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arc40s 08-28-2018 09:08 AM

engine colors
 

Please advise what the correct engine block colors for
37-41 Ford
42 Ford
46-48 Ford
49-53 Ford
thanks

corvette8n 08-28-2018 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by arc40s (Post 1668353)
Please advise what the correct engine block colors for
37-41 Ford GREEN
42 Ford BLUE ?
46-48 Ford BLUE
49-53 Ford BRONZE
thanks

This is for cars trucks are different.
I think Van Pelts website also has that info

dakotafarmboy 08-28-2018 01:44 PM

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I rebuilt a 53 V8 in a Customline that I assumed had the original paint on it. It looked orange but believe it is called "Ford Red". The paint all came off at the machine shop and then repainted it with Bill Hirsch's rattlecans. Hirsch calls it Ford Orange but I think most still call it Ford Red. I can't comment on any other years or colors.

dakotafarmboy 08-28-2018 02:05 PM

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I looked at the Bill Hirsch site and he sells this Ford Orange color for both 52 and 53 motors. I have not researched this.

tubman 08-28-2018 02:12 PM

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Also, I believe that early '49 engines are blue.

TonyM 08-28-2018 02:53 PM

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1952 and 1953 engines correct engine color is orange.

mfirth 08-28-2018 03:18 PM

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Bill Hirsch paint has many paint colors and are very helpful, even sent me so color samples!

mfirth 08-28-2018 03:19 PM

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Sorry so should be some. Senior moment!

34pickup 08-28-2018 03:32 PM

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And here I was thinking the factory color for flatheads was rust..

Ken/Alabama 08-28-2018 03:45 PM

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I had a bone stock original 50 pickup and the engine was red . At least it was where there was still paint on it.

42guy 08-28-2018 05:17 PM

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The 1942 was green at least mine is. Maybe because of the war they had left over 41 engines. The few 42's I have seen, they have been green. You don't see that many.

Mike in Mass 08-28-2018 10:21 PM

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my 42 Merc motor in my picup is darker blue than the normal Ford Blue. 29A

marko39 08-29-2018 07:19 AM

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51 ford engines should be bronze.

Kube 08-29-2018 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by 42guy (Post 1668569)
The 1942 was green at least mine is. Maybe because of the war they had left over 41 engines. The few 42's I have seen, they have been green. You don't see that many.

Correct you are.

rotorwrench 08-29-2018 09:24 AM

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Ford used that dark green on all 221 engines with a possible exception to the 41A replacement blocks beginning in late 1944. The early 1939 Mercury and truck 239 engines were still the dark green but had the 99 stamped to ID them at Ford plants in the USA. Canadian ones had a 99 casting number on them at least in the early 99A production. They later changed all the 239 engines to the dark blue color to more easily ID them during the vehicle assembly process. The blue stuck around till the end of the 59 era and on into the 8BA for a little while.

Ford changed colors in the 8BA era. 239 engines started out red in 1948 for truck production and all trucks remained that way till 1952 when they went green. The Ford cars started out dark blue in 1949 then changed to bronze in late 49 thru 51. They went tangerine or red in 52 & 53. Mercury 255 engine were green from 1949 thru 51 at least. I'm not as sure on the 52 & 53 Mercury cars Ford seemingly went to green on a lot of engines in those last two years of the flathead.

peewee2you 08-31-2018 11:10 PM

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I have a 47 Ford, a week after I bought it I had the Flathead rebuilt when it came back from the builder it was painted green, and I got used to it, so when I cleaned up the engine compartment I decided to refresh the green color over going back to Ford Blue, it just looked a lot cleaner to me.
http://pic20.picturetrail.com:80/VOL.../400166722.jpg
http://pic20.picturetrail.com:80/VOL.../403963253.jpg

Tinker 08-31-2018 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by rotorwrench (Post 1668800)
Ford used that dark green on all 221 engines with a possible exception to the 41A replacement blocks beginning in late 1944. The early 1939 Mercury and truck 239 engines were still the dark green but had the 99 stamped to ID them at Ford plants in the USA. Canadian ones had a 99 casting number on them at least in the early 99A production. They later changed all the 239 engines to the dark blue color to more easily ID them during the vehicle assembly process. The blue stuck around till the end of the 59 era and on into the 8BA for a little while.

Ford changed colors in the 8BA era. 239 engines started out red in 1948 for truck production and all trucks remained that way till 1952 when they went green. The Ford cars started out dark blue in 1949 then changed to bronze in late 49 thru 51. They went tangerine or red in 52 & 53. Mercury 255 engine were green from 1949 thru 51 at least. I'm not as sure on the 52 & 53 Mercury cars Ford seemingly went to green on a lot of engines in those last two years of the flathead.


This seems about as right as it gets. But i thought vanpelts had a link as well. might be more a yr to yr search.
http://www.vanpeltsales.com/FH_web/f...0to125late.htm
vanpelt addressing the yr it changed. reading not definitive.

Another reference. http://www.telusplanet.net/public/bb...olour_list.htm

Bronze was a nice choice of color, too me anyway.

More random stuff in no order :)... The true early green color is debatable. Bill Hirsch has great paint. But I think Roys paint is closer as far as the early green goes. Blue picked up into the yblocks but was a light blue.

It seems like something that could be more available easily from research and documentation???. With obvious exceptions for yr overlap.

Tinker 08-31-2018 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by 34pickup (Post 1668517)
And here I was thinking the factory color for flatheads was rust..


A color I don't mind.

rotorwrench 09-01-2018 08:12 AM

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My pop bought an old 49 F1 at a farm sale when I was a kid. The previous owner liked the bronze color so much that he painted the whole truck that color. It stood out so that everyone in the county knew who owned it. Sometimes that's a good thing and sometimes not.

tubman 09-01-2018 09:53 AM

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I had a '79 Ranchero Squire that was a unique, very recognizable vehicle. When I put it up for sale, the "Town Drunk" just had to have it. It did not end well for him.


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