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I have a 1960 F100, F10J0A22368, with a color code 110. The interior is a blue. What is the official color and is there a cross reference color I can use for touch ups to the interior?
This truck was a Air Force truck at Hancock Field in Syracuse, NY. Bought stuck and with the bed and floors rotted out. Vin tag Government tag.
Welcome to FTE! The 110 you mentioned is the Wheel Base! The color code would normally appear in the space after it before the Model info. Apparently since this was a gov't purchase, they had some custom color and it was not included on the VIN tag. Looks like it came with a 223 six cylinder from the Atlanta plant.
This is as she sat on pickup 7 years ago. Someone painted it school bus yellow and the black.
I have since put new bed supports in, replaced the bottom 3inches on each bedside, and got a complete front panel donated.
My truck was purchased directly from the military, and I tried to bring it back to the way it looked when it was in service with the Coast Guard. You might consider doing the same. The color code was SS.
I run my truck in parades sometimes and everywhere I go with it, lots of people enjoy seeing it. They are reminded of people they used to know or things that happened in their lives. On one remarkable occasion, a retired CG guy saw me pull away from a parking spot and followed me for miles until I stopped again. He wanted to talk to me about my truck and find out what it was doing in the Pennsylvania mountains:
This is how the truck looked when I started working on it. Yours looks great in comparison:
Welcome and good luck with your project! We don't see many military trucks being restored here. You have a chance to do something a little different, and I hope you at least consider it.
I like your decision to celebrate your truck's military heritage. With a little looking, you may find an unfaded sample of the original Air Force blue your truck was originally painted. I think the original lettering may have been done in a shade of yellow. Several years ago there was a guy on the 48-56 forum with an old Air Force truck with restored original markings. Last fall, I took my truck back to the CG base in Sault Ste. Marie, MI where it came from, and the base commander himself came out to look at it. The AF base in Syracuse may have an historian that could tell you something about your truck and how it may have been used. I'm on the hunt for historic pictures of my truck, but so far haven't come up with any. The base commander gave me some contacts, but they haven't come through with anything yet.
I hope you enjoy this forum. There are lots of helpful knowledgable people here who can work you through any difficulties that may arise as get your truck back on the road.
You have to wonder sometimes just what becomes of some Original Posters. They take the time to sign up, proudly post up a few pictures of their newly acquired project, and then simply disappear. Ghostrider has a particularly interesting truck (at least to me) that many of us I think would enjoy following, but sadly he seems to have disappeared on us. I wonder if sometimes new members forget their log-in or password and then can't get back on the forum. In any case, something seems to have happened, because this promising thread has gone silent.
