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1982 Toyota RN48 SR5 Long Bed thread

original Gray or current Blue

  • gray

    Votes: 17 94.4%

  • blue

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • Total voters
    18
simps80

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so..
@SteveH and @Telly know this truck well...
this is my 1982 SR5 Hilux in its current blue.
I am going to get this truck painted. Either in blue or the original gray.
Which would you do?
The paint was done well, door jams etc.
The firewall and inner fenders are still original gray.
I am stripping it down currently no glass no handles no exterior trim etc etc. before taking it for paint.

Should I go back to original paint color or stick with the vibrant blue?

the reason for the paint is you can kinda see in this picture - some of the panels aren't quite the same blue
and this truck is likely going to get sold to fund the completion of that spring green 40 you can see vaguely in the background

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This truck was originally this color:

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simps80

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oh and I will be putting the sr5 stripes back on it after paint -
just different stripe colors depending on paint if that impacts the opinion
 
Telly

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Dang...the torture of not seeing that truck in my garage any longer. @SteveH did a great job with the restoration. When I owned it, I was planning to repaint in the original grey color with just a slight bit more metallic added to the mix. Stripes are a must too!
 
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i agree SteveH did a great restoration job and that vibrant blue is super appealing to the ol eye balls…

but for resale i think the original paint color that matches the VIN might be preferable to most??question mark?
 
Telly

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Totally agree on the resale. That was the biggest driver for my thoughts of going back to grey, although I wanted it to 'pop' just a little bit with the added metallic. The original grey is sorta flat.
 
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I like subdued colors on 1st gen mini trucks, they're simple trucks with utilitarian lines. They added flare with the stripes. I'd go back to gray personally.

But you know I've driven 040 Super White trucks (spanning just two trucks) for 26 years and my outlier is the 1985 tan, which ain't exactly testing fashion boundaries. Toying with black, Marty McFly of course, but I think that would grow real old real quick. We have a black Jetta and it stays clean for about 23 minutes after washing and cool inside for even less time in the summer. The 2nd gens take colors better I think, they look really good in red to me but I love the two tone white/gray on them.

Hard to say about resale. Being a more bold color I think worked against Dean's 1980. Felt like it attracted flaky people. The more collector types who actually have cash to buy may want to be faithful to the build plate.
 
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subzali

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Gray here
 
Old40Dog

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Go original Gray with the stripes!
 
Telly

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Or sell back to me.....
 
simps80

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Telly said:
Or sell back to me.....
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if you’re serious let me know and we can talk..
it will get more pricey based on this paint work which it may not be too late to pull the plug there

selling it to a member here would be easier (and therefore cheaper) than what it does on BaT
 
Telly

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Yeah, I would be interested in chatting if you decide to part with it after the paint job. Might be out of my reach at that point but I really do miss that truck and I would consider selling a rig from my fleet to get it back.
 
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Since you are selling it, gray. If it was mine and I was painting it to keep, I would go with blue.
 
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well this is interesting
the fuel pump started dumping fuel out what appears to be a weep hole on this non-oem but pretty fuel pump
i have a good Kyosan oem one off a 2f from an fj60…

i looked up the 22r fuel pump comes back to a 23100-61070 which should also be the same as a fj60 2f…

they are NOT siblings it would appear…


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the plumbing i could get to work but this 2f pump ain’t gonna jam up into this block and mount…

weird.
so i have another china pump coming tomorrow via the jungle truck…
what came off this truck is on M60416 which is apparently a carter pump..

so.. back to stripping the now not running truck

the windshield guy showed up and pulled the front and rear glass but would only do it if i paid him in advance to put it back in.
then broke the windshield taking it out
so that’s cool
 
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simps80 said:
she naked on this side
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Mike, good luck with Chinese fuel pumps. I went through three of them on the ‘55 Merc before giving up. Sent the OEM to California to be rebuilt and it works perfectly. That it took six months and five times the cost of a Chinese pump was a pain but no more getting stuck on the side of the road is the bottom line.
 
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