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| | | | Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 170 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 170 | I was scraping crud from under my 46 1/2 ton front end. Under the thick crud was shiny black paint. Under that appears to be very bright orange paint. This was exposed with just a putty knife, no sanding. The orange is on the frame, shocks and inner fenders. I'm assuming the factory never used orange primer - so it looks like sometime in the truck's history it was painted orange! The underside was always black wasn't it? Thanks. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 457 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 457 | I thought the underside was black, but it might have been a special fleet order, or??? Also, Omaha Orange was an available factory color. Someone else may have an idea.....
1940 Chevy 1/2 ton pickup "KC"
A day without sunshine is like, well, ..... dark!
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 101 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 101 | Maybe someone painted it with "red lead". It's a rust inhibitor that used to be used a lot on ships hulls. It was usually a dark orange color.
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| | | | | Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 170 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 170 | thanks for the replies. I suspect I'll never know unless I remove some paint from the outer body & it is in too good of condition to do that now.....some day! Thanks. | | |
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