Anyone painted their SUV like a locomotive

THAT should really enhance resale value!

I have seen vans painted up in SP Daylight colors and N&W J Class colors, but never an SUV.

Oh yeah 

I am giving thought to painting my house and living room furniture in the SP Daylight theme. Ok, just kidding.

The foam is getting deep!

When I read the thread name I thought sure I wouldI open it and see a picture of the SUV loco painted vehicle. Pretty crazy idea. Im sure someone somewhere has tried this, most likely on a beater van I'm guessing. 

Years ago someone in my area painted his pickup the same colors as a Blue Comet passenger car. It could have been a coincidence but I seem to remember seeing Blue Comet on his bug shield or license plate. I don't think I'd do something similar. Railfans are definitely a minority and it would just look wierd to most people and not please me enough to bother.

There used to be (might still be haven't seen it for a while) a person where I work that had a truck (I think it was a pickup with a enclosed back, probably not an SUV) with Pennsy GG-1 stripes down the sides.  I'm not sure if the vehicle color was really tuscan, might have just been done on a red body.  Still caught my attention!

-Dave

What's a matter Jim,you wouldn't want a vehicle painted in the NS colors ? Oh wait you would only have to buy a black one,my bad

Thought about it.  Soo Line, yeah!

John

How about a RV?

One of my favorite paint schemes!

There's a local that has a mini van painted in SP Daylight, and a 2nd mini van painted in SSW Bicentennial.

http://www.trainorders.com/dis...on/read.php?1,166111

http://foamer.railfan.net/urvs.html

Not sure what it costs but you can have your vehicle wrapped with vinyl and when you go to sell it , just remove it. I did a search and came up with this example.

http://www.adsonwheels.com/veh...ics/vehicle-graphics

franktrain

Hmmmm...I've started researching this - and thanks for the Foamers link!  As Hot Water mentioned, paint is permanent and would devalue the vehicle.  However, a vinyl wrap is doable - per the info provided, it protects the factory paint and is removable.  I did notice that my auto dealer wraps their courtesy cars (not locomotive style, but with dealer logos, names, number, etc).

http://www.wrapitupvehiclewraps.com

One of the more elaborate graphic wraps I've seen would be the 55' trailer used to haul a quarter scale operational model of N&W 611, affectionately known as "Baby J".

Designed & built by Don Guill of suburban Cincinnati, this custom rig gets considerable attention whenever it's on the road or on display. In the summer of 2010, Don brought his "Baby J" to Roanoke for 611's 60th Birthday Party where most of these

photos & the short video were captured.

Additional information about Don & his quarter scale N&W 611 can be found HERE.

How about Merle Haggard's tour bus?

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I saw an earlier version of this bus heading eastward onI-40 in the California desert around 1990, and that one had a blue Indian head.

A member of the 4449 crew, Ed Bohm, has a Peterbuilt done in the Daylight scheme.

I have seen two, done like locomotives. A honda Rigeline with cap, in tuscan red with gold five stripe GG1 scheme and emblems. And a two tone grey dodge pickup with stripes for NYC also with correct emblems. Both looked professionally done.  I think a good match would be a ford Aerostar minivan as a Amtrak locomotive. I'm sure there are others.   

Collin,

I only paint my trains to look like cars.

After searching the internet for days to find a picture.... i found the ridgeline you guys were talking about...i remember seeing it before somewhere couldnt find the picture... i just had to type in the right words in google.... 

And then i found this....

found it bigger

found the truck in question aswell the "spirt of the conrail 7"

As the "old man" on Pawn Stars would say, "Oh my God!" 

Curt

So what were the google search words used? I too am having a tough time finding photos

If I had a black car, I would totally slap a Penn Central logo on it somewhere 

If anyone spots a Hyundai Santa Fe painted in the warbonnet scheme please take a picture!

That's cool.  I hope you do it.  For some time I have wanted to finish my solo canoe in a P40 Warhawk scheme.  Camo paint with a big Flying Tigers shark's mouth logo in the bow, and maybe their star on the stern.  I need to look into some decals some day and get that done.  Of course, an SUV is a far bigger commitment.  Go for it!

google image search "PRR Honda Ridgeline" on page 3 the southern pacific wagon pops up, when you click on it it takes you to the page where the PRR ridgeline is.... there was also this, which someone photoshopped, they did a goodjob at it, looks allmost real

Check out this link - http://www.traininstallations.com/index.html - the van has a working bell and steam whistle that signals its arrival.

Bruce

I was hoping that would show up.  He carries a live steam Daylight in the back of that sometimes.  That was the one time I saw it anyhow.  The car is really sharp when you see it in person.

I Like it!

I don't know about the other one but the Warbonnet was a promotional vehicle made for Santa Fe.  The current owner found it setting in someones yard badly in need of restoration.  They talked and the former owner's wife wanted it out of the yard pretty bad so he got a deal on it.  It has all new Dodge 1 ton truck running gear under it now.  I can't find it but there used to be a TV segment about it on youtube.