Okay over the years I have seen several NOS trim pieces for the hoods of the 48-52 trucks. My question is what is the "ford" supposed to be painted for each year? I have seen red and blue. What about the Hub caps?? I have that black and red 51 that I am approaching putting trim on and would like to know what the stock colors were.. Also my gpa has a 49 that is that dark green that he wants to know the colors for his also.

 

All I've seen are medium blue letters. Mercury, I think, was red.

 

I concur with Havi. Blue lettering on trim and hubcaps.

 

My 52 has blue painted letters. Mercury was red.

 

Alright cool. What shade of blue? I had always used ford tractor blue. Also on the 49s i remember someone telling me several years ago that there is supposed to be red pinstriping on the grille somewhere??

 

Just regular Ford blue should be fine. I believe that the 48s only had the red pin stripe on the grille. It was on each grille bar directly below the top ridge.

 

IMO red looks better on the trim with most body colors...

I sure would like to know how they put the paint on things like the tailgate letters, the trim letters, radio delete letters, etc. Seems like it has to have been a soilk screen process.

 

Well the color of my truck will be redfire metallic and black... Ill have to play around and see how it looks.

 

The 'FORD' on the 48-50 hubcaps also did have color variation. I have seen both black and what looks like Sheridan Blue. There may be other colors as well. I believe the beauty rings had a pin stripe that matched the hub cap color.

 

All of the stainless hubcaps had blue letters. In 1952, due to the Korean war, Ford switched to argent silver painted steel hubcaps, with red letters. They eventually switched back to stainless, and continued to produce them up into the 1980's. The last ones had black letters, and were of poor quality.
The hood trim on all 1948-51 Ford And Mercury trucks had the same blue fill as the early hubcaps, and all 1952's had the same red fill as the steel hubcaps.
Chuck