what color shoud I paint my troopy?

[Sloop Imports]

79' HJ-45 Troopy Frame-off Restoration

The great debate between my wife and I is what color should I repaint my 79 hj-45 troopy. The top with stay white, but the body is currently painted black and needs a new paint job. She states that is needs to be a factory color from 1979. What do you guys think? Not a big fan of white, yellow, black, red. If you were looking at buying a troopy restored what cruiser color would you want it to be?

Thanks,
Peter

 

[dmaddox]

Green Poly - or as it was earlier called "rustic green" I love that color - LOVE it. Would go awesome on a troopy.

Color Chip Selection It is T621 Rustic Green, not pictured here (these are car colors).

 

[Leaping Deer]

Olive. I think the color is 654 or something like that.

 

[Sloop Imports]

Any troopy pictures with these colors?

Thanks,
Peter

 

[a.greenspan]

Olive. I think the color is 654 or something like that.

code is: 653 (olive)

Cheers
Peter

 

[40Flipper]

Those darker blue ones are nice

 

[tucker74]

I always like the Nordic Blue (857) - should be correct on a late model

Tucker

 

[Awl_TEQ]

What do you like - newer colors


Or original colors?

 

[lowenbrau]

Your wife sounds very wise.

I like "Dune Beige" 416 maybe?

 

[40Flipper]

Nordic is nice. Brown would make it look like a s***wagon.

 

[a.greenspan]

Your wife sounds very wise.

I like "Dune Beige" 416 maybe?

indeed,
take a factory color (us english) (colour (british english) )





that color (colour) is a NO NO



Cheers
Peter

 

[a.greenspan]

Nordic is nice. Brown would make it look like a ****wagon.

my olive green (old paint 29 years) 653 ***wagon
(like the color (colour)





buckroseau`s olive green (new paint) 653 ***wagon
(he likes the color (colour) too

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Cheers
Peter

 

[daniel.watters]

john deer green looks great. mustard, dune beige, and white are nice too. mine is white.

 

[2manycruisers]

Hi Peter, I hope you are enjoying the troopy. I've become partial to mustard yellow on the troopies, though I've never liked it on 40s. But that olive troopy above is awesome.
cheers,

 

[abecker]

my .02

although my fav LC colors are nebula, spring green, olive, mustard and dune beige this pic is my favorite troopy. there are too many sky(?) blue 40s but not many troopies.

Too many dune and mustard ones, spring green wouldn't look right, there can only be one orange one... i do like the olive ones posted though

...how about one of the grey colors, haven't seen any of those yet?

what are you doing for wheels - that might influence your decision.

bottom line - once its done it should be covered in MUD

 

[alkarich]

I've always liked the dune beige or mustard yellow. Just classic cruiser colors.

 

[Sloop Imports]

Purchased Olive Green 653, base and clear. I'm going to speedliner the inside of the cab, floors and sides up to the split between the body and the top.
Wheels are toyota disk brake oem grey wheels/33X10.50X15s with Toyota oem hubcaps (four front hub caps= bc of the rear full floater)

My question is I dont have access to a lift and will probably end up doing a frame off restoration. Do I need to make a beer day and have 6-10 people take the body off. Anyone have thoughts as to a troopy body wieght and what the best removal method is?

Thanks for the color advise. I would have painted it metalic silver with the white top if I knew I would keep the troopy forever, but I know myself well enough that after this is restored I will want to sell it and build another one. A bad habit, I know.

Peter

 

[2manycruisers]

Can't wait to see pics of it painted and with new shoes! I assume you will have the tub stripped bare when removing? No top, doors, interior, etc? A 40 tub is a handful for 3 people and you have an extra 3 feet of steel; I'd say 6 strong backs would be pretty good. The speedliner will add a bunch more weight when putting it back on, too.

 

[Luke111]

Purchased Olive Green 653, base and clear. I'm going to speedliner the inside of the cab, floors and sides up to the split between the body and the top.
Wheels are toyota disk brake oem grey wheels/33X10.50X15s with Toyota oem hubcaps (four front hub caps= bc of the rear full floater)

My question is I dont have access to a lift and will probably end up doing a frame off restoration. Do I need to make a beer day and have 6-10 people take the body off. Anyone have thoughts as to a troopy body wieght and what the best removal method is?

Thanks for the color advise. I would have painted it metalic silver with the white top if I knew I would keep the troopy forever, but I know myself well enough that after this is restored I will want to sell it and build another one. A bad habit, I know.

Peter

I don't recommend Speedlining the inside of you truck, it's a great product but it has a toxic smell that was still in my truck two years later. Linex is IMO a better product exspecially in a enclosed space like your Troopy.

Lou

 

[Sloop Imports]

Slowly but surely, the suspension is finished. Traded some parts for 5 disk brake steel wheels and sotck oem hub caps. Hopefully will start disassembling the body this week. The only problem is I'm going to start running out of shop space when it is in parts. One of my employees is a former paint and body guy from back east, so he will direct the project and I'm going to be the grunt. Its 0 degees out so its going to be a slow day.

Peter