Joe , great view on this never ending story...
I try to say about the same in most of the f red discussions, the pink story is just a matter of light in different situations....
I own 9 f red guitars and not one looks the same in the same light....all guitars "change in colour" when I walk thru the house.
I've seen red, orange, pinkish, and all in between.....
I have a book with a colour photo from the stage scene of expresso bongo, all colours are very natural....the faces colours etc are very natural and every face has it's own colour not all the same.
So it's not a b/w pic coloured in...the guitar looks red and not pink......that colour comes very close to my original 58, more then all of my other f reds....
Cheers Rob