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My 1955 F100 is Sea Sprite Green and the top of the cab is painted white. I have seen information that says some trucks did come two-tone as an option. However, my VIN plate only shows G (Sea Sprite Green) as the color code, and nothing else. If it is a factory two-tone, what would the VIN show for color code? I've also seen info that says all the wheels were only painted snowshoe white rather than matching the truck color. Does anyone know the facts here? Thanks.
My 1955 F100 is Sea Sprite Green and the top of the cab is painted white. I have seen information that says some trucks did come two-tone as an option. However, my VIN plate only shows G (Sea Sprite Green) as the color code, and nothing else. If it is a factory two-tone, what would the VIN show for color code? I've also seen info that says all the wheels were only painted snowshoe white rather than matching the truck color. Does anyone know the facts here? Thanks.
I can't help you with the VIN number for factory two tone. Actually it is not a VIN number, but merely a data plate number. My guess is that the data plate did not list that option on the plate.
But in 53 and 54 the wheels of F100 trucks where painted the body color. In 55 the wheels, and the grille, of F100 trucks were painted snowshoe white as you've stated. In 56 the wheels were painted Colonial White.
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Hard to say for certain if it had ever been repainted but the '55 I had in the early '70s was Sea Sprite. The wheels , grill and roof were all matching white.
Hard to say for certain if it had ever been repainted but the '55 I had in the early '70s was Sea Sprite. The wheels , grill and roof were all matching white.
Did your data plate indicate that the truck was two tone?
On the vin or data plate they have a code for specialty paint or custom paint I believe the two tones were labeled with that. My 51 coe was built for shell oil and had that code on it. One of these guys will explain it better.
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Factory two tone trucks would have had two letters stamped on the data plate. The secondary color is always listed last. It's been that way forever. The code for Snowshoe White is E, so the tag should read GE if it were factory two tone. There's always a chance there was a mistake at the plant and the code got missed, but it's more likely it was painted later, either at the dealer before a sale, after a sale if the customer wanted a white top and the dealer didn't have one in stock, or subsequently by a previous owner over the past 60some years.
Factory two tone trucks would have had two letters stamped on the data plate. The secondary color is always listed last. It's been that way forever. The code for Snowshoe White is E, so the tag should read GE if it were factory two tone. There's always a chance there was a mistake at the plant and the code got missed, but it's more likely it was painted later, either at the dealer before a sale, after a sale if the customer wanted a white top and the dealer didn't have one in stock, or subsequently by a previous owner over the past 60some years.
Mistakes? My 54 F100 data plate has an 'R' for the paint code. 'R' was the code for Meadow Green in 1953. In 54 Meadow Green was changed to 'U' as it is in 1955. But whoever was punching the letters and numbers on the plate put the old 1953 code for Meadow Green instead of 'U'. In 1954 'R' stood for Vermilion. So mistakes are made. And this one might have been an easy one to make since the code changed from 1953, but my truck was built late in the year, August 19, 1954.
Mistakes? My 54 F100 data plate has an 'R' for the paint code. 'R' was the code for Meadow Green in 1953. In 54 Meadow Green was changed to 'U' as it is in 1955. But whoever was punching the letters and numbers on the plate put the old 1953 code for Meadow Green instead of 'U'. In 1954 'R' stood for Vermilion. So mistakes are made. And this one might have been an easy one to make since the code changed from 1953, but my truck was built late in the year, August 19, 1954.
late in the year aye? I'd say the guy hadn't been getting much sleep due to the fact he'd been looking at those 54 grills all day and every day. Probably had a lot of night terrors
