The Ford Barn

biggieou · 03-24-2017, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by biggieou

Is that color close? I like to use the POR 15 enamel and this to me loss to be the closest shade.

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Is that Buick color close? I'd like to place my order.

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Ian in Mississauga · 03-24-2017, 06:53 PM

Synchro 99, I have seen a lot of model A engines here and all but 1 were some variation of engine green. The exception was grey. The owner maintained that was the correct colour and who was going to argue, he judged at MARC and MAFCA meets.

mshmodela · 03-25-2017, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by chrisabes

Am about to install an overhauled engine but need to paint it first. I am aware that Ford Engine Green is the correct colour but am unable to find an equivalent colour in Australia. We are unable to import paint due to flight safety restrictions.
Any equivalent colour suggestions available in Australia would be appreciated.

Maybe someone could mail you a dried sample so you could try to get the color matched...

Ted Duke · 03-25-2017, 08:45 AM

I have looked at a lot of Model A Ford engines in the last 50 years and haven't seen two that were the same. One of them was correct, I guess! Paint that is!

Mike V. Florida · 03-25-2017, 10:16 PM

"The color of Ford engine green was
neither bright nor dark. It did, however, vary in shade
from engine to engine. All parts painted Ford engine
green should match."

updraught · 03-26-2017, 01:49 AM

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Note the colour on this T block.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Original-...-/262542301710
That is something like I would say the Canadian colour is from my memory ...
Just say'n.

Tom Wesenberg · 03-26-2017, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by updraught

Note the colour on this T block.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Original-...-/262542301710
That is something like I would say the Canadian colour is from my memory ...
Just say'n.

I only see rust on a bare block.

Weren't all T engines black?

updraught · 03-26-2017, 07:10 AM

Like a blue/grey colour.

ursus · 03-26-2017, 01:12 PM

Then there is that old story, perhaps apocryphal, that Ford Engine Green varied slightly from day to day because the painters would dump the small lots of leftover body paint into the engine paint tank at the end of a shift if there were no work orders for that particular color for the next shift. Ford never threw anything away if it could be extended for some other use.

03-24-2017, 06:53 PM	#42
Ian in Mississauga Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 136	Re: engine paint Synchro 99, I have seen a lot of model A engines here and all but 1 were some variation of engine green. The exception was grey. The owner maintained that was the correct colour and who was going to argue, he judged at MARC and MAFCA meets.

03-25-2017, 08:45 AM	#44
Ted Duke Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Fairfield, Virginia Posts: 615	Re: engine paint I have looked at a lot of Model A Ford engines in the last 50 years and haven't seen two that were the same. One of them was correct, I guess! Paint that is!

03-25-2017, 10:16 PM	#45
Mike V. Florida Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: South Florida Posts: 14,054	Re: engine paint "The color of Ford engine green was neither bright nor dark. It did, however, vary in shade from engine to engine. All parts painted Ford engine green should match." __________________ What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. - Henry Ford II

03-26-2017, 01:49 AM	#46
updraught Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Australia Posts: 1,971	Re: engine paint Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) Note the colour on this T block. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Original-...-/262542301710 That is something like I would say the Canadian colour is from my memory ... Just say'n.

03-26-2017, 07:10 AM	#48
updraught Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Australia Posts: 1,971	Re: engine paint Like a blue/grey colour.

03-26-2017, 01:12 PM	#49
ursus Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Oregon Posts: 1,375	Re: engine paint Then there is that old story, perhaps apocryphal, that Ford Engine Green varied slightly from day to day because the painters would dump the small lots of leftover body paint into the engine paint tank at the end of a shift if there were no work orders for that particular color for the next shift. Ford never threw anything away if it could be extended for some other use.