One of the other items I question with the Danbury Mint models is the
engine color.
I have not been able to verify this as factual, but I believe that the
color for 283 motors in 58 and 59 was gray and not the standard Chevy
orange. Danbury has there 58 motor painted orange.
1959 Chevrolet Apache ____ 3100
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From: Kevin Lake[SMTP:lakek@oit.edu]
Reply To: Kevin Lake
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 11:52 AM
To: Advdesign1@aol.com; oletrucks@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] How many colors were there - an update!
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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