Real Ice Coral Pink

[Gary 70 Jimmy]

Cool truck for my wife.

[1971_CST_C10]

going to resurrect this thread, I recently purchased a 71 Super Custom with the deluxe option gmc from Cranbrook BC. I got it home and started a frame off on it and yanked out the factory buckets and console and the woodgrain dash and glovebox. she also has full gauges inc Vacuum gauge and tilt etc. I pulled the fenders off and was revealed that the truck wasnt solid white after all as the cowl sidewall was Pink and after cleaning off the layer of black paint on the firewall it was entirely pink as well. I sent off for the GM package from Oshawa and yep on the Official documentation she is a Coral Ice Pink truck with wooden floor and full gauge package and sold new in BC, to Motors Insurance Corporation of BC. We know them today as dropping the Motors from their name...... So this was a company truck that was loaded for ICBC....
unfortunetly GM doesnt have any number history but did say it was ONLY gmc Not chevy promotion. so any Chevys running around as Coral are fakes as it was a GMC Spring Promotional deal for 1971 only Not in 72 at all so they said. It would be great to know how many gmc's were made in Coral ice Pink and how many Longboxes and how many Shortboxes were offered or made...? anyone have those numbers ? I will post pictures once I get them off my phone.
Darren

[Grumpy old man]

I'd drive the wheels off of a coral ice pink truck ! Hell , I might even build one just to have something different . How about a tri power 427 , short bed 67 with a rock crusher and posi ?

Now that would be a sleeper .

Everybody has a red/black/green/white/aqua/blue truck .

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Grumpy old man

I'd drive the wheels off of a coral ice pink truck ! Hell , I might even build one just to have something different . How about a tri power 427 , short bed 67 with a rock crusher and posi ?

Now that would be a sleeper .

Everybody has a red/black/green/white/aqua/blue truck .

I may end up doing my '67 GMC in Palamino Tan, which is more of a flesh tone pink color like a Palamino's as.... I mean lips. You don't see trucks being done in that color and it was a common factory color from the '60s into '67. Maybe leopard skin upholstery

[Grumpy old man]

The truck I'm deep into now I've decided to paint 1968 Corvette Safari yellow . The truck yellow has too much of a green tint for me and the Safari yellow has enough yellow base to make the chrome pop .

Just about any color was available back in the "special order days" Special paint on the spid could be any available color

I really like the idea of a Ice coral pink 67 short bed with white trim and lower mouldings .

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by special-K

I may end up doing my '67 GMC in Palamino Tan, which is more of a flesh tone pink color like a Palamino's as.... I mean lips. You don't see trucks being done in that color and it was a common factory color from the '60s into '67. Maybe leopard skin upholstery

Wow! Cougar Mobile.

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I need a k20 in this color with cab lights

[Beach-Burban]

Originally Posted by special-K

I may end up doing my '67 GMC in Palamino Tan, which is more of a flesh tone pink color like a Palamino's as.... I mean lips. You don't see trucks being done in that color and it was a common factory color from the '60s into '67. Maybe leopard skin upholstery

Tim, Two weeks ago, I drove by this '71, only it was pre-fire and looked very nice from the street. I had seen it many times but never when someone was home until today. I sopke to a hispanic man for 15 minutes about it and thought we understood each other...but we didn't...he turned out to just be working on the owner's yard, who was not home, so I haven't a clue to what happened (electrical maybe?). Anyway...the SPID was lost in the fire...but would this be Palamino Tan? In any case...it was very sad to see, however, I'm sure it can be resurrected!

Woody

[Already Gone]

Originally Posted by 1971_CST_C10

going to resurrect this thread, I recently purchased a 71 Super Custom with the deluxe option gmc from Cranbrook BC. I got it home and started a frame off on it and yanked out the factory buckets and console and the woodgrain dash and glovebox. she also has full gauges inc Vacuum gauge and tilt etc. I pulled the fenders off and was revealed that the truck wasnt solid white after all as the cowl sidewall was Pink and after cleaning off the layer of black paint on the firewall it was entirely pink as well. I sent off for the GM package from Oshawa and yep on the Official documentation she is a Coral Ice Pink truck with wooden floor and full gauge package and sold new in BC, to Motors Insurance Corporation of BC. We know them today as dropping the Motors from their name...... So this was a company truck that was loaded for ICBC....
unfortunetly GM doesnt have any number history but did say it was ONLY gmc Not chevy promotion. so any Chevys running around as Coral are fakes as it was a GMC Spring Promotional deal for 1971 only Not in 72 at all so they said. It would be great to know how many gmc's were made in Coral ice Pink and how many Longboxes and how many Shortboxes were offered or made...? anyone have those numbers ? I will post pictures once I get them off my phone.
Darren

Yes you are correct saying the Coral Ice Pink was a 1971 GMC Spring Promotional thing. I find your use of the word " fakes" very harsh and somewhat insulting seeing I had a1972 C10 painted Coral Ice Pink and I never said it was anything but a repainted truck in the 13 years I owned it. Have you ran across anyone saying they have an original 71/72 Chevrolet Pickup painted Coral Ice Pink? Another thing is I have found over the years there are no absolutes with these trucks as board members are always finding anomalys with paint, packages and options from plant to plant and seeing this was a Canadian only promotion and the pink trucks were built in Oshawa where Chevys were built as well it is feasable that someone with the right connections , think COPO 427 Camaros , could have had a 1971 Chevrolet painted Coral Ice Pink as well. I have have never heard of or seen and original pink Chevy but never say never.

