Originally Posted by special-K (Post 7376819)

I wonder if that Reading service body was originally installed or added later on, such as at time of repaint

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 7376875)

Ah hah, a CE24, eh? The trim says pickup as well. In fact, the upper trim was optioned over the Custom Deluxe package. But there were probably more brand new pickups that had beds pulled to install service bodies than C/20 cab & chassis ordered. Until more recent years, a cab & chassis cost was more than a pickup. So, most cab & chassis were 133" and 157" C/30s. I doubt a cost conscious company would have ordered the appearance options, though. My guess is the bed was added at some point later on and truck was repainted and color was matched. That would be when they added better mirrors

Originally Posted by bruceman1968 (Post 7376924)

Right, I was just saying that it left Fremont as a Fleetside. CE20934
Edit: just looked up the list prices,
CE20934(Fleetside) = list $3012.00
CE20903(Cab&Chassis) = list $2860.00

Originally Posted by 12secondnova (Post 7377069)

The box is actually a "knapheide". Eventually it will get a regular box again but for now we're gonna just try and get it running, we need to find the keys or get some made though. I dont have pictures of it but there is actually a pretty big run on the side of the hood that I doubt the factory could have done. So it probably is a repaint

Originally Posted by burb71 (Post 7377291)

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 7380320)

That special paint could be any color under the sun. I mean, not necessarily a GM color at all, but a color a business uses no matter what brand vehicle they buy. Sears used to put a similar color on their trucks. Your best bet is go to a paint supply house and have them scan it.

So this was bought from the original owner? The truck body place would have painted and installed the bed. I just wonder, if this is original paint job, when the door mirrors were added and the holes for the original mirrors filled.

You won't know if that's an HO52 or HO72 till you go to get brake parts. I don't know why anyone would do that swap (unless original rear blew) because they are the same rear

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 7377967)

I know by '92 it was 10 trucks. I got GMC to paint my truck a fleet color and that's what constituted a fleet order at that tiime. I was disappointed to hear that and asked, "But what if a fleet owner has one truck get totalled, can't they replace that one truck in their company color?". That got my salesman to call GMC to see what we could do. They said they would do my order as long as I was willing to wait till they had at least 5 trucks ordered in that color. I agreed and waited

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 7380320)

That special paint could be any color under the sun. I mean, not necessarily a GM color at all, but a color a business uses no matter what brand vehicle they buy. Sears used to put a similar color on their trucks.

Originally Posted by Eric White

The procedure for getting a special-paint car ordered went like this:

• The customer (or dealership) determines what color is desired.

• An "All Series Special Equipment" order form is filled out.

The information required for a special-paint-request on this form is:
• Lower Color Paint No.
• Upper Color Paint No.
• Make of Car & Year Paint Used.
I am guessing that obtaining the correct paint no. would be left up to the ordering salesman/dealership paint department.

In the '60s and early '70s, before colored plastic/fiberglass trim parts became common, any color paint could be ordered, as long as the dealer could supply the paint formula no. on the S.O. form. After the mid-'70s when the crash-bumper fillers became common place, special order colors were phased out except for large fleet orders.

Several codes were used on the Fisher Body trim tag to indicate a special-order paint. Codes varied between the years and between Fisher Body plants. Some of the codes used were:
1= Standard GM paint, not a Pontiac color
2= Special Pontiac color. Sometimes offered a half-year "springtime" color.
3= Cadillac FireFrost color. This paint was not normally allowed on a Pontiac build because of the special processes required to apply this type of paint.
4= Body in primer
SPEC or ** would indicate a paint color from a source outside GM (Ford, Chryco, AMC, John Deere, International Harvester, etc.) Colors could also be ordered to match school or business colors. As long as a formula no. could be identified by the dealership just about any color hue could be specified.

• The order was then routed through the Pontiac Zone office, which then routed it on to the Central Office.

• Central Office then entered a request to the paint supplier, usually PPG/Ditzler, for the appropriate paint.

• The paint supplier shipped a quantity of paint to the appropriate assembly plant.

• The special-order build was scheduled and coordinated between the Fisher plant and GMAD or Pontiac assembly.

• Build was delivered to dealership with a quart of touch up paint in trunk.

Originally Posted by burb71 (Post 7377291)

Originally Posted by sierragrande71 (Post 7382336)

That guy u bought that truck from use to have a '63-'64 nova wagon parked next to it years ago, wonder what happened to it?

Originally Posted by sneakyfast (Post 7488372)

Dang man please don't change out that bed. Can you imagine....lower that bad boy with 20's and change it out to big block and you would have the best hot rod in this country. Sweet ride!