Original primer color?

[dmaddox]

In 1963, what was the color of the primer?

Any of you sanded down or worked with one to know what the color of the primer was?

Thanks!

Dallas

 

[miker]

My 1964 FJ45 LWB has a reddish brown sealer over the bare metal and then a medium gray primer. The top coat is freeborn red.

 

[abecker]

My 1964 FJ45 LWB has a reddish brown sealer over the bare metal and then a medium gray primer. The top coat is freeborn red.

yup...my 64 SWB too.

 

[dmaddox]

ok, just verifying.

I am really investigating the original color of my 45. I think it may be red. It's too good of a spray to be shot at the "county" sheriff's office. That red is OLD, and it's everywhere Toyota would have sprayed.

I sanded down an area underneath the dash... Under the red is a cream color and under that appears to be a sealer of some sort - reddish brown also.

Did they ever use a white-ish cream primer?

Dallas

 

[cruiser_guy]

The NOS parts I've found for the FJ25 are in red oxide primer.

 

[miker]

ok, just verifying.

I sanded down an area underneath the dash... Under the red is a cream color and under that appears to be a sealer of some sort - reddish brown also.

I'm not sure this helps to answer your question, but on mine, it does not appear to thave any of the gray primer under the dash and interior. There is a very light coat of the reddish brown sealer and then the topcoat (freeborn red). I've only seen the gray primer (perhaps a surfacer) on the exterior panels.

The only other Land Cruiser I have that I can tell you for sure about original paint is a 79 fj40 and that used a green/grey sealer then a white (031) topcoat.

 

[uted]

I took most of the paint off my 1968 40 with a scraper. Under the green paint was a red sealer over the steel and then what looked like a red primer filler over that.
But then a 78 model i was doing some work on had a greenie colored sealer then grey primer under the dune beigh.