1987 Fleetwood Touch Up Paint (7 OEM Colors)

The 1987 Fleetwood Vibe

Welcome to 1987, kid. Grab a cassette of The Joshua Tree and climb into the captain's chair of a Fleetwood Southwind. This was the year Fleetwood decided that "Neutral" was a lifestyle, not just a gear. We've got 7 survivors in our database from this era, and they tell a story of a world obsessed with muted elegance. Whether you're rocking the Light Adobe-which is basically the official color of a Mojave sunset-or the Heather Firemist, these colors were designed to look expensive while you were parked at a roadside diner. It was a time of Light Teal accents and Nassau Blue striping, back when a motorhome was essentially a luxury condo that you could accidentally back into a pine tree.

Paint Health Check

We are deep in The Peeling Era now. By 1987, the industry was fully committed to the Basecoat/Clearcoat system, but the chemistry hadn't quite caught up to the marketing. If your Fleetwood has been sitting in the sun, you're likely dealing with Delamination. That's the fancy word for when the clear coat decides it's had enough and starts flaking off like a bad sunburn. It starts as a tiny white edge around a rock chip, and before you know it, the wind is catching it on the highway and peeling the finish off in sheets. If you see "silver scales" or a chalky haze on the Smoke Gray Metallic roofline, your clear coat is officially waving the white flag.

Restoration Tip

Listen close: with this 1987 solvent-slashed chemistry, your greatest enemy is air getting under the "skin." Seal chips immediately before the clear lifts. If you spot a nick in that Light Beige Metallic, don't wait for the weekend. Dab it with a color-matched pen or a brush immediately. Once the clear coat loses its bond at the edge of a chip, moisture and oxygen act like a wedge, and once that delamination starts, there's no "polishing" it back to life. Keep a bottle of touch-up in the glovebox-it's the only thing standing between a quick fix and a $10,000 respray.