[1971_CST_C10]

Originally Posted by Already Gone

Yes you are correct saying the Coral Ice Pink was a 1971 GMC Spring Promotional thing. I find your use of the word " fakes" very harsh and somewhat insulting seeing I had a1972 C10 painted Coral Ice Pink and I never said it was anything but a repainted truck in the 13 years I owned it. Have you ran across anyone saying they have an original 71/72 Chevrolet Pickup painted Coral Ice Pink? Another thing is I have found over the years there are no absolutes with these trucks as board members are always finding anomalys with paint, packages and options from plant to plant and seeing this was a Canadian only promotion and the pink trucks were built in Oshawa where Chevys were built as well it is feasable that someone with the right connections , think COPO 427 Camaros , could have had a 1971 Chevrolet painted Coral Ice Pink as well. I have have never heard of or seen and original pink Chevy but never say never.

I can not stop you from perceiving the word Fake as being harsh that's your thought and sorry you took it that way. I also never stated in any of my comments in with regards of your truck specifically can you show me where ? I would say your truck is a tribute or a repaint if I had known about it or spoke of it. Anyhow, there is a 72 in Edmonton that the fella swears its original and was part of the spring promotional deal as well. I have also had a 1970 chevelle ss that was a Fake as I cloned it over but fake it was. My 20 years at General Motors I have seen a lot of weird stuff but there is always speculation as thats how rumours start like the LS6 1970 Monte carlo SS but I would say never as 48 years later they would have shown up by now !

[Leonard60]

Gezzer#99 and already gone have mentioned pink trucks out here in my area. I’ve done some asking around and have been told that the lost Bill Riddle truck from rocky mtn house may be located in a junk yard down in the cow lake area. I’m going to check that story out first chance I get. The guy at Rocky D told me he was sure it was a 1971.

[rhoway]

I have an original Coral Ice Pink that I an in the possess of restoring, my truck is a 1971 GMC Vin CE134-1121785 Paint option 4001ZB and yes it is an factory Pink truck

[dagnabbitt]

I just saw one of these, it was a 2500... which seems a little more unusual, even, than the others in this thread which seem to be all half tons. It suggests that this was truly a special order color and not something that was just forced on the dealerships. I'd love to see a SWB.

I'm kind of interested in these trucks, I gotta be different. Did we ever establish why they were available? Seems like we agree GMC, 1971 only: do we have a source for that? Wondering if any GM promo material exists.

And maybe its just a coincidence, but why is nearly every existing example not just in Canada, but specifically west of Manitoba?

[Chris27]

A bit late to the party, but this pink 71 belongs to my wife's uncle. He's owned it at least 10 years. 502 BBC under the hood. Lives near Edmonton Alberta.

[Sheepdip]

Originally Posted by Chris27

A bit late to the party, but this pink 71 belongs to my wife's uncle. He's owned it at least 10 years. 502 BBC under the hood. Lives near Edmonton Alberta.

Nice looking rig...I'd drive/own it.

[jocko]

now that's a very cool find Greg, thanks for posting. I'm trying to picture what the reason for the white stripe between the pinks would have been there for in pic #2 (i.e. behind the weatherstrip kinda). Looks original but seems very odd and deliberate, but then again, I may just be seeing things. Are you saying that RPO code specifically means white/coral ice combo or was it a generic code that had the details called out on the purchase order or something like that? For some reason I thought the special paint codes didn't necessarily represent a specific color, rather just the fact that the actual painted color was a non-optional color for the vehicle. But the special paint stuff is a bit of a mystery to me, wish I understood the coding better.

For what it's worth, even though the overpaint blue two tone on this truck wasn't a combo that was available until into the square years - I always wished it was available in 67-72, it's by far my favorite squarebody paint combo.

[dagnabbitt]

Again: both trucks posted today are not only in Canada, but west of Manitoba.

Just sayin. Must be a reason. These are Oshawa trucks so the build sheets can be searched through GM Heritage, it would tell a lot including what dealership they were sold from. Would be very interesting.

[Already Gone]

Originally Posted by dagnabbitt

Again: both trucks posted today are not only in Canada, but west of Manitoba.

Just sayin. Must be a reason. These are Oshawa trucks so the build sheets can be searched through GM Heritage, it would tell a lot including what dealership they were sold from. Would be very interesting.

Yes Heritage info would be great. I don't think they end the info unless u send proof of ownership of the vehicle and kast time I head I think it was 125.00 to get the info and I'm not that curious to pay that kind of money.

[toms68cst]

My wife is from NW North Dakota. As a kid she noticed when traveling to Estevan SK that many of the houses were painted wild pastel colors. (Colours Eh?) It must have been a fairly popular color palate in parts of Canada back in the day.

I thought I spied a pink 68 Longhorn one time many years ago. I wish I checked it out more.

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When I first joined the group I spent a lot of time with trying to find one pink or the wild purple color but never saw one for sale there were two other special colors also but not sure the colors

['68OrangeSunshine]

The fuel tank must have been empty.

[Gary 70 Jimmy]

Did any of them 4x4.

[Grumpy old man]

Too much pink ? I'd drive the wheels off this one !

[72c20customcamper]

Interesting but this is a strange way of painting . Never seen the factory paint all the way into the jamb like that before .