Info needed: 1950 Ford Flathead V8 Engine Paint

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Keith, what about the creamy off white beigey colour that Kirk is asking about?
Is that different to the light grey you are talking about, or is that the colour you refer to?

The one I was referring to was pretty much as Jacques posted for his 1946 engine. I remember we also used to get the occasional crated GMC 270 reconditioned engines from disposals, they were painted the same colour.

[KirkF]

Thanx for all your input guys.
This is definitely a beige / ivory colour. The bronze colour was used on some of the US engines I think.

It looks like my best bet will be to try and clean up some part of the transmission and take it into a paint shop to get the colour read by a spectrophotometer.

Unfortunately that won't tell me what the name of the original colour was, and I don't know if there is an easy way to reference the numbers from a spectrophotometer back to original paint names like "light stone"


Kirk

[Harlé Sylvain]

Hello
finally, If I understand ; all the transmition was painted sand color on Ford CMP trucks, (engine, transfert, and engine) even with a kaki green body and frame?
Is that right?

Cheers
Sylvain

[KirkF]

Sylvain,

The information I am looking for pertains to 1950/1951/1952 Ford Canada Flathead engines.
These were produced after the end of CMP production, but I believe they were built to the Canadian Military Specification at the time. (Possibly due the escalating situation in Korea)

I think the Ford engines that went to North Africa during the war, may have also gotten this beige engine enamel, but I'm not sure.

The Canadian military spec was that all engines were V8, and all of them got larger oil filter assemblies. I also believe the beige colour was part of that spec.

Which is why we have no straight 6 ford trucks in Canada from that time period.

Kirk

[KirkF]

A restored 1951 engine.