Painting

[Billygoat]

I’ve been thinking about this for a bit for my coach. This will be after I get more immediate projects finished. Once I get the final mechanics and maybe dash air updated I’ll go to looking at the paint.
My thought would be to maintain the light yellow color above the belt line and paint the roof a cream color and the below the belt line either a slate grey or a terracotta color, have not settle on the below the belt color yet. I’ve been told if I buff the original paint job it would shine up pretty well. Just a thought when I get to it.

 

[Louis]

Original paint is amazingly robust. One of my GMC's has mostly original yellow paint that looks very presentable. It has had a few panels touched up but most of it is original. When I got it, from the rain gutters down, had been shined up and looked good but from the gutters up looked like it had never been touched and it had faded to almost white. After a good scrub, rubbing compound, wax, then polish it looks new again. A lot of work, but a whole lot cheaper and or less work then a new paint job. My other one was repainted in 1999 at a cost of $19000. Still looks nice but it's been stored inside

 

[Seankidd]

I’ve been looking for touch up paint for my 73 Canyonlands, the published paint codes are incorrect, as the Canyonlands was allegedly Pineapple yellow, but the book show the Canyonlands as bittersweet, which is orange. Anyone ever have luck buying touch up paint without getting some custom matching done? I realize it won’t match due to 50 years of UV, bit the cockpit roof is peeling and I want to get something on it.

 

[Christo]

The name only refers to the interior decor. In 1973 the Canyon Lands was available in white, camel, yellow, or bittersweet. The scan below is from the 1973 GMC Motor Home Selector booklet. Colors not accurate.

 

[dsmithy]

Seankidd,
For my touch up paint I went to the local body shop supply house and they were happy to walk out with their hand-held paint match machine at no charge. We found a clean patch of paint (out of direct sunlight) and buffed it a little and got good color matches with both my beige and brown. They wouldn't guarantee a match of course because they don't want to mix a custom color that they have to throw away, but the little machine produced a good color match. And of course it accomodated the years of sun and color change because we took it as-is.