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Ive been wanting to do some ghosted paint work to my truck, keeping with some of the original theme of these trucks, and most of the crew cabs (which I have) being government issued of some sort most were tagged up with painted emblems and numbers.

Any pictures would help, I dont know the direction I am after yet but kinda have some ideas floating around in my head. Most of the pictures I have found are grainy and or people sanded threw their paint to find faint hints of what once was.

Fire station, forestry, army, navy, basically any tagged up truck.

So far my thoughts have been maybe the star on the drivers door, and maybe some number placement of issue.

Thanks

No pictures of my own, but I've seen a few Navy trucks that had a simple "US Navy" stenciled on the door like this A100.

We had a couple beaters at the base in Spain. Dove grey with US Navy in dark blue or olive drab with SeaBee emblems in yellow. Didn't grab any pics since at the time I was strictly a Pilot House (48-53 Dodge) or pre-78 F100 enthusiast.

Not on a Swepty, but, here is how our equipment was stenciled. Hope it helps...

Maybe try looking up Vietnam era photos... or maybe something like that.

The A100 looks nice! I can't make out the Nomenclature under the U.S. Navy, and there are also some text/wording under that on the door that I can't make out.

Air Force trucks were nearly always military blue, but some were OD green or white, as well.

On the doors, and also the front and rear license plates, would be in this format:

In yellow lettering (or black, for an OD green truck), it would say

U. S. AIR FORCE
67-3449
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

The number would reflect the year of the acquisition contract, not necessarily the build year of the vehicle! That info would be centered under US AIR FORCE and be the same size. The FOUO verbage font would be about half the size of the rest.

USN and USA markings are different. There are NO US Marine markings, as they fall under the Navy.

Actually the Corp does use vehicle stencils... here's how, based on a layer by layer sanding of an ex-military being returned to military configuration...http://www.garbee.net/~cabell/usmcmarkings.htm Saw service in both Korea and Vietnam "conflicts" if I read his intro correctly.

Here's a USMC trailer...

I stand corrected, cool!

I only knew about USMC stencils because our SeaBee Humvees were made of all branches' wrecked parts junkers. If you've never seen E1 equipment operators in action... in under 2 hours we had a Humvee flip end over end and a 15 ton truck broken in half on a training exercise... And Humvees are supposed to be incapable of that particular maneuver... That's the same weekend 2 of us MELTED the barrels on a couple M16A2-E3s... fully automatic versions, none of that silly (sissy) 3 round burst stuff.

I did my 65 truck up, here is the front, can you guess what it means, lol

Cageman wrote:I did my 65 truck up, here is the front, can you guess what it means, lol

Your B'Day? Dec. 25, 1965?

The 65D1225 just spells out the year, 1/2 ton pickup with a 225 slant engine. The other Jim

JimE wrote:The 65D1225 just spells out the year, 1/2 ton pickup with a 225 slant engine. The other Jim

You forgot 2wd...

Yup, ha ha. I does say 200 on the grille, but its a half ton shorty. I have another one that has military nomenclature on the door, but I forget what it all says.
I made up all the stickers for the doors, just havnt put them on yet. Something about for official use only.

your military Dodge is missing its grill guard support rod that goes thru the core support !!!

Here ya go:

Omg love this thread i am thinking of doing this myself... although i was not in the service my dad and bro were also a few uncles. My truck was used on a military air strip as a mechanics truck ( so im told ) but under the hood is military green and has the hood hinges that flip all the way up. Also there is a long box along the inside over the wheel well that has somesort of craddle for a plane prop? I might just use magnets so i can have a star on the door or not?

I can't believe there aren't more Sweptlines painted like Military trucks... I thought it would be cool.

Too many resto fanatics with civilian model trucks. Most of the military trucks that survive to hit the auctions end up on farms or construction/mining sites. Hard core work trucks tend to have a short lifespan. How many people 10 years ago were buying and saving Sweptlines? Not many... When I bought mine in 2004 there were over 50 of them in western WA junkyards within 20 miles of my house. Mine was a running driving V8 long bed and was under a grand, including a windshield swap.

WD wrote:How many people 10 years ago were buying and saving Sweptlines? Not many... When I bought mine in 2004 there were over 50 of them in western WA junkyards within 20 miles of my house.

Different regions will, of course, yield different answers. By as soon as 1980 in my
region, there wasn't much left of a '71 pick up truck, much less any older, due to the road salt. The
"quarter do-it yourself" car wash businesses were just starting to come about back in '80. Prior to
this, all the sh*t from the road stuck to the undercarriages of vehicles the entire Winter
in a lot of cases. If you got 9 or 10 years out of a vehicle before it collapsed into a rust
heap, you were doing pretty well. The only good thing was that there were a lot of low mile engine
and drive train parts in the local boneyards.
John

http://www.militarystencils.com/default.aspx might get some ideas here?