Stripe color, accent, Medium Gold Dust

Years 1987–90, 1998 Models 2 Factory citations 5

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Also described as Stripe color, Gold with Black Border

Also documented for Chevrolet

Documented applications

Safari — First generation (1985–1994)

1987–1990 Factory-verified

requires D85; the merged second-generation doc reads 53A as an accent stripe color, Medium Gold Dust; shared M-body code; cited from the joint Astro/Safari pages of the Astro kits.

GM Heritage factory kit — 1987 Chevrolet Astro Van, p.29.
GM Heritage factory kit — 1988 Chevrolet Astro Van, p.9.
GM Heritage factory kit — 1989 Chevrolet Astro Van, p.14.
GM Heritage factory kit — 1990 Chevrolet Astro Van, p.8.

Safari — Second generation (1995–2005)

1998 Factory-verified

GM factory document — 1998 gmc safari 2wd rpo code list, p.1.

This page aggregates every documented appearance of 53A in the GMC reference. Confidence and citations are shown per application — the same code can be better documented in one year than another.