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Re: [oletrucks] How many colors were there - an update!

To: <Advdesign1@aol.com>, <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] How many colors were there - an update!
From: "Kevin Lake" <lakek@oit.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:52:09 -0700
You would think that if they had spent all that money to be factory
"correct", they wouldn't worry about the fact that "chrome sells".  For me,
I would be less likely to buy it now because it isn't factory "correct".

Kevin Lake
56 GMC Suburban/napco
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> From: Advdesign1@aol.com
> To: pfoxtrot@gate.net; oletrucks@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] How many colors were there - an update!
> Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999 3:26 AM
> 
> 
> << I'm going
>  to try and contact the Danbury Mint research department to see what they
>  used as a basis for their color selection, but this does agree with what
I
>  believe I found in my stripping routine of the weekend.  >>
> 
> I did some consulting for Danbury's AD models.  They find someone who
says he 
> has a 100 point truck and take pictures and notes.  They farm the work
out to 
> a research / prototype company.  when they did a 53 AD truck, I told them
the 
> chrome was not available during the Korean war, and documented ti with 
> factory lit.  their reply was "chrome sells" so it was unauthentically on
the 
> final version.  I was  mad as hell.
> 
> Go by what you found at the bottom layer of paint as factory authentic.
> Bob ADler
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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