VCCA Home Forums TECHNICAL - 1945 AND EARLIER 1933-1936 1936 Town Car Paint Scheme

I am starting to paint the various parts of my town car.
Its originally black but I want to go Navy Blue so I'm a little unsure of some of the paint colors for the secondary parts of the car.

Is Navy Blue is the only blue appropriate for 36?

Please fill in the blanks if you can:

Exterior Body - Navy Blue (does anyone know if the repo color of TCP Paint is an accurate reproduction of the original color?)

Wheels - Black front and back, inside and outside ?
Frame - Black?
Underbody - Black?
Trunk interior- ?
Rear differential - ?
Front axel- ?
Transmission- ?
Brakes - ?
Gas Tank- ?
Interior of car - ? (I'm asking here about the body parts I'm aware that the dash is a different color)
Engine - Blue Grey from the filling station

BLACK engine parts:
fan, oil filler, gen. and starter, distributor, transmission,lower bracket (under the generator)
Bumper Brackets
Chassis
"The under side of the fenders and running boards was black. Not real high gloss."
Top side of the running boards- body color??

"The under hood and inner grille shell was a medium gray, also not real high gloss. Was actually a waterproof primer and can be found under the top (outer) color of the hood and shell."

How grey primergrey?
"The under hood body firewall and exposed body area under the rear fenders was body color as the body was painted at the Fisher Body plant before the sheet metal was installed."

Please add any detail here you can as I'd like to get this right the first time.

Thanks All in advance.

I think you mean Town Sedan which is a 2 door with a trunk.
Will give a reply tomorrow if no one else does.

Yes, Town Sedan. Two doors and a trunk.

Thanks in advance for the answers.

Navy (dark) blue was the only blue offered
For the Standard all wheels were black.
frame and underbody black.
Trunk interior. Some say their's is body color and some say black,wood shelves are dull black.
differential is black.
Front axle and shocks black, springs not painted, shocks black.
Transmission black
Brake drums and backing plates black.
Gas tank not painted. Was made from Ternplate, a rust resistant metal was a dull silver color.
Interior. Garnish mouldings wood grained. Steering wheel, shift lever, steering column, hannd brak lever black
Engine pars-correct.
Top of running boads body color....under side of running boards and fenders black.
Any braces, air deflectors behind the grille black. Shell as stated.
The under side of the hood and shell gray was fairly dark.

I mailed some pictures and info.

Thank you for the email. Very interesting.

I'll look at my existing parts to get an idea of the gray color.

Any idea if the TCP repo blue is a good match for the original blue?

Thanks for taking the time to answer/email me.

My 4 door standard Sport Sedan trunk boards and floor were grey. I had some porch enamel, medium grey, and it matched perfectly. My car was original and pulled out of a junk yard in about 1965. Inside trunk lid was body color, black. The sides were covered with a burlap type cloth.

Ron -- thanks for posting the questions. I am in the same boat as you. I have my 36 chassis almost complete and hopefully soon will be marring the body back on and then off to the body shop. I also have been curious about those paint schemes. so far thanks to Chevy Nut I am in compliance. My original color was the dark grey and I'm thinking about sticking with that color. Not sure though. I have seen some cars with the fenders and running boards painted a different color from the body. Anybody have any thoughts about this? Is this a problem for judging? In all the sales brochures I have seen I have not seen any combinations of different colors to accent. Was this an option back in the day? Or in our times should you just go with what you like and be dammed on the historical data. I'm old school myself. Kinda like to hear what other opinions are.

Only solid colors were used after 1934. The common darker gray in 1936 was paint # 202, Tampa Metallic. It was a fine metallic color and very popular. If it is a Master the wheels will be gray also. Both the Master and Standard had stripes on the wheels and body moulding.

Does that mean that they all had body and wheel stripes or that they could have had a stripe?

And for the navy blue that would have been a gold paint stripe, correct?

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I have an original 1936, Town Sedan that I have restored. I have kept it original. I can email pre-restoration photos and after restoration photos if you would like contact me via email at terrillj@bellsouth.net. (Note: this car was made in the Saint Louis, Mo. plant and sold by a dealer in East Detroit. I am the third owner.)

Yes, gold/bronze was used for striping the wheels and body raised moulding (with Navy Blue).

Gene,
Thanks as always for the input. Would you by chance have any pictures or description of how the pin-striping would look on the wheels of a 36 Master. I have seen a lot of different layouts.

Thanks Terrill, you've been kind enough to send me pix in the past. It's a little hard to tell in photos whats black and what would be body color.

The 1936 Master has a single stripe around the rim that intersected with the valve stem hole and two stripes around the hub cap.
With your paint #202 ,Taupe metallic, the stripe would be silver.
(there was a lighter medium gray)
The belt moulding had two stripes.
None of the stripes were very wide.

1935 and 1936 Masters used two different wheels. The two 4 door models and the trunk 2 door had artillery wheels and the coupes and trunkless 2 door had wire wheels. The wire wheels were not striped and could be painted cream, red, or black, depending on the color of the car.

Terrific -- Thank You

Re asking this question. For a Standard, do they all have a strip or was it optional? And is there a guide for placement of the stripe?

Thanks

The stripe for the Standard follows the same pattern as the Master.
I know of no "guide".

Sorry Gene I got one more for ya (for now). The Black on the vertical sides of the grill -- Flat or Satin? Also the same question for the accent groves in the door handles and the single winged bird hood ornament.

Tom H.

The factory use a fairly glossy enamel.I guess you would call it satin today.
Nothing in the door handles and black lines in the taller accessory hood ornament.

Mine had an original silver stripe. That is what I put back on it.

What is the color of your 1936?

NAVY BLUE, SILVER PIN STRIPE, BLACK WHEELS, CHEAPER BLACK PAINT SEMI GLOSS UNDERSIDE

While I as a boy did not ever see these cars painted in any other color than NAVY BLUE, my color chart has for 1935-36 the following colors:

Willow Green
Toupe
Regatta Red
Cobessa Cream
Frosty Green
Regent Morgon
Pinehurst Green
Hollywood Tan
Dremland Blue
Adalrol Blue
Kingswood Gray
Regimental Blue
Quail Grey

It has been proven that a woman's eyes have more rods and cones than a man's eyes. So when I mixed the colors for an exact match to the original paint (I tested by painting a circle onto the top of the car door.) I used my wife's eyes to tell me the true color. It is dead on! A woman's eyes do not lie. (Get a woman to help you when it comes to color.)

Any blue color was rowned on back when the car was new because blue colors faded badly. Probably why not too many 1936 Chevrolets were Navy blue.
My Chevrolet material says Gold/Bronze for the stripe. Often when repained, as many cars were back then, Silver was used becasue it was more available in striping paints.
The only colors listed as having a silver stripe Taupe Metallic and Regatta Red which was a cabroilet color only.