Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

We know you could put any interior with ant paint color, yet most trucks we see have combinations that you'd expect. Kind of like people dressing. There are plaid pants and plaid shirts, but how often do you see someone wearing both? Other than on skid row that is :lol:

My friend has this '69 with Medium Gold Poly paint and a Bright Red interior. Maybe the original owner was a 49ers fan

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

oh my - I'd say that's a rare combo

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Kind of odd ?

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

69 Light Blue with Maroon interior

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

That's pretty ate up. I remember when I went to work at a Chevy dealer out of high school, and the vehicles at the end of the year model had some oddball stuff like this. The new car sales manager told me that the remaining stock of supplies got shuffled through the system in order to get used up. I know from when I and my family worked at a GMAD (Van Nuys) that unused parts were destroyed at the end of the model year. You ever watch those fancy aluminum Firebird wheels get a sledgehammer taken to them, or the AM/FM/8-track players? Sick. You'd think that GM would have found a way to get them in the parts system, but that probably cost more than the parts were worth.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

When I worked at GM Oshawa,the end of year stuff that did not get used in the 70s went to scrap also,I remember one of the old guys told me he had to take a load of muncie transmissions to the scrap yard and take a sledge hammer and bust all the ears of the transmissions.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

My 70 C-10 built in 11-69 came with standard Blue interior with Red/orange exterior and interior paint. Basic truck, No AC, PS, PB, radio, Cig lighter, 3 on the tree, rubbermat, 307-2bbl. Only came across 1 with the same combo.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Great examples so far. You guys are crossing up dealer and factory. Some dealers may have been foolish enough to destroy stock, but obviously not all. I seriously doubt that Chevy would throw together oddballs at the end of the year to get rid of parts. 1- Car makers are required by law to carry replacement parts a minimum of ten years beyond model year. 2- At the end of model year it's about liquidating stock and putting out oddball stuff would be totally contrary to that. I guess if they all have end of the line serial numbers it could be true.

Imagine a Medium Gold Poly truck with Olive or Blue

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

a few years ago i bought a nice original 69 3/4 ton 2 wheel drive big block gmc from Jeff's bowties.It was medium gold with green interior..I think Jeff had acquired a longhorn in those same colors also.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

I usually think odd is colors that clash and shouldn’t be together

What about no contrast !
White on white in a truck doesn’t make much sense ?

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Replacement parts would have been in the parts division, and leftovers would be destroyed at the GMAD plants. It's pretty sickening to see those parts destroyed, but it's true. I don't think that a dealership would destroy parts. I managed to buy a set of paint break moldings for a painted top for my '64 Malibu SS in '71, when I worked for the dealer.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Here is one and was on Ebay for sale the last 6 months or so.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

I guess that's a "no combo". Remember the smartasses when we were kids saying "White is not a color"? Reminds me of when I was building car models. I'd paint every detail and so did my buddies. Some kids would build w/o a stitch of paint, just glue them together white on white on white on white. We used to give them a hard time :lol:.
My friend (older than me) was a body man at a GMC/Cadillac dealership and he was constantly dumpster diving prime parts for decades. It depends on the dealership I guess.
HAPPY EASTER!!

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

^ Lucky guy! He could get some pretty good money for those parts!

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Off topic but..
Did you see the blue interior yellow exterior squarebody all over Facebook
That was odd duck.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

That’s the one I was thinking about when I saw the title.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

I haven't. Post pictures

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Pics please

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Pics, supposedly a original deal. spid matched

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

I wonder if it was a AAA auto club vehicle.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

I don't recall any cross-pollenization between service and production parts. The service part quantities were usually built up and concluded during the model year run.

Production parts have three stock disposition choices when making a change for the coming model year:

a) Use
b) Rework
c) Scrap

"Use" means the part can be carried over as is.

"Rework" typically would be the drilling of a hole, or maybe a software update in a radio or module. The subject parts would be pulled, quarantined and reworked either at the assembly plant or by the supplier (depending on the complexity). Reworked parts would be updated by a new part number, or by the addition of a paint dot or adhesive sticker, as authorized by the Temporary Work Order. Parts that had been reworked three or four or five times could get a bit confused.

"Scrap" parts are parts that cannot be used in the new model year because the don't match the new marketing intent (like an obsolete emblem or appearance item) or do not meet a new regulatory requirement. Those parts are pulled, red tagged and quarantined until somebody can get over there to bust them up with a sledgehammer or drill holes in them.

K

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Maybe a NASCAR fan?

K

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

I ordered my truck with a red exterior and a "red" interior.

Turns out the "red" interior was more of a burgundy color. The ladies in my family hated it.

I got so much grief from them over the years that when I redid the truck I went with a black interior.

K



http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...8.jpg~original

http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...9.jpg~original

http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...0.jpg~original

http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

My 89 Suburban was Victory Red with a red interior. The interior was actually burgandy. Iwas shocked a bit but I got used to it.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

We had a '86 1ton white with the dark red interior

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Sounds like a nice combo

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Put a burgundy stripe above the body line looked good.
Great truck too went 317k before we sold it.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

I should mention: that's why I got the red interior in the pick up.

I had an 86 suburban that was red with the brown interior and the ladies hated that too. They thought it looked like a "rotten tomato ".

Keith

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

When I was picking my Burb up and saw the interior I thought it was a mistake. Once I realized it was as ordered I wished I had gone with the saddle. But I got used to it. Whoever at GM decided to call it red was color blind......:lol::lol::lol:

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Carmine red if I remember..

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Camerine redis what they call it......I say it's burgandy/maroon......did I mention the engineers were color blind?

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

I think you mean "Marketing/Design Studio" guys.

Engineers don't do "pretty".

K

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Didn't know they existed....they probably wear plaid with stripes together....lol

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

:o Hey now, no need to get personal! :lol:

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

Here is an odd color combo. Saw this on craigslist this morning. looks to be original and its for sale. $5800

1970 GMC 2500 Sierra Grande - https://spokane.craigslist.org/cto/d...890691943.html

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

I would have tactfully explain how "uncrowded" it was walking if they disliked the colors that much,,, but I'm kinda an a$$ when it comes to things like that!:devil:
Might have something to do with no ladies in my life,,,:lol:

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

I always thought this GMC was an interesting combination, light yellow/white top with green interior and a factory stake bed.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

I always figured GM did those Medium Olive/Grapefruit and Light Green/Light Yellow combos for the "more mature" owners. That is a throwback to the '50s combination. You know, the long bed trimmed out pickup with narrow whitewalls and the red edge of the rim showing around the wheelcover... either factory or off some Chevy car.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

ok I had to do a double take, I didnt expect to just be browsing around this site and see my old bobby allison nascar replica. i bought that car in 2000 and spent 7 years restoring it. the picture you posted was in hot rod magazine. i sold the car a couple years ago to coca-cola.

Re: Odd Ext/Int Color Combos
 

I always thought the same thing Eric. Then I got the 72, and the weird combo kinda grew on me. The plaid may have helped though. I think the white/parchment combo especially looks great in your Super, the woodgrain really sets it off without a lot of other contrast.