Tu-Tone Paint Scheme without Trim

[65fordguy]

My pickup is without the great looking 65-66 custom cab trim... but I love the two tone look... did ford ever do the two tone with out the trim?? or is that just people like me doing it after the fact...

please post some pics if ya have em, Thanks for the help.

and what are the dos and donts of making it look good??
I've seen some two tone jobs w/o trim that looks like crap.. and
some look great..

not factory but looks good





This is what im after... only im thinking silver blue poly ish.. windveil blue.. and white..

I actually have a color which is ford light ice blue... with course metallic base which lowers the tone to practically windveil blue.. only with lighter highlights and more of a shimmer.

windveil blue




Light Ice Blue



The course metallic looks great I did a spray out .. just wondering how it will look with white.





:-drink

[Max]

Well I'll be a sonofa.... cat's out of the bag now!

I'm doing the traditional two-tone on my '64 without the trim and following the body lines exactly like that.

My colors are Windveil Blue and Performance White from the 07+ Mustang palate. Might as well admit it sooner than later. I've always liked that Windveil Blue and think it would look great on a Slick.

[Gary Seymour]

I think that color is great,and would look nice two-toned with white, or a light gray wouldn't be too bad with it either.

[slickmainer]

here are some photos i've snagged, you have have seen it, i don't know.

http://fordtruk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15433

[fire truck]

MMMM... Me likey!

[The Big M]

Two-tone paint schemes without trim were a factory option, and looked precisely like the truck pictured above. My uni has a similar scheme, arranged in the same way, only in red and white. No trim. The body line marks the division point, as shown above.

In fact, I believe unibody side trim was only an option in '63.

[Greg D]

Stock two tone for a Uni with the exception of how the roof was done. Would have been the whole B pillar in the dark green - these are obviously not stock colors but the layout is the same.

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63-64 with the molding would have had the colors separate at the molding line - not at the windline. Again these are not stock colors but the separation is.

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65-66 are done the same as the 63-64 except the separation line is moved to accomodate the different trim.

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Roof cap only in a second color (usually white) is a 3rd factory option - available all years I believe.

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[Max]

I like the moldings on both trucks - 63/64 and 65/66, but not where the color breaks. Main reason why I decided not to go back with my side trim. The body lines on our trucks is just too cool to hide with paint in my opinion.

[65fordguy]

I like the moldings as well.. if I had 800 bucks lyin around I would buy some... however, I dont really feel like punching holes in my clean sides.

I had contemplated doing the roof only white... but after seeing many paint jobs with metallic paint on these trucks... Almost all of them I have seen, the paint around the hood lines, the metallic pools or shifts... causing irregularity in the paint.. some worse than others.. some you can barely tell..

So, I decided that laying down white on the hood and sides would eliminate the possibility of that happening...

I have a friend here who is a highschool auto body collision teacher... (Skills USA Winners) They do great work there, this year they have done a falcon, a 65 ford f100, a dune buggy, and are working on a 66 ?? mustang.
Last year a friend of mine let them do his

taking it from.


to


so they are doing the paint and body work for me, price is right,
they get something to work on, I get to help out 40 or so kids, and become a sponsor or whatever they call it. and the world is a better place.
Kevin (teacher) really keeps those guys and 2 girls straight... one kid almost got kicked out of school and he was able to help him out and keep him in school. he motivates them personally, professionally, and with their education. Each kid that qualify and shows interest gets a 2 year all paid scholarship to a autobody school of choice

I hope to be up there taking pics.. I will start a progress thread on it.. it just went in today.

[trukman69]

I like the two tone scheme. My uni will be ultra blue pearl on the lower and silver metallic on the upper with blue interior.