Was Toyota first to use "primer gray" paint?

Was Toyota the first manufacturer to use the "primer gray" color on their vehicles? Way back when, they painted the Scion "Cement."

Now that gray color is so popular that almost every manufacturer has their version of it.

Anyone know if Toyota started it all? If not, then who was first?

 

This is gonna be interesting.

 

Haha. Hope so.

 

Hmm?

too much to google. I’ll see if someone does the leg work

 

I remember seeing it on Volvo v70s, and I think the Volvo “Amazon” grey color goes back to the 60s.

 

Yamaha did it in the U.S. for the m.y. 2017 FZ10

 

I first saw it on the Audi TT back late 90’s or maybe 2000.

 

Audi had Nardo Grey in the early 2000’s

 

Man, I really liked how the grey Scion tC looked. Wouldn't mind one as a daily driver TBH.

 

Pretty sure buick was in the 80s. Or they all just lost their paint and wore their primer

 

Every mid-80s to early-90s Buick I ever saw had two things (and my family drove a ton of them through the years as I was growing up): shitty, thin, sun-damaged paint and a 3.8L engine that just would. not. die.

 

Porsche had it as far back as 1965. It was called Dolphin grey then.

 

1925 Lincoln Model L

 

My first car was a 1984 Grandma Rquis (in 2004). It was primer gray, except for the front clip that was replaced with a cream-colored one when it hit a deer. It looked like this...

 

In RI
We call that “State Police Gray”!!!

 

1907 Rolls Royce

 

Interesting, guess it's not really a new thing. I don't know much about cars older than myself so I had no clue about Porsche's dolphin grey.

 

L21 Pearl Gray 1950.

 

Most production cars by the end of the first decade of the 1900s offered a selection of at least a few colors, such as red, green, gray, and black, mostly in the darker shades.

 

1910 Harley Davidson 500cc/3 HP Silent Grey Fellow