wheel & grill paint

bawrencher · Post by **bawrencher** » August 8, 2007, 1:53 pm

the grill on my 63 f100 is all white, but i have seen one's with a black &
white paint scheme. also if i recall ford white wheels were more of a
cream color, or maybe that was in the 70's. help senility sucks!

GLindley · Post by **GLindley** » August 8, 2007, 2:36 pm

I'll take a stab at this, but it is subject to the experts...
Back in those days, I believe that there were no grills painted any "body colors" and what was available was either wimbledon white (your cream color) or anodized aluminum.

mikecarson · Post by **mikecarson** » August 8, 2007, 5:16 pm

And, there was black paint in the "low" areas to make the bars stand out.

Gary Seymour · Post by **Gary Seymour** » August 8, 2007, 5:30 pm

Check out www.fordtruck.com/images/63fordcolor. I got the color "chip" list for my '62 there. The two whites available in '62 were corinthian white and milk white, codes M and C. The corinthian white is creamy. wimbledon white is very close, but I think a later color. at least later than '62.

Gary Seymour · Post by **Gary Seymour** » August 8, 2007, 5:37 pm

That's images/63color for the color list on the '63. Whites are the same as the '62 - Milk and Corinthian. Paint shops should be able to match the color from the code.

mikecarson · Post by **mikecarson** » August 8, 2007, 6:19 pm

Last time I painted the grille on my 62, I used Ivory Krylon, looked real close to me.

bawrencher · Post by **bawrencher** » August 11, 2007, 12:03 pm

mikecarson wrote:And, there was black paint in the "low" areas to make the bars stand out.

mike, what do you mean by "low" areas? i would think the vertical bars should be black, but what else?

mikecarson · Post by **mikecarson** » August 11, 2007, 1:18 pm

Around the headlights, also.