trucks from the factory, but maybe thats a regional thing.

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I am on vacation in Perdido Key, FL right now, and I don't have all my truck pics on my laptop. I'll post some for you when I get back.

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I have seen 1 or 2 of those...That is N I C E

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So far its, Ice Coral Pink, and Grapefruit.

Btw, thanks 67_C-30

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yes.

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I had it at the 2006 Super Run In Red Deer !!

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I got parts out of a GMC that is Turqoise Poly with a teal colored interior and decided to paint mine that same color. It's the only one I've seen.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...k/IMG_3177.jpg

Also there was a really bright yellow that is rare.

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Mine is a factory dark gold, I have seen a lot of the light gold, and the copper gold trucks, but I have not seen any other dark gold. I have been debating on wheather to keep the factory color or not. i had it painted once in 1992 and kept it factory, I like the rareity of it, but I like these trucks in brighter colors as well. I was thinking of maby doing the 71 theam of white top, and white between the upper and lower trim, and the rest the factory dark gold. maby with some pearl in the clear over the white so it has some sparkle to match the metalic in the gold?

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I wish I would have know that maroon was rare. My 69 GMC is 517 maroon on the SPID. I may have stuck with that color. I wasn't totally fond of it so I changed it.

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Are you talkikng about the steering coloum color?? and dash? Or are you talking about the green outside color.

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SKCHEVOTA, I had a 70 Camaro that was Autumn Gold which is the same color in the cars. I think its code 58 in the cars. The truck name is Dark gold metallic. Same color though. Look it up.

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Although I like the color of all the trucks that ive seen in the past....I have always liked a Gunmetal color like some high quality carbon fibre.

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Actually, I know how to paint carbon fiber. Ed Hubbs is the man!

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The stering colum and dash bezel are the standard green the comes with most green trucksThe actual metal part of the dash and the outside color are the "Special Paint".

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I've never seen that Ice Pearl color in real life and thought the one's I had seen on here had to be custom color repaints.

Haven't seen too many of the original color mine was.

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Ice Pearl?

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I don`t think you understood my point on being more specific about your search.We can dream up all kinds of colors we`ve never seen or seen once.Then,there`s shades of each color.I`m not trying to be ridiculous.I think its because you used the word "rarest",which narrows it down to a single color,that got me thinking the search has to have some bounds.If you asked,"What are some rare colrs",then we wouldn`t need to limit it.There are factory pack colors and custom mixes.You need a basis to rate on or what`s the point?You could say "Baby Blue" and there was a light blue in the first few years from the factory,but it wasn`t called baby blue by GM and there could be a thousand shades of just Baby Blue and some will call it Sky Blue.As I said,even the factory had a list of colors offered each year,some only one year,some every year,some only GMC or Chevy,and some on both but more years on one brand then the others.Obviously a one year/one brand standard color would be rarest.But,a special paint would be even more rare.A non-factory color could be one of a kind.

I can think of alot of factory 67-72 colors that i`ve seen alot less,if ever,than Grapefruit.Then,there was a Pale Yellow in the earlier end that isn`t called Grapefruit but is only a shade different.You see Grapefruit (late color) more than the earlier version.Clean67 has that color on his`67 CST/20 CustomCamper.Palamino Tan on GMCs was a carry-over from the earlier years.Like Paul said,that`s a rare one.The `67 GMC project I`m building started with a Palamino Tan clip from Nebraska that I bought.It had perfect Custom badges and I bet that truck would have been a rarer bird than most.The Special Paint color I mentioned,Light Grey,I`ve only seen on the truck I had.Add the factory Red whaeels and you`ve narrowed it down even more.But,if there were two ordered that way it would be less rare than a color I could go and have mixed today and put on a 67-72.Catch my drift?If you just want to know what is the rarest color of all possible colors,then there are alot of one-off colors and they would all be equally rare.So,the rarest color would be the one you never saw.

Here`s that Grey:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...5/IMG_0463.jpg

You might have seen another Light Grey truck,but without checking the SPID you won`t know if it`s a factory Light Grey or a repaint.

Here`s a Grapefruit Blazer I have:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...s55/019_19.jpg

This Green is a special paint used on a fleet of rental trucks.There were many painted this color,but it`s a rare color to see on anything but one of these.And,there are less and less surviving.A new repaint color could be mixed and shot today:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...55/2ace_12.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...55/6a89_12.jpg

Here`s that Palamino Tan:

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMG_1071.jpg
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMG_1072.jpg

I`ve only seen this truck in this color:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...s55/a064_4.jpg

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Here's a pic of mine grapefruit yellow (code 525) and white 71.
I wouldn't say it's very rare though.