[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