landst, sorry for the rant man, it wasn't directed toward you at all. I'm glad to hear you do your own thing that awesome. That's the way it should be. I just sometimes get tired of reading where guys say it's trendy or beat on other people's stuff. I know you didn't mean it like that. I guess it just came out in this thread from me. Man, I apologize for the way I expressed it earlier I guess I was having a ***** moment myself! Anyways as I stated mine is gold cause that's the way I found it!
Just handover the Nailhead and no one gets hurt. I think we need a nailhead fold out. Gold or other wise. Gold goes with EVERYTHING.
I painted mine gold so I would have a deferent color motor then everyone else . I don’t get out enough
gold may very well be the new flat black but i don't think the rednecks will be painting their car gold "cause it looks ****in tuff man!" so as I can avoid that I will take my gold engine and love it. that said guys, there is a reason you use silver under candy gold...
Whatever the engine color was, when it came from the Factory. I don't particularly care for the Aluminum color of my Hemi's, but that's what they get painted. Valve covers and accessories are chrome, polished aluminum, etc.....
Does this mean I have to paint the factory gold big block mopar Golden Commando engine I have another color?
The simple fact is, without a doubt, every possible color (as evidence by the pink motor) has been used to paint engines, cars, frames, etc. If you look at it this way, there is no way to be "original" anymore. So at some point you have to say, who the **** cares if this is the trend today, my engine will still be this color in 10, 15, 20 years. If everyone got wrapped up in not doing things because they were trendy, then anti-conformity becomes conformity. Simply put, do what you think looks great to you.
WTF,,why so many ??? hmm hows about well over 10,000 people on this site,,I'm sure at least 100 cars will have gold motors ,,if not 100 cars that look the same,,,gezzzzzz no fads,,just exposure to alotta cars
Man, I think there is close to 70,000 people on this site!!! So your statement make even more sense if you figure all those people.
I've been painting my engines gold