color

hillbilly21 · Post by **hillbilly21** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 4:33 am

I have one here that has BUMBLE BEE YELLOW under all the OD ???

Go figure !!!

Never thought about the NAVY having them white for beach patrol..

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:43 am

I forget which, either a MVPA publication or
Military Vehicles, but it had a completely yellow
WW 2 jeep in front of a B24 as a 'follow me' vehicle.

Jim in Darkest Arkansas (and it's snowing, too.)

53a1 · Post by **53a1** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:27 pm

Are you sure bubba didn't paint it yellow at one time? That was a popular color for hunting rigs. What's under the yellow?

hillbilly21 · Post by **hillbilly21** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:04 am

primer grey then metal.

sanded the hood for numbers --NOTHING but yellow paint

removed tranny cover under the seal was primer grey..you could see some yellow seeped into the canvas seal..

Post by **wesk** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:55 am

Unless you can date the age of the yellow paint the jeep could have been completely stripped and repainted yellow during an early restoration effort in the 60's which as you can see is still half a century ago. Without scientifically dating the paint there is no 100% positive proof either way.

madmike · Post by **madmike** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:20 am

Another addition to this conversation. I have posted before that I have a USMC 1961 A1 with yellow wheels. It turns out that with it's hood number beginning with a 94 prefix, and a friend pointing out that an all yellow A1 appears in a picture of a book titled Marine Air has a 94 prefix, and both having US Navy on the hood, I am certain that mine was attached to a Navy or Marine air base. In trying to match the yellow paint on the wheels, the closest Ihave come is a Catapillar color. Cat has several different colors and none are really right on....but close.