The Standout Paint Color of 1969... [PIC]

The winner by a landslide was Chevrolet Camaro's Hugger Orange. As the decade was ending, the Big Three began to offer more flamboyant color for their muscle cars. Chevrolet offered this retina searing, non-metallic orange with the "Hugger" adjective relating to the '67 and'68 Camaros being marketed as "Huggers" for how they gripped the road. It was such a success that Chevy offered it for their Novas ,Chevelles and even Corvettes. It was offered under different names. On Corvettes, it was Monaco Orange and Pontiac called it Carousel Red and the following year "Orbit Orange" for their GTOs.  For 1969 Indy 500, the pace car was a Hugger Orange striped Dover White Camaro. I love how it looks on this Revell Creative Masters Z28. The tooling is 31 years old at a time when it outshone the Mints with more content including full wiring and photoetched scripts and badging. Shunned by a lot of Mint collectors for its 1/20 scale, I just devoted an entire shelf to all their masterful creations.... problem solved.

Ford's answer: the non-metallic Grabber Blue (suspiciously similar to French Racing Blue). Note: instead of hugging the road, this Boss 429 GRABS the road.