1974 Alyeska yellow trucks

[SilverMiner]

Any Alaskans here that can tell me if there are any 70's Alyeska yellow trucks still running on the road? Pics would be great too!

Being in high school in NW Montana in the late 70's/early 80's, there were more than a few running around and I swear every one of them came with a different BS story, usually involving unprovable claims about the heater or even more improbable BS about how the truck happened to arrive in Montana. Usually told by a log truck driver who may have never set foot outside the state of Montana.

I have just been re-reading a book by Dermot Cole titled "Amazing Pipeline Stories" in which he devotes an entire chapter to the famous Alyeska yellow chevy trucks that clogged the streets of Fairbanks in the summer of 1974. According to Cole, Alyeska placed a $3M dollar order for 450 3/4 ton pickups, 97 Suburbans, 30 Blazers, and six ambulances with Tip Top Chevrolet in Fairbanks (pg. 186), all 4x4 and bright yellow. Apparently by 1975 there were more than 1,700 Alyeska Chevy trucks running around Alaska, but the yellow paint scheme was abandoned for "more subdued colors" when the yellow trucks became too notorious and recognizable. Apparently Fairbanks youths considered a stolen yellow Alyeska gas cap to be a special prize.