White body with top different color?

[CG]

Dunno why I was thinking about this, usually its the other way around. White top different color body.

Anybody running with a white body and a top painted blue or green or whatever?

[Steeveedee]

There are paint codes out there, somewhere. Maybe a paint code exists, so maybe a truck painted like the code exists? Idunno. It'll be interesting to find out.

[jocko]

I believe the only way to get that combo is with a Special Paint RPO.

['68OrangeSunshine]

Some Yellow K/5 Blazers came with a Black top.
It was a neat look.
Yellow with a White top would remind me too much of frozen banana cream pie.

[special-K]

I had a yellow '72 Blazer with black top.

On the white truck with colored top, it would have been as Jocko stated, and I don't recall ever seeing one. To me, that is a look of the '80s trucks when they were trying to do something different. The only combo I would like would be a minty metallic green with matching interior or lighter metallic blue with matching interior. Those are combinations you saw on '60s cars.

[CG]

Yeah I was thinking I doubt anyone factory ordered something like that. And I couldn't remember seeing one someone had done "custom"

Ill have to render one up on the computer. Im sure that will tell me why it isn't a thing =)

[Warrens69GMC]

well, someone did....

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/c...78.html#agal_1

[CG]

Hmmm, I kind of like that. I wonder if it would look a little better with a 67 style paint on the roof ... White A pillers

[Warrens69GMC]

I think it needs 1967 painted trim same as roof color.

[67swb72klb]

When I get caught up I want to do my 72 the opposite of how it normally would have been done with just the blue in the middle only I had a pic saved but its in an old dead computer..

[Warrens69GMC]

Originally Posted by CG

Hmmm, I kind of like that. I wonder if it would look a little better with a 67 style paint on the roof ... White A pillars

So you Almost want a pace truck!!

[72 tigger]

Originally Posted by 67swb72klb

When I get caught up I want to do my 72 the opposite of how it normally would have been done with just the blue in the middle only I had a pic saved but its in an old dead computer..

Cool K20

[special-K]

Originally Posted by 72 tigger

Cool K20

Thanks! I wish I still had it, Kirk

Now that this combo has come up, it seems I have seen exactly the opposite on "one" truck shown here years ago that was from factory. That is the only factory reverse 2-tone I have seen.

I only like 2-tone if it looks factory. You can do your own thing that appears factory. Otherwise, step away from what the factory did and be truly custom. I like customs all one color or with trick paint. A vehicle all one color shows off the overall body style/body lines best and show what is custom better.

Here are the combinations I talked about in my other post. although the green is not the minty green I meant. The blue is spot-on. It's the green with the same value as that blue. Like my son's old '65 Biscayne Wagon that has a matching interior color

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by Warrens69GMC

So you Almost want a pace truck!!

Why is the Official GMC Pace Truck a Chevy?
That truck's a couple headlights short of a full grille.

[nightrider388]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

Why is the Official GMC Pace Truck a Chevy?
That truck's a couple headlights short of a full grille.

In 1980 the gmc's had single headlights.

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by nightrider388

In 1980 the gmc's had single headlights.

Wow. No way. I did not know that. I think at one point in the Fifties, Chevy trucks had quad headlights and the GMCs had only two, but I'm not an expert on that period either.
Thanks.

[special-K]

73-80 all GM trucks had single headlights. After that, both Chevy and GMC used dual in fancier trucks and single lights were standard. So, '72 was the last year of GMC = dual headlights and Chevy = single.

[Warrens69GMC]

Originally Posted by CG

Hmmm, I kind of like that. I wonder if it would look a little better with a 67 style paint on the roof ... White A pillars

Here you go..... Still needs the upper color as a paint break IMO

[CG]

I like it. What do you mean about the paint break?

[Warrens69GMC]

I don't do photoshop, picture a orange stripe along the lower body line.

[CG]

Oh ok, got it. Yeah that would probably look good too.

[chewychevy67]

You mean paint below the lower body line the same as the roof?

[Warrens69GMC]

Originally Posted by chewychevy67

You mean paint below the lower body line the same as the roof?

Yes, like a 67-68 trim or even a pinstripe

[Warrens69GMC]

Here you can see , two similar trucks - one is just white, the other has a red trim paint break

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by Warrens69GMC

Here you can see , two similar trucks - one is just white, the other has a red trim paint break

Cool. It really dresses up plain vanilla.