Hey 1st Gen Pickup Crowd! **83 & Earlier ONLY** (Post your Pics Please!)
#2417
#2418
Picture and paint advise?
Hey Guys
You might rememeber I posted this some time back, but not sure what pictures I posted? Its been a while.
Nothing special about the truck really, but the bumpers and sidesteps are homemade.
I obviously need paint. I have paint, primer, paper, filler, tape, a compressor and 4 or 5 paint guns. I don't have many excuses left heheh
What I am soliciting advise on is what to do after I have the base paint done?
Its asphalt grey. I can't hardly see asphalt colored cars on the road myself. I want to do ==something== to make the truck more visible on the road.
Lines, stripes, something.
Anybody seen any graphics/contrasting colors they like with dark gray?
yours Scott
You might rememeber I posted this some time back, but not sure what pictures I posted? Its been a while.
Nothing special about the truck really, but the bumpers and sidesteps are homemade.
I obviously need paint. I have paint, primer, paper, filler, tape, a compressor and 4 or 5 paint guns. I don't have many excuses left heheh
What I am soliciting advise on is what to do after I have the base paint done?
Its asphalt grey. I can't hardly see asphalt colored cars on the road myself. I want to do ==something== to make the truck more visible on the road.
Lines, stripes, something.
Anybody seen any graphics/contrasting colors they like with dark gray?
yours Scott
#2419
Love the Toyota charcoal gray with silver stripes.....Especially the 2nd Gen PU/87 & 88 graphics (Mud Splash) like my 87 has....but also the 84-85 graphics as well.
That's alottaTube!
That's alottaTube!
#2420
thanks
Yeah I went and looked up the 84=5 graphics and they looks about perfect to me! $250 a set so I will be painting probably not perfy perfect but close enough!
The bumpers and side steps are not really tube. Its standard schedule 40 pipe.
2" for the bumpers and 1 1/4" for the steps.
I had some time with a pipe bender and a boneyard of old mining scrap, and long nights on the graveyard shift.
Its sturdy, not just for show,
got to give it that.
yours Scott
The bumpers and side steps are not really tube. Its standard schedule 40 pipe.
2" for the bumpers and 1 1/4" for the steps.
I had some time with a pipe bender and a boneyard of old mining scrap, and long nights on the graveyard shift.

Its sturdy, not just for show,
got to give it that.
yours Scott



and from looking at ur truck it looks like it would climb straight over mine it's pure beast I love it!