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Title: Headlight Bucket Dark brown color?
Post by: 1955CJ-5 on September 26, 2013, 05:03:03 PM: The buckets off my 3a are dark brown. Both the outside shell and the inside bulb holder are this deep brown. i found a thread over at the 2a site but no one found a color match that i know of...

http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/late-2a-headlight-bucket-color-choc-brown_topic20843.html

Anyone else have buckets that are this color?ï¿½ anyone find a paint match?

I realize this is not a great picture....

(http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/s519/green55jeep/51%20cj-3a%20rust%20pictures/th_headlightbucket_zps0711c144.jpg) (http://s1055.photobucket.com/user/green55jeep/media/51%20cj-3a%20rust%20pictures/headlightbucket_zps0711c144.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Headlight Bucket Dark brown color?
Post by: garage gnome on September 26, 2013, 08:10:28 PM: The ones on my 49 are the original brown and they look like rustoleum brown. There are some good pictures of them in my project thread about it.
Title: Re: Headlight Bucket Dark brown color?
Post by: 1955CJ-5 on September 26, 2013, 08:17:19 PM: Thanks Nate,

I found the thread but the pictures are all gone..

http://www.cj3apage.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1344467620

But I have good examples of the color...just need to find paint....
Title: Re: Headlight Bucket Dark brown color?
Post by: garage gnome on September 27, 2013, 09:48:56 AM: That is strange to say the least. Sometimes I have photobucket. This one is 100% original paint.

(http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx125/willyscjmj/1949%203A/ac0bb1bb.jpg) (http://s748.photobucket.com/user/willyscjmj/media/1949%203A/ac0bb1bb.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Headlight Bucket Dark brown color?
Post by: 1955CJ-5 on September 27, 2013, 10:24:22 AM: Interesting......though comparing colors from two digital pictures isn't very accurate, your buckets appear to be a lighter shade....mine are so dark as to appear almost a steel gray...of course the buckets themselves don't have a lot of paint left on them, but the inner bulb holders are in near perfect condition...
Title: Re: Headlight Bucket Dark brown color?
Post by: athawk11 on September 27, 2013, 11:09:50 AM: Randy,
The most recent conversation about the brown headlight buckets was over at the 2A. Del Clear did some extensive work at trying to track it down. I remember reading about it, but I can't find that original post. It doesn't read that he was overly successful.

http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/cochran-brown-rattle-can_topic27739_post247996.html?KW=cochran#247996

Sounds like the brown buckets were unusual. I'm with you. Since you have them, I would try to match them if I could.

Tim
Title: Re: Headlight Bucket Dark brown color?
Post by: 1955CJ-5 on September 27, 2013, 11:41:39 AM: Thanks for the link Tim.

After that original link dried up I though they had just given up..

Sounds like the best solution is to take the buckets in and have them match the color.....but that SEM paint looked pretty good....depends on the $$ involved....
Title: Re: Headlight Bucket Dark brown color?
Post by: 1955CJ-5 on October 26, 2013, 07:52:04 PM: What I finally did was to find some Dark Walnut Brown rustoleum, painted the buckets, and then clear coated with a matte clear coat.

The picture shows the unpainted inner bulb holder along with the painted bucket...