Hello gentlemen I’ve the tag below on my shoebox and I don’t seem to find - or maybe understand - what is correct color for the year. The seems to be painted in a light blue color (I have added a picture from the interior which seems to be more preserved). The remaining digits I could find some more information but the color remains a mistery. Can somebody please help out? Thanks in advance.
You need to look at places like under interior panels, under trim or rubber.... places like that. That is overspray on the dash. All 1951 dashes were a matte grey from the factory regardless of the body color. You can see overspray on the firewall tag. Older paint codes are difficult to cross reference before 1953. I would look for body paint in hidden areas. That blue color is obviously a repaint so I would not trust it.
Canadian car possibly? What’s the outside look like? The tag looks like all the other ones I have on my cars
Hello gentlemen! Thanks a lot for the replies. Tomorrow or Wednesday I’m gonna take a look under the dash and let you know if there is anything different. The car has been stopped under the weather for a couple of years and it will need a careful wash as the door windows seals are gone. I’m gonna install a y block 292 coupled with a F-100 “clark type” 240F from our F-100 V8 - kind of rare and expensive to find the configuration that was used with Mavericks and Dodges down here. Yes, the speedo is in km/h maybe it was an export version? I’m trying to keep the original stuff as much as possible as the car is quite complete, and would appreciate to have it done back on its original color. Cheers from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
What about Mexico, Central America or South America Edit, now I see you are from Brazil so there you have it! Sweet ride and love the speedometer!!
Sorry I didn’t manage to to the car parking as weather was a bit bad and lots of things to solve I understand these matte gray would be center part of the dash (which has the gauges) and then the rest painted? I was looking at the ad’s from back in the day and they show a painted dash. Or I shouldn’t base myself on the ad’s as they might have some freedom on the drawings? Online also I could find the 51 convertible, supposedly Alpine Blue, but with a brown interior. Color is being harder than it looked LOL. Thanks to everyone for all replies. Greetings from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
^^^Alpine Blue For American cars...... The entire dash was a matte grey with the insert panel being a matte silver. Really the insert panel is perforated bright metal.
Superb ride man! As I’m staying with the original color scheme, I think I’ll really keep it blue and just select between Alpine, Culver and Sheridan blue with the matte grey dash. Sheridan I’m not sure it was so common at the time as I found more on trucks rather cars. It’ll done kind of slowly as I have another money consuming friend… 65 F-100 Brazilian Fridge Body. Greetings from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Silver tone Gray is a strange color. It looks like a light blue It looks like a light green It looks like a gray I believe it and.........Sea Island Green are very close but still different. In trying to read a color from a sample card it’s very easy to get these two colors mixed up. Sheridan is dark almost Navy Alpine is a “baby blue”.
I know this is a couple years after first posted, but here is a full breakdown of your data plate. Starting with the serial number, B1EG150107: B=239 cid/100 HP V8 engine; 1=1951 model year, EG=Edgewater ***embly plant, New Jersey, 150107=50,107th 1951 Ford scheduled for production at the Edgewater plants. (Cars were not built in unit sequence order). The second line tells us, Body 73B=4-door sedan/Custom Trim level or series; Color H=Silvertone Gray metallic; Trim D=Gray woven "Star-Dot" patterned broadcloth interior; Production code, 21H 314=August 21, 1951 (a Tuesday) as the day your Ford was scheduled for ***embly, 314=Rotation production number A total of 232,691 Custom Fordor (4-door) sedans were produced by Ford in the USA during the 1951 model year. A total of 69,208 Fords were produced at the Edgewater, New Jersey ***embly plants. Unfortunately we do not know how many Custom Fordors were produced at Edgewater. As for the 150 speedometer, that is probably being measured in Kilometers per hour. Edgewater was where Ford prepared a lot of their export vehicles shipped to the Caribbean, Europe and South America. My bet is your car was probably sold new in Brasil. Hope this helps, although about two years too late.
Thanks a lot buddy - I'm the same user, but I lost access to my previous mail, so I had to create a new user account..... I'm unsure if this is the right place, but I'm wondering on what is easier and "more user friendly" for e DIY'er, on a garage build, a SBF 302 or a Y-block 292? I'm a bit scared with Y-block spare parts prices (I've got a 292 laying around), even in US. And after taxes to Brazil (100% taxes over imports, final value overall) it gets even creapier.... I've started slow dis***embly on the car in my back yard...
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