1970 Judge Color breakdown

[Bandit]

Please find it. I would love to see it.

[Bandit]

For 1978 there is a Yellow-Orange color code "34". Looks alot like Orbit Orange. I have seen that in person myself before. See pic attached.

[copo9566aa]

Autocolorlibrary show Orbit Orange for 70 and 71 Pontiac

1970

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[Bandit]

GTO DON, can you check this out?
From my GTO Resto Guide shows Orbit Orange for 1970 ONLY.
Paint code 06 (T)
Dupont 5210-L
Ditzler 2257
Rinshed-Mason 170B770
NO Orbit Orange for 1971 in the 12 GTO books I have here.

[JLP]

Just to throw this into the mix. The Rinshed-Mason Product chart for 1971 attached does not show 06 or 60 nor does it show 51 Golden Red Yellow nor 65 Carosel Red. On the PPG chart there are asterisks by each of these and at the bottom of the PPG chart it states these are "1970 spring colors"

Don't you just love this. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[Bandit]

I [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]ts kinda funny!

[JLP]

Goat72,

Went to both sites. In the first site the original color does not look Orbit Orange but more of Canyon Copper color. In the second site he states it is not a Judge but a clone. Leads me to believe he may have changed the color. Still a beautiful color. If you go to the first site and back up one page you will see the car as he was working on it. Check out the second pic. Kind of hard to tell but not the same color as when the trunk was installed and the trunk is open in anothe pic. Pardon the pun, but you be the judge!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif[/img]

[442w30]

I agree that Orbit Orange was not available in 1971. Often, with colors specified as mid-year Spring colors, they appeared in the next year's chart, as shown in the link.

[Bandit]

I will have to dig up my build sheet to see when my Judge was built. I think it was Feb 1970.

[GOAT72]

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I agree that Orbit Orange was not available in 1971. Often, with colors specified as mid-year Spring colors, they appeared in the next year's chart, as shown in the link.

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I believe Steve Stratham or Tom DeMauro mentioned in their book(s) that Orbit-O was only available in 1970.

Someone tried to tell me that Chevy "Hugger Orange" was the same color as O-O, and that GM was "too lazy" to mix other colors for different divisions. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img] I now know that Hugger -O was way more of a "pumpkin" orange.
I also read that true orbit Orange is supposed to be dead-on the color of orange juice.
The reason being is that in summer '69, when the 1970 colors were decided, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon -- "TANG" was very popular as the "astronaut's drink", so Pontiac jumped on the popularity of NASA and developed "Orbit Orange".
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My $0.02,
GOAT72