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Engine paint- what would Chuck Norris do? Lol

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Drive Fast:
share your advice. What would you do?

Just before motor and transmission install, I checked one more time on engine color. Looks like my engine builder picked a medium blue rather than dark ford blue. Which is the right color? Would you take the engine apart to paint it dark blue or paint the accessories to match the medium blue?

It's a numbers matching car that could be a good candidate for concourse showing in the future.

Bob Gaines:

--- Quote from: Drive Fast on February 15, 2017, 11:07:26 PM ---share your advice. What would you do?

Just before motor and transmission install, I checked one more time on engine color. Looks like my engine builder picked a medium blue rather than dark ford blue. Which is the right color? Would you take the engine apart to paint it dark blue or paint the accessories to match the medium blue?

It's a numbers matching car that could be a good candidate for concourse showing in the future.

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I can't speak for Chuck but if it were my engine and strictly going by the choices presented and the way the paint looks in my laptop monitor, the can in the middle looks best of the three. The one on the right is too light and the one on the left doesn't look right ether 

J_Speegle:

--- Quote from: Drive Fast on February 15, 2017, 11:07:26 PM ---share your advice. What would you do?

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Since your going with the rattle can - why guess?  Instead just purchase one of the products already identified in prior threads and go with those suggestions

Looks like you went to the Dupli-Color products already

Brant:
We handle the DupliColor brand of spray paint in these cans. I gathered up quite a few original valve covers and air cleaners in order to choose the closest matching color. First, I will say that the colors slightly varied over production times.

Second, and most importantly, those caps on the cans are not an exact match to what is inside.

Anyway, in my opinion, the DE1606 is the closest to what starting being used in 1966.

ruppstang:

--- Quote from: Brant on February 16, 2017, 05:48:44 PM ---We handle the DupliColor brand of spray paint in these cans. I gathered up quite a few original valve covers and air cleaners in order to choose the closest matching color. First, I will say that the colors slightly varied over production times.

Second, and most importantly, those caps on the cans are not an exact match to what is inside.

Anyway, in my opinion, the DE1606 is the closest to what starting being used in 1966.

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+1 on the 1606

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