Flathead Colour

[martyn]

most of the v8s ive seen are that great colour rust red lol,
ive seen 2 in dark green think they are recon old stock, and 1 ford grey, and 3 in duck egg green, a friend has a windsor that has only got 16 miles on it came out of pounds yard in the 50s and still has all its packing tape on the engine air filter and inlets will ask what colour that is?

[horsa]

Guess we need to be careful when generalizing colors. Australian carriers seem to have a different shade of rust on their engines when compared with those in North America. Likely they won't match your rust variation in the UK either.

A friend of mine here in the USA will be taking possession of a 1943 dated T-16 with a 46XX serial number later this summer. It never went overseas and so never got any British modifications applied to it. The engine is dead but original to the vehicle so I will post what we find on it in a month or two. I haven't seen it in person yet but the vehicle is still in all original paint so likely the engine is also. It won't tell us anything conclusive but will at least be another thing we can use to see if there is a trend for the T-16s.

[RichardT10829]

I am just going to throw this out there, but what about Rally X red :-


it is a proven fact that red adds BHP to any engine this one being my last engine build a full custom 1380cc A series with T3 turbo charger pushing 20psi boost and producing 225 bhp at the crank.... kinda makes ya wonder what they did wrong with the large CC V8's we have in our carriers




Hope i have tickled some of you

Richie

[ajmac]

Did anyone get anywhere with ID of wartime colours? I want to get it right and will be painting my gearbox the correct colour for US production 1943. The box already has a little original paint and looks like a deep blue/green, almost like a hammerite metalic green.... probably post war. Hopefully I can find some original color under the dizzy on the engine.... however I would have thought that both the pre / early war Ford green and late war / post war Ford dark blue would be available 'off the shelf', are they?

[RichardT10829]

AJ ring martyn up he spent some time on this subjetc, now that he has a queue of folk wanting engines built by him he has had to get the correct schemes etc. worth a call he is only around the corner from you buddy.

[Lynn Eades]

Go to Vanpeltsales.com site, and the colours are there under the general specifications. I dont know how to post a site.

[RichardT10829]

http://www.vanpeltsales.com/