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I have a question regarding factory painted parts in a 1953 F-100. My truck came from the factory in Seafoam Green. The owner had it painted grey many years ago. The fan blade and parts of the engine are still green. Is this factory? What other accents did the factory add? I see some restorations with matching painted rims while others are painted black. Some have black bumpers, others are chrome. Is there a resource somewhere that has reference pictures for factory configurations?
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Kevin Kessler
1953 Ford F-100
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Kevin Kessler
1953 Ford F-100
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My first truck was a '53. The engine flathead V-8 was green w/ black accessories in trucks. I've seen this paint color available from time to time, but it kind of hard to find. It's like the green they used on 332 FE's and some late 50's Merc engines ( Ford was big on color coding engines in everything ). There were no major chrome pieces on '53's. No chrome bumpers, only black. Wheels were body color on '53 F100. I've gleaned this information from from catalogs and personal experience over 30 years.
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 23-Aug-02 AT 08:59 PM (EST)]For what it's worth, here are a couple of pages from a Ford brochure for 1956. Steve Eldred from Battle Creek, MI gets the big thank you for the images.
From what I can gather on a few other threads the yellow/black engine color scheme seems to be original - at least for this year.
The interiors - I dunno. Looks like the illustrator thought you could get various colors - and some wild ones at that! Old Henry "Any color so long as it's black" must be turning in his grave.
As far as the wheels are concerned, there are about 5 or 6 pages showing various trucks including the tires and wheels. Almost all the wheels are shown as black although there are a couple shown with either a silver or light yellow color that doesn't match the body color. I'm just doing mine now on my restoration and they'll be that semi-gloss black. None of the wheels shown in the brochure match the body color. The brochure is 18 pages and I figured Ken would probably frown on that many images in a post.
Hope this adds to the confusion ... er helps!
George
https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gallery/sizeimage.php?&photoid=7967&.jpg
https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gallery/sizeimage.php?&photoid=7965&.jpg
https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gallery/sizeimage.php?&photoid=7966&.jpg
From what I can gather on a few other threads the yellow/black engine color scheme seems to be original - at least for this year.
The interiors - I dunno. Looks like the illustrator thought you could get various colors - and some wild ones at that! Old Henry "Any color so long as it's black" must be turning in his grave.
As far as the wheels are concerned, there are about 5 or 6 pages showing various trucks including the tires and wheels. Almost all the wheels are shown as black although there are a couple shown with either a silver or light yellow color that doesn't match the body color. I'm just doing mine now on my restoration and they'll be that semi-gloss black. None of the wheels shown in the brochure match the body color. The brochure is 18 pages and I figured Ken would probably frown on that many images in a post.
Hope this adds to the confusion ... er helps!
George
https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gallery/sizeimage.php?&photoid=7967&.jpg
https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gallery/sizeimage.php?&photoid=7965&.jpg
https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gallery/sizeimage.php?&photoid=7966&.jpg
