The German Mercedes benz's in World War Two were supposedly primered with a different color than the red oxide primer . Anybody know what that color is ?

German auto industries in the 1930's often used a black primer and enamel coat on car and truck frames - and this may also have been used on the stamped and formed sheet-metal of car bodies. So, if you are thinking of an MB car or truck during the war... probably black frame members and maybe black under a shallow chip or scrape on the body.

Of course you could consider that a car or truck built and put into service earlier in the war would have been painted the standard dunkelgrau - and later repainted as dunkelgelb came into regulation use from Mar 1943. So a later-war survivor could exhibit chipping and scrapes to reveal earlier dunkelgrau base-coats.

Bob

Early in the war . The MB radio car . Did the Mercedes Benz , the civilian cars get the same primer ?

I know that Daimler used Zinc Oxide primer, which was the classic light grey primer color.

. That's what some people had said to me . They though it was a gray color . I think I will use the gray primer . Thanks for the replies , appreciate that .