help me choose a color for my 1964 fst :)

[destin]

If you do it right and take care of the rust and paint it with the color in the top left of this picture you will add about 10k to the value to your cruiser.

Just orderd a sample paint of the t333 to test spray.

After the test spray, I am taking every part of, and media blasting it, removing all rust.
Then spraying it tropical coral red with acrylic enamel

Super excited.
Going to have to comb the threads about tub removal tips, but the rest looks pretty straight foreword.

 

[ocdbeetle]

Or you'll just have a nice truck you can enjoy......

 

[destin]

Or you'll just have a nice truck you can enjoy......

indeed

 

[destin]

It looks like the toughest part is finding a paint supplier that can find the tropical Coral Red T333

Getting a lot of "that color does not exist / Not a valid color code" replies.
The paint shop supplier is doing some additional research I guess to try to track it down.

Who thought it would be so tough to get a color mixed with the manufacturers color code?

man.

 

[fireflyr]

Our paint shop couldn't find Dune Beige 416 with PPG but did with Nason's brand. Good luck.

 

[fireflyr]

I ordered some paint from these guys and recieved it in about 5 days:

Color Chip Selection

They do have Tropical Coral T-333.

Pat

 

[destin]

oh nice!

Thanks man!

 

[Bill McC]

I went with really close to factory color of Coronado Beige (T451) for my 1963 FST. It is a close match to the existing original paint. Go original. It will add character. What color top are you going with?

 

[destin]

I went with really close to factory color of Coronado Beige (T451) for my 1963 FST. It is a close match to the existing original paint. Go original. It will add character. What color top are you going with?

Thanks man.

Going with an Eshan OD green canvas top
It is on the way to the states as we speak.

 

[Living in the Past]

I vote for the original color. Looks like you can get the color too. I just wish I knew a way to track down this color for my project.

 

[Living in the Past]

Here's a link to the build up tread on the red 73 in post 28 to bad he deleted all the pictures. It is one new cruiser. Sold on Ebay for far less than it should have.


https://forum.ih8mud.com/40-55-series-tech/52396-1973-restoration.html

 

[wesintl]

You could go the VW hoodride route and have someone do you a patina paint job.....Comes with its own tetanus shot.....LOL

I think the clear patina is bitchin

 

[destin]

I just wish I knew a way to track down this color for my project.

nice!
Is that the mystery green?
Looks great!

I vote for the original color. Looks like you can get the color too.

Yeap, going to paint it the original tropical coral red

I need to start a new thread about de-rusting bolts for reassembly
Also about how to paint them, for example before assembly or after.
At least for the bolts that are the same color as the body parts.

Do you know off hand if the gas tank is supposed to be the same color as the body? I have seen so many variations... some pewter, some the same as the body color. It seems the trend for darker deeper colors to have pewter colored accessory bits?

 

[destin]

will electrolysis rust removal work with one of these?

Might be a smart solution to nuke the rust on the body bolts etc...

DieHard Portable Power 950 Jump-starter/DC and USB Power Source

 

[tlc_4play]

This is my all time favorite color

But this is the colour of my 1979 BFJ40 - Kermit - Rustic Green 621
I like the greens, but am seriously considering painting my next rebuild in one of the Matt colors - maybe the dark silver like the ICON

 

[Living in the Past]

nice!
Is that the mystery green?
Looks great!

Do you know off hand if the gas tank is supposed to be the same color as the body? I have seen so many variations... some pewter, some the same as the body color. It seems the trend for darker deeper colors to have pewter colored accessory bits?

Yep that the color green. That lit is from 61. Even less seems to be know about the colors for the first three years of the FJ40 than the earlier FJ25

Don't know for a 64 but my 65 FJ45 has the gas tank painted spring green. The truck has been painted a few times but the original color was spring green.

 

[destin]

Yep that the color green. That lit is from 61. Even less seems to be know about the colors for the first three years of the FJ40 than the earlier FJ25

Don't know for a 64 but my 65 FJ45 has the gas tank painted spring green. The truck has been painted a few times but the original color was spring green.

It is a nice green

Do you happen to remember the link that had all the factory literature delineated by year?

I had it book marked but i cannot seem to find it

 

[Living in the Past]

It is a nice green

Do you happen to remember the link that had all the factory literature delineated by year?

I had it book marked but i cannot seem to find it

The link a know about was on this tread in the 25 forum. It's the link in the first post. But it seems to dead.


https://forum.ih8mud.com/fj25-owners-group/42244-manuals-factory-lit-etc.html

 

[destin]

The link a know about was on this tread in the 25 forum. It's the link in the first post. But it seems to dead.


https://forum.ih8mud.com/fj25-owners-group/42244-manuals-factory-lit-etc.html

Thanks man,

It is a bummer about the link being down.
That was a great visual resource.

I wonder what happened.

 

[destin]

I ordered some paint from these guys and recieved it in about 5 days:

Color Chip Selection

They do have Tropical Coral T-333.

Pat

Thanks Pat,

Ordered a quart to test spray from them today.
Polite and professional, they found the tropical coral red t333 color in 20 seconds

Thanks for the tip man!

Destin