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Where can I buy spray cans of the correct color for my 1951 8BA?

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The paint is for my 8BA engine, not for my car.

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hirschauto.com………..Mark

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KBS motor coater is the best I have ever used but I didn't find your color on the website.

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They used that bronze color in 1950 & 1951 but only for cars. Pickups were red and then green in late production. The green was about the same as the Mercury cars. Bill Hirsch Auto should still be around. I heard his family took it over after he passed. In any case, Dennis Carpenter and others should have it.

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I have used Hirsch a few times and brushed it on. No brush marks, and lasts forever.

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...and it blended perfectly with what I believe to be the original paint.

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Hi Joe, you didn't say what paint you used.

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https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...4&d=1778110997

https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...5&d=1778111011

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I still don't know what paint he used.

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I still don't know what paint you used.

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Dennis Carpenter.
dennis-carpenter.com
Engine paint Bronze
49-51 car. Part# 8A-6000 $58.95 In Stock 1Quart

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Thanks.

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I thought 51 Pickups with the 8BA had red engines. Sorry, I don't know the official paint shade or code.

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Attachment 585546 I have a 52 2dr and my engine is either orange or red I can't tell. I am partially color blind.

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Looks orange to me which is correct for 52. Not sure it is "Ford Orange" in the pic. Chrysler and Ch - - - used an orange also.

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1952 was the change over to the EAB engines which had the rotator valves carried over from 1951. The EAB had a little bit higher compression heads and a cam change to increase performance with the changes in the fuel available. The competitions higher performance overhead valve V8s were affecting the numbers plus more folks wanted the automatic transmissions. Ford knew that the flathead V8s days were numbered but it took them a while to design their own overhead valve V8 for lower cost production. The 215 Ford 6 and the Lincoln 317 were out already but the Ford and Mercury V8s were still in development.

Ford always used color to identify V8 engine differences in the 8BA era that began in 1948 with the introduction of the bonus built trucks.

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Thanks Pete.....

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I think they referred to the 1952/53 car V8 engine as tangerine. The 52/53 commercials and trucks went from red of earlier engines to green with the green being the same as the 49 through 53 255 Mercury. Some mention the 52/53 Mercury 255 as being either green or tangerine but I don't know. The 255 always had a different color than the 239 engines. That's why they had the different colors was to tell which engine was on the line ready to go in a car. If they finally started looking at the cylinder heads for EAB or EAC then they could have finally changed the ID of engines that way but I don't know. Ford had all kinds of different colors for the different Y-blocks from 1954 up through 64. The advent of MEL and FE engines really started confusing things but it was obvious that they were different designs.

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Would anyone know the paint color code for the tangerine??

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You might find them in the old chip charts in TCP Global's auto color library but I don't know if it would help much. Too many changes in the world of automotive paint in the last 75 years. I'd check with all the relevant reproduction parts sources.