olive drab 55-59 chevy trucks

i am considering painting my truck olive green (the "camoflauge" olive spray paint from walmart) for now sincei have come to the realization that in 2 years i will be stripping it back down to bare metal again anyways....

anyone have pics so i can see what it might look like?

 

ok, so how about ANY olive vehicles?

 

This is the only olive green anything I have!

 

I dont know if this is really olive green but heres one more....

 

go army!

jesse james , i believe had a olive drab 54, one of the magizines built a 70-72 camaro that color, ten thousand 4x4s, and a couple hundred thousand army vehicles have been painted with olive drab.

put some offical looking numbers on the side and some flags on the fenders and a big star emblem on the door ;presto army clone.

just messin wit ya! it would be cool if you can keep it from looking all streaked.

 

If you plan on spray bombing iit with a rattle can use any color semi gloss or flat rustoleum or some other tinted primer. That color green makes these trucks look as if they are ex-army vehicles, which is fine if that's the look you're going after, but there are alot more options than the "camo line" of rattle can paint. I think there's a picture of an olive drab tri five chevy truck on this forum in the offical 55-59 chevy truck thread. PM me if you want to discuss this more. I have a 57 Chevy short bed pick up that's flat white and runs a big block. I had the stock three speed and a hopped up 235 in it too, so I'm pretty knowledgable about these vehicles.
Good Luck,
Seth

 

well, i have a set of crager SS wheels that are badly chipped, so i'm planning to scuff them up and paint them flat black, and i figured the olive would look good with the black wheels....

i'm gonna look for that thread now...

 

I thought about it, too, but I decided it might be more "rednecky" than I really wanted to go. Mine still has fairly stock suspension and huge *** commando tires.

This guy is on the HAMB somewhere:



Anywho, more pictures of this here:

http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y212/cdorneman/1956 Chevy Truck/

 

Olive vehicles:






















This is where to buy the Gillespie paint, its the paint most military vehicle restoration guys use. I just ordered two gallons, 3 cans for $144.00 with shipping and hazmat charges (for my Mustang project):
http://www.armyjeepparts.com/order_page/paint_bottom_1.htm

If you like high speed high dollar stuff this is the paint for you:
http://www.milspray.com/products/mv-restoration-paint.html

 

Heres the F-Bomb Camaro as mentioned above:


Here is the real deal:

 

this is something i was thinking about....olive green with black scallops.....

we shall see

 

The more I see it, the more I like it. I think that truck of yours would look pretty good with olive drab paint and some black wheels.
Seth