Art & Inspiration What color SBC?

Orange

 

I thought we were all Rodders here! Different from the "main stream"! Ford Red is very close to '56 Chevy Red. Yeh, paint the intake the same color as the block. Top it off with some vintage Edelbrocks, Offenhausers, Corvettes, or no-names like Cal Customs. It's your project, make it your way. My 2 cents.

 

Flathead Red (Ford Red)

 

I chose farm implement yellow.

 

I paint all my chevy's orange , but in a 47 Tudor I think I would paint it in the scheme of the car .

 

I voted Orange as it was the correct 64 color, I however always paint mine Ford Red.

 

Doesnt seem to be a way to make a SBC look or run good in your case. Typical.

 

Since you are puttin' an sbc in a Ford, might as well paint it orange, seems like the "popular" thing to do.

 

Didnt you know that it was easier to put a larger and heavier engine in any car?? Also, I guess Chevy orange paint is cheaper than Ford blue

 

Drofdar, I'm going to run that flattie until the'res not enough left to rebuild. Then the Chevy goes in.

 

Dang, Glendale! I would have never thought of a cake pan! I'm going to have to look at the thrift stores with new eyes.

 

What color is the car gonna be?

 

apple green!

 

Everyone is asking what color the car will be. The car is a 70,000 mile supposedly original car, and it looks it. 1947 Ford Super Deluxe Tudor.
It was factory black, but since the paint was looking a little tired, what a lot of you would call "patina", the P/O decided to paint it....BBQ black. I know..... I intend to restrip all the stainless off again, wet sand, and have the car shot in gloss black as Henry intended it.
The interior is, wait for it, the original interior in brown, wool? I'm going to have a 50's/60's style tomato red vinyl roll&pleat interior done. I will get a little tasteful striping, it already has 15" chrome reverse/baby moons on blackwall radials, and that combination has really grown on me. bumpers go under the work bench, and nerfs will take their place. Rake will come from tire size.
That's it fellas. no automatic, no M 2 front end, probably no disc brakes. I will soften up the 350 to take the place of the flathead, but if the flattie lives long enough, the OHV will just sit in the cradle in the shop.
I know you guys are tired of me starting threads on a car I don't have home yet, and I'm an a#$hole for not posting photos.
I've been working on this gentleman for two years now to get this car, and the last thing I want to do is blow a friendship by rushing this transaction.
It's 102 plus every day here, and the P/O is 75, and I'm 64 so we decided to leave it in the barn until it cools down enough to go drag it out.
The car is running, driving, legal, but needs water pumps.
I'm not too keen about doing that job, but that is the only thing the car needs to be a driver.
I'll start an official thread then, but in the meantime, I'm consumed with ideas for this car.
I was looking for some sort of floor shift, but I found out over the weekend that the P/O has completely rebuilt the column shifter, and it works like new. Don't fix what ain't broke.
I'm like a kid that has been told what he is getting for Christmas, but Christmas is a ways off yet. Hell, I wake up in the middle of the night thinking of stuff!
Thanks, Mike

 

Hey Mike,,I love your last line above...I also wake up in the middle of the night but the "Stuff" I'm thinking about only has two legs.

 

Not orange!!! Leave that to the Camaro restorers!
I'm with the guys who say pick a color you like, or goes with the theme of the car.
I went white....cool 60's show car look...I think.

 

I agree with Marshall Metal shaping, use a color that goes with the car color. My choice for mine was black because it goes with the top and running boards, I even painted the new offy intake black. It's whatever you like, I've had people say they love it and I've had some say why did you paint a SBC black.

 

Bob, I lost Crissie back in November after 46 years. The sprint car and the hot rods are my sanity right now. I'm hoping there will be a time when I get back to looking at the "scenery". It gets a little easier every day.

 

Mike,
As much as I dislike an orange engine ( for whatever reason) I voted chevy orange, most of the time when you opened the hood of a chevy powered car when I was a kid the engine if it was new enough to have been orange was orange. I even painted an older one orange for a fella before I stuffed it in because he said all hot rods have orange engines.

 

ORANGE......put a sbf in it.
B.B.

 

I painted one yellow once, thought I would never hear the end of it.....Chevy (not GM) Orange from then on

Chevy also painted a lot of them blue in the 70s-80s

 

Actually one could paint it hugger orange like the General Lee.

 

a lot of the steel blocks in sprint cars are black .

 

"Chevy also painted a lot of them blue in the 70s-80s"
Corporate Blue is too late for the time period I'm after. Besides, every time I look at a blue small block, it just looks wrong.
If you check out the poll, it looks like Chevy Orange is it.
Benno, I called it GM orange after years of working Jack's Auto Supply, and our engine paint called it GM Orange. Just habit, I guess.
BTW, one of the prettiest Harleys I ever built was painted Chevy engine Orange. Everyone loved it.

 

The car sounds like it doesn't need another belly button engine,just hop up the flathead, it would look so much cooler than every other one out there with a sbc stuck in it.

 

Besides, who wants to go fast and have all that reliability anyways.

 

I think you should paint the engine what ever the hell color you want and not worry what anybody else thinks.

 

56Don, I intend to run the flathead until it won't go any farther. But, if it has to come out, for a rebuild, or whatever, I can't see spending the money on it when I have a fresh OHV on the cradle. I would have the power necessary to run A/C, important in North Texas, and keep up with traffic.
C10CST, I usually do, and really don't care, this time I'm shooting for a specific period in time, and even though I was there, I don't remember.
I'm leaning toward Orange as that is what it would have been from the factory, and most engines didn't get painted again at that time. At least that's how I remember it.

 

Mine was Chevy orange for about 34 years, so last time I went with red. Even though it looks kind of orange in this picture, it really is red.

 

I never owned an orange scoot, well let me clarify, I never owned a completely orange scoot. I did paint my pan Harley racing colors one year, I really likes it that way.

I had a real close friend when I was young (actually we are still pretty good friends just don't see each other often). His bike was actual Harley orange, I asked him once whay he chose that color. He said " Willy G gave me 5 gallons, ya wanna paint you scoot?" I am still pissed all he ever gave me was spark plugs and a couple of baffles.

I normally paint my blocks black and along with my heads if they are iron. But in the '60s unless you were building a show car orange was a pretty poplular color around where I was at.