special paint cars

[Big Block Bill]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

One more and then I'll quit:

I did not remember this but in the '73-77 timeframe you could not order a LD squarebody pickup in "black". It was not available as a regular production option.

You could, however, order it as a COPO and tap into Specialty Equipment Option 9V1 and access the black available for fleet and Medium Duty trucks.

We had a '75 2wd Short box in black, but I did not remember dad saying he had to do anything special to get it.

It became a regular option in '78.

K

I did the same thing in 1976 with a Loaded F-250 4X4 I ordered. I went though all the hoops to get it in silver and paid I think $250.00 extra for the factory to do it and the next year in 1977 it was a standard, available, color. Every 1977 on the road seemed to be silver, my dumb luck. I got razzed by all my buddies at the time that I paid $250.00 extra for a truck in "Primer with Clear" as they called it. I even tried to get the 2008 ZO-6 Corvette I ordered new in the fall of 2007 in Hugger Orange, but they wouldn't do it at any cost, progress? Bill