1955 chevrolet 235 engine color?

What color should a Chevrolet 235 in a 1955 truck orininally be. I cant seem to find any info. Ive seen all gray, all gray with a black head, orange, red, blue. Any ideas? Thanks!

 

Should be a bluish gray, or a grayish blue. I think. I took out, dis***embled, and cleaned an original engine from a 57 truck, and I really could not determine exactly what color it was.

But for sure it's all one color

 

I thought it was Blue Flame blue. That ugly blue/grey squirrel is refering to.

 

The one that was transplanted into my '50 was light blue. More sky blue than grey

 

Funny, a buddy is here and doing a 55 Cameo with a 265. He researched it and said the V-8 was grey(weird) and the sixes could be blue or even yellow depending on the truck model.

 

Truck engines were painted different than car engines.

 

More than you ever wanted to know is here -

http://www.1954advance-design.com/Web%20images/PPIP/PPIP-1912-1966-EngineColors.html

 

CleanRed,
this web site has all the info you need. www.cs.siena.edu/~lederman/tr...VCCAcolor.html
The link isn't working just go to www.cs.siena.edu and in the search box type in chevy engine colors and chose the cs.siena link. Hope it works because it has all the colors listed. Colors I had no idea Chevy used.

 

yeah i remember it same as squirrel...kinda like a blue grey like almost machine shop machine paint color.

 

kinda close to this

 

This is the '55 Chevy truck 235 that was in my '50. I think it was the original paint.

 

This is a 3600 3/4 ton truck. I will check out the links. Thanks guys!

According to the list on the links the motor will be either green or gray. Depends on if its a Thrift master, or a Load master. I am ***uming Load master since it had the heavy free float axle rear end.