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I am working on the mirror inside the cab, and I am wondering what color the base of the mirror is. The one I have looks gray, but it is rusty. Where all the mirror frames on the 1966 custom cabs painted the same maybe
gray?
Not the same as the outside mirror gray. These two NOS mirrors are even a little different than each other. I'm not sure how to describe it, but sort of a Kakhi color, for lack of a better choice.
I've also seen them in the Argent color, like The Curmudgeon said, much like the visor arm clips in your picture. I've also seen the visor clips in the same color as the inside mirrors in this post like the one below. That's the correct clip number, the trucks share the part number with the Econolines (U).
Cheeees Chad you have all the cool pieces. I really enjoy seeing the NOS posts you share. I have some NOS for old English cars. Anyways, I try and redo the Truck with originality when I can. Heck maybe one of the kids will stay at with this old truck, but I like doing it now, it keeps me on the straight and narrow, and I like the stock look.
I can see my mirror is your kaki mirror--- that is it--- thanks a lot man. The clips are different; they have a metallic look like perhaps that argent had or silver metal paint. I will get a better pic, but the light bounces off. I got your tail gate on for a dry fit and some work done in the cab---it is driver.
steve
Not really a khaki, Khaki is tan. What I found to be the closest to it was WW2 GPW Ford jeep engine gray. and again these come in numerous different shades. real hard to match the color. but it's not tan.
The mirror was supposed to be a match to the visors, which were gray, and the headliner was gray. Ford had strange tast in color coordination. Gray headliner, gray visor, grayish mirror. black dash pad, and body color dash and seat..
Not all visors were grey. The non-padded visors were gray like these with stitching around the edges. Ford actually called it Gray or Pewter for these.
The padded visors came in an assortment of colors. Red, black, blue, beige and green, at least. My one red truck has red padded visors and my gold and white truck have the beige padded visors. Here's a picture of the beige padded ones. Note there is no stitching around the edges of the padded ones. These were available a number of ways from the Safety Package up to the Deluxe Camper Special Package which included the padded visors as part of the equipment installed.
Some people have noted their original inside mirror was more of the Argent silver color and there are also ones of that color available on ebay from time to time. I've never purchased one of them since all of my trucks seem to have this other color. I've not had to color match it since I've been able to find genuine Ford mirrors as in my first post above. You can call it whatever color you want, it is what it is, or was.
Ford is also notorious for making changes mid run, for many reasons, such as shortages and things one cant explain. So paint is what ever you like for your taste. Unless doing a concurs restoration, Then one would need to buy one of TA 455HO's that is in the ford box.
I do have a few outside mirrors in original paint that are close to a 'Light Machine Gray' (ignoring the white painted items). Definitely different than the inside mirrors in either Argent (silver) or our mystery color. I'll try to take an NOS inside mirror or both to the local Wesco auto body supply where they have one of the paint color scanners and see what it says if it can ID something close.
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