[Supercar_Kid]

My Dad's untouched, one owner '77 ElCamino has the red mark on the ignition switch...and there's nothing high performance about it.

I think alot more of these switches may have had the red and it simply wore out or chipped out much more early on than you might expect. Paint does not stick well to chrome, and that little sliver of red bakes in the sun on the steering column, one day it gets bumped with a finger and now your red hash mark is a tiny red flake on your floormat. Kinda like the chrome plating around horn buttons and radio knobs...it doesn't take much abuse or use for that stuff to be worn off completely. Just my opinion...