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I lived in the San Fernando Valley part of Los Angeles City for many years. There was a biker guy there who had a pink Harley. If people came into the bar he hung out at, laughing about that pink Harley, they got a beat down.
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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
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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 .
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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 .
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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.
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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
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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?
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I need a k20 in this color with cab lights
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That would look cool.
What's up with Clearance Lights in the leading edge of the hood, not the cab roof -- that I see on new trucks? I would be afraid of a low hanging structure taking off the upper cab.
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When I see "SPECIAL PAINT" on spids, every conceivable color is a legitimate.
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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.
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With a plaid yellow seat But seriously, the pink is really cool, I never knew they existed until today.
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I started this post in 2017 and said ithere were never any Chevys painted pink. Well never say never and seeing this thread pop up today I realized i had info that someone had found one a year or two ago with the spid to back it up. Apparently everyone in the area where the truck was, picture of it in the field, and it had been sitting for years and someone just went and made a deal on it and didnt know it was an original pink/white as someone over the years went to a lot of trouble to cover the pink color. SP0041 Specal Paint Code is the pink/white 2 tone RPO.
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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.
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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.
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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
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The fuel tank must have been empty.
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