Interesting original paint oddity.

[Bagd72Chevy]

Originally Posted by STP67-72

I had a dark blue 67 big window GMC swb a couple years ago .. It had fawn interior ( original paint ) and the complete firewall was fawn also with chalk marks. My buddy bought it and found out the firewall thing was GMC only !!!
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Good to know. someone had spray painted my firewall black but I wet sanded it off and found some chalk marks (illegible) but they hadnt prepped it.

[special-K]

In the pictures, the paint on the dash has a texture not consistent with factory paint. Is that turquiose on the firewall or is it 503 light green?

[hewittca]

Originally Posted by special-K

In the pictures, the paint on the dash has a texture not consistent with factory paint. Is that turquiose on the firewall or is it 503 light green?

I keep calling it turquoise but I suppose it is 503 "light green". I also noticed that the texture of the paint on the dash was odd. It appears to be the dark green, but then it has another layer on top that is flaking off, maybe like a clear coat or something. I thought at first maybe they sprayed some sort of matte clear on top of the single stage color, but I'm assuming that is wrong and that they just had matte finish single stage for the dash? This appears to be another indication that the dash was a repaint. If so, someone really went to town sanding off ALL the old paint because, as you can see, there is quite a bit of paint missing from the dash and no light green is present underneath.

[hewittca]

Mystery solved! Sorry to revive a thread from a few months ago but I believe I have found the source of the mystery 503 green, or so I thought it was. Originally, I thought for certain it was 503 under my 505 dark green. I even sanded a small spot to reveal what looked like more 503 underneath. Well, fast forward to last weekend when I started wet sanding/buffing my cab and much to my surprise, all the residue appeared to be 503 green! Looking back now at the original spot in question, it is clear that the paint was rubbed thin through contact with the back edge of the hood, resulting in the light green residual spot left behind. Here is a photo of the color sanding residue:



I sure am glad to have cleared that up. It still doesn't explain why my truck doesn't have the 503 green dash to match the column, but maybe mine was ordered this way? Who knows...

[LockDoc]

Originally Posted by notsolo

Nice original truck, Don't know the fine details of factory paint. Off topic, the cherry pumice Gojo works well taking schumtz off steering wheel without damaging it. https://www.zoro.com/gojo-gel-hand-c...04/i/G2754857/

A product called Goo-Gone works well too. (NOT the Extreme Goo-Gone) It is Citrus based.

LockDoc

[HO455]

This is a similar type of mystery that my Burban has. The kick panels and some of the under dash have a been painted blue or at least have blue over spray that is the 506 or 7 blue. From every where else it appears the truck was painted 503 green which agrees with the spid. Its like someone emptied the blue out of their paint sprayer in an out of the way place and the refiled it with the correct color, or started with the wrong color and switched. The photo shows the blue and green next to each other. Maybe the AA after the 503 stands for Added Azure. . I have done a fair amount of sanding on the Burban and found paint colors from several repaints, but this blue is over the factory primer not found any where else.

[Getter-Done]

Hello HO455
I have a 67 Chevy C30 that is 503 light green.
In my research /somewhere I found that they painted Anti-Glare on the dash and cowl area.
They may have sprayed that 506 or 7 you spoke of as that anti glare.
I will try to find that again and also take Pics of my Dash area in my Truck.

[HO455]

I have since removed the remains of my headliner and there is blue overspray above the jams and the window frames. I'm of the belief that they started to paint it blue and then changed their mind and made it green. I will try to remember to get a photo of it.