Info needed: 1950 Ford Flathead V8 Engine Paint

[cletrac (RIP)]

That looks like light stone.

[chris vickery]

Correct engine colour for this period engine should be Ford Bronze if I recall correctly. Perhaps the paint you are seeing is washed out bronze/?

[Keith Webb]

Back in the 1970s I worked at a place where one of my jobs was to disassemble flathead Ford motors. I saw that light grey colour a lot, it seemed to be the colour of choice when repainting reconditioned motors in the late 50s and 60s.

[Lynn Eades]

Keith, what about the creamy off white beigey colour that Kirk is asking about?
Is that different to the light grey you are talking about, or is that the colour you refer to?

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Keith, what about the creamy off white beigey colour that Kirk is asking about?
Is that different to the light grey you are talking about, or is that the colour you refer to?

The one I was referring to was pretty much as Jacques posted for his 1946 engine. I remember we also used to get the occasional crated GMC 270 reconditioned engines from disposals, they were painted the same colour.

[KirkF]

Thanx for all your input guys.
This is definitely a beige / ivory colour. The bronze colour was used on some of the US engines I think.

It looks like my best bet will be to try and clean up some part of the transmission and take it into a paint shop to get the colour read by a spectrophotometer.

Unfortunately that won't tell me what the name of the original colour was, and I don't know if there is an easy way to reference the numbers from a spectrophotometer back to original paint names like "light stone"


Kirk

[Harlé Sylvain]

Hello
finally, If I understand ; all the transmition was painted sand color on Ford CMP trucks, (engine, transfert, and engine) even with a kaki green body and frame?
Is that right?

Cheers
Sylvain

[Jacques Reed]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

Back in the 1970s I worked at a place where one of my jobs was to disassemble flathead Ford motors. I saw that light grey colour a lot, it seemed to be the colour of choice when repainting reconditioned motors in the late 50s and 60s.

Hi Keith,

That's interesting. Just had a look at my spare '46 block and it has grey paint over what may be the original Ford Blue faded paint. This is the second '46 engine I have that was painted grey. Both engines are truck engines with the twin row pulleys on pumps, crank, and genie and with the PCV system.

Cheers,

[Harlé Sylvain]

Hello
I dont know if it could help ,but on my FAT only the transfert gear box was sand color painted, the gear box seems to be kaki painted.

Cheers
Sylvain