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My truck is as bone stock as they come. But, in getting ready for paint (or my version of that), I encountered an odd thing.

While sanding down some rust spots, I found off-white (Bombay Ivory?) paint under the owner-applied light blue and above the original factory color (767 - Royal - blue). Now, it's at least possible that this white layer was applied after the truck left the factory, but it really looks and sands like it's original to the truck. There was no white under the roof paint, just the two blues.

Here's the trim code plate:

Plate

As I get ready to put paint on this truck, I'd like to think about returning the original scheme to it because I am adding as close a match as I could get to the original blue. So, though I was originally considering a white roof with white bumpers and grille, I am now considering the "male-pattern-baldness" version with the band of white just running around the upper cab between the gutter and the division line and across the doors to the A pillar.

I seem to remember Bill mentioning that a straight 767 (or any paint code number) might mean two-tone, with an "A" designator for solid color trucks. Do you all think my bone-stock truck might have had a band of white on it from the factory?

Does not really matter either way, but it has me curious. And, it may make a difference how I paint it.

Thanks,

Jim

yes, 767 is Royal Blue, but the 57 sheet I have shows #780 for a 2 tone with Royal Blue {L}ower and Alpine Blue [lighter] for the [U]pper - I believe the "A" suffix was for certain colors that were never used in combinations, and the other suffix letters had to do with cab body style, so more about particular pattern [B=panel, J&K=fleetsides] .... one indicator is that 2 tones had wheels painted the lower color, single color trucks had black wheels .... and consider that a truck already painted one way may have been "touched up" to meet a special order

Bill

Got it Bill, thanks.

The wheels for this truck are LONG gone, so no help there. Either way, I'm putting it back in a scheme that my little guy likes. Minus the red flames he wants on everything...

Thanks for the help.

Jim