Truck Engine Color?

[Guest Dodge Joe]

What color did dodge use on their truck engines? I bought a 59 dodge D-100 with a 230 engine and the owner painted it gold. When I got it home the first thing was to paint it chy blue. That my be wrong , But gold? Maybe a V-8 . I look on e-bay at diffrent dodge engines and most were blue. So what should be the color? and Don't tell me gold.

Joe

[Bob_Koch]

They generally came from the factory "aluminum" color. I know that mopar still sells a silver engine paint that is correct for this era. Probably others do as well.

[Guest Dave Claussen]

Don Bunns book shows pictures of several engines that look like they are the aluminum color. I think the blue color you are referring to is a Mopar color choice used in the later years. If my memory serves me (and as I get older it doesn't as well as it used to) that color is actually called "Mopar Blue" or something like that. A friend with a '72 'Cuda has his engine painted that color and he was trying to make everything as original as possible so I'm pretty sure that was a factory color of the later model Mopar engines. But not gold color, that was probably just an asthetic thing to make it catch the eye when the hood was open at the car shows. Just my 2 1/2 cents. Dave

[ChrisCoccia]

I have noticed on a few original looking trucks the block painted the color of the truck. The one I got from a 1950 B2d was the same green as the truck, and when I cleaned it up there was no silver paint underneath.

[Merle Coggins]

I have noticed on a few original looking trucks the block painted the color of the truck. The one I got from a 1950 B2d was the same green as the truck, and when I cleaned it up there was no silver paint underneath.

Yea, on the parts truck that I just got the engine is the same rusty color as the rest of the truck.

Sorry Chris, I couldn't resist.

Merle

[Moparmodeler]

All of the early mopars with Flatheads and the early HEMIs were painted aluminum, unfortunately the paint burned off quite fast. But during those years people found a lot of Ford blue laying around that held up quite well.