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Subject: [oletrucks] How many colors were there?
From: "Paul W. Franchina" <pfoxtrot@gate.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:24:10 -0400
OK, I'm confused again. Spent the weekend enjoying Toluene fumes in the
+90F heat of my cab stripping the dashboard and cab. As I got thru the
millions of coats of old paint (slight exaggeration) I counted five
different colors that seemed to used inside the truck. There was a dark
gray used on the steering column and turn signal body. There was a silver
gray used up under the dash and the inside firewall area (initially hidden
by the old firewall padding). Then the dash itself seemed almost a black
(maybe a very dark gray) on top and a cream sort of white on the face of
it. The floor under the seat seemed to be the same gray as the steering
column, while the doors seemed to be body color around the window and the
cream sort of color matching the dash face on the remainder. 

My druthers at this point is to use the steering column gray to replace the
silver gray. That's either hidden under the firewall cover or up under the
dash unseen anyway. I always thought the dash was just body color, but I
took care stripping down through the layers and doubt I'd have missed body
color somewhere on the dash had it ever been there (unless chemically
stripped once before -but unlikely from the rest of the evidence). 

So Task Force Masters, given the truck was originally one tone, Dawn Blue,
would a dash top in black and dash face in off-white be a possible
combination? Tell me more  - tell me more?


Paul W. Franchina
pfoxtrot@gate.net
& Boris: 1958 Chevrolet Apache 3100 Stepside
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