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OK, here are some pics of the Camper Special emblem. The pictures don't really do it justice. Took a week using a metal polish called Nuvite and a Dremel. Very fiddly stuff. I did discover a way to polish in the smaller parts of the emblem. I basically took Q-tips , cut them in half, then used the halves chucked in the Dremel. As they got black and grubby, I swapped out for a new piece and keot on going. You have to be careful when doing this - the chrome plating is very thin, and if you get too aggressive, you can burn straight through to the copper plate underneath.
That'd be funny if you got a big silver chain and wore that as like some kind of necklace like those guys do.
Update on GMC Orange and the orange on Camper Special emblems. I'm making a couple of posts on the site using this photo and others. I had a little bit of time today so I took an NOS GMC fender badge to O'Reilly's to try and find a match for the orange. The best match I could find out of the DuPont books was a color called Hugger Orange used on GM vehicles in the mid to late 1990's. It was from the 1996 or 1998 Dupont color catalog that I found the color chip. I'll have more details later. For those restoring 73-74 GMC fender badges, here again is an old fender badge (as posted in this same thread) that's been weathered for about 14 years (It was a NOS badge when I put it on).