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UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $14,000.
No combat rims. Looks solid.
“1942 GPW Restored, rebuilt engine, brakes, transmission, transfer case, and new tires. Call to set up a time to view.”
This is a nice restoration with a DARKER ARMY BROWN COLOR, more the color I remember when I was a kid. I’ve seen a lot of military Jeep restorations with different military colors, This brown, olive drab, even tan.
My question being, (now this gets technical, not my style) Were the military Jeeps painted different colors according to specifications when the vehicles were produced, if so, can this be determined by the attached original vin plate? In other words, “Was there a method to the madness?”
I always wondered about this, so many, so called restored “CORRECT” Willys Jeeps on the market, would this factor into, if indeed they are a correct restoration.
Just one of those questions I’ve been scratching my head about for 50 plus years.
I’m with Mike: I’d really like to know more about the correct colors. I thought I’d looked up and applied the “correct” shade of OD green to my 42 GPW but mine is not as rich as others in our MV club who also painted theirs “correct”/original. And then there’s the USMC bluer shade of green, overly pronounced in the miniseries “The Pacific” jeeps (they look almost blue green). WAS the movie color correct? Were European Theater and especially Invasion Jeeps (with the popular invasion stars, like this jeep, above) a different shade?
And that’s just the WWII OD green variations… I want to paint my 44 MB in desert tan, but the shade our paint store sells me in rattle cans seems more brown than I remember, and not as light/beige as I like.
Even though there was a standardization of the colors, there was a lot of variation between lots and different manufacturers.
You also need to take in account of the picture quality. The first pic of the whole Jeep looks dark green/brown, but the shots of the inner fender and rear seat area looks more green