My 77 F150 had its original Dark Jade Metallic before it was totalled. My 76 came as a 2 tone brown, but I rattlecanned the whole thing grey.

 

76 IS ORIGINAL orange with white roof soon to be red with white top??

 

I'm pretty sure That would be Tangerine or Chrome Yellow

 

My old '75 high boy was repainted to factory specs. That was years ago. Photos in my gallery.

 

4 the answer to the poll it would probaly depend on the truck and paint job. if the truck is all orignal like orignal oil in the engine leave the factioy paint, or if restoring the truck to orignal paint by code unless its just plain ugly or if the truck has mods do what ever u feel like with the paint.

 

Paint on my 76 F350 supercab is original. Can be seen at my gallery.

 

Mine's red with white top (see gallery). I thought I'd repaint it silver or charcoal, but the red/white combo is really growing on me. Plus I really don't want to go to the trouble of changing out the interior color (which I would feel obliged to do if the outside was changed).

For that color combo did they paint the whole cab white first, then paint up to the top in the other color? I started working out the dents and rust in mine and found white under the red on the doors.

 

Original! Limestone Green Poly over Winter Green. Classic 1973 color scheme!

 

Mine has to get new paint. It's multi hued right now because of the replacement panels, and a few dings and dents. It's going to be either white with navy blue stripes or navy blue with white stripes. Probably white with blue stripes, because it's the easiest and cheapest.

 

Poly? Poly what? Polly want a cracker?

These trucks were painted with acrylic enamel originally.

 

C'mon theres no way an original paint can stand up to the weather around here, more than 100 days a year above 100 degrees F. I think this is the third time we paint this truck.
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Just ask if you don't know Numberdummy! Paint codes are "QU" which you helped me out halfway sometime back.

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I do know...cuz I have the reference.

From the 1973/79 Ford Light Truck Parts Catalog / Paint Section, Page 4.

1973: Q = Light Yellow Green Acrylic Enamel // U = Medium Lime Metallic Acrylic Enamel

Where is Poly anything? No see um.

I'll betcha y'all don't know the following:

Thru 1923, there was no such thing as lacquer or enamel paint. No polyurethane, either.

Thru 1923, all automakers vehicles were VARNISHED, not painted. Since it took several days for the coats of varnish to be applied and black varnish dried the quickest...

Now you know why Henry Ford once said: "You can have any color...so long as its black."

In the early 1920's, DuPont invented DUCO enamel, the first vehicle to be painted with it was the 1924 Oldsmobile.

Fords were painted with Duco Enamel from 1925 thru 1959. With acrylic enamel beginning in 1960 and thru the 1980's.

 

WOW! I guess you still haven't seen the paint name information from the FORD codes as I attached in the prior post. And to quote,

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No nonsense straight shooter...old, cranky and miserable to get along with."

The "No nonsense straight shooter" shouldn't be interchangeable with plain "RUDE" which you sometimes are in your posts, just like in the last two for me. As for the rest, probably pretty accurate. And if you didn't have the knowledge, nobody would communicate with you at all, would be my guess. Ummmm, I'm done with you now!

 

No nonsense straight shooter to some...may come across as being rude.

Try spending 35 years waiting on ppl at parts counters, and then another 3 years doing the same thing on the internet. How much tolerance do you think you would have left?

I admit...I have very little left.

If you took my posts to you as being rude, I APOLOGIZE as that was not my intention.

All I was trying to do was to inform you that there was no poly anything associated with these trucks.

That link to the paint charts is from PPG, an aftermarket company, it's not genuine Ford.

The Q & U colors I posted came straight from the Ford truck parts catalog's paint section.

Ford used different names for the same color on different vehicles. Ford also used "promotional names" for paint colors in sales brochures.

Here's an example of a COLOR code for a 1967 F250 I decoded for someone several days ago on another site.

COLOR code E: Light Metallic Beige (F100/350); Medium Beige Metallic (Galaxie, LTD, Mustang, Falcon, Fairlane); Beige Mist (Thunderbird); Antique Beige (Lincoln).

I got this info from the actual 1967 FoMoCo paint chip chart the dealers used at the parts counter. I got this chart (and others) from Pasadena Ford when they closed August 2008.

This chart has actual chips glued to the heavy paper it's composed of. These are not pics of the colors.