Hot Rods Early hemi bronze

Early hemi’s where painted a sort of bronze brown colour does anyone know the paint code or supplier of it (I’m in the Uk) I thought Eastwood or frost used to sell it but not anymore it seems.

 

I've had two, a 331 out of a '54 New Yorker and a '56 truck 331, and they were both silver.

 

Aluminum with black bolt ons on a 1953 & 55. Golden bronze was a popular color for engine builders in the 60s.

 

My untouched standard "56" 354 is all silver, the high performance model that year was silver with gold valve covers.

 

The original paint on mine was the bronze (I thought) then white and red

 

Most were silver with black accessories.

 

2F3B68DA-8131-49A8-8F68-456F582B3483 by KFC posted Aug 17, 2018 at 1:42 PM

Mines a 51

 

Yep....artist's renderings were very often wrong.

 

I imagine there COULD have been some bronze ones.

 

This is from Allpar....looks silver to me....

 

Mine was the colour of that picture, no eveidence of anything underneath

 

That photo is slightly off color. It should look more silver than bronze. Silver does get a yellowish-brown tint after a while. Maybe your did.

 

C156A04E-1E26-4B6B-A515-7E21121D0AAB by KFC posted Aug 17, 2018 at 2:02 PM

Left hand half of the bell housing

 

Many years ago I had a stock, original, unmolested '51 New Yorker and later a '53 NewYorker, both were silver. Same for the '55 and '56 NY 331/354 hemis I acquired in the past ten years or so directly from the vehicles they were installed in when new.

Ray

 

Here is a different angle of the hemi with a more correct, silvery color....

 

The two Desoto engines I had (276 and 330) were also the silver colour, and they were Canadian ones.
I'm mentioning this because you are in the mother country. There are sometimes differences between the US and Canadian versions of cars, and Canada generally supplied cars to the Commonwealth.