Definition of "paintless"
Without paint; unpainted, or whose paint has worn off.
Quotations
In 1919, demobilisation specials from Purfleet, Essex, to the North, usually made up of nondescript, almost paintless or grey stock which had seen long wartime service, chalked with slogans, were worked through by way of Bromley and the North London line […] .
1950 April, R. A. H. Weight, “They Passed by My Window”, in Railway Magazine, pages 258-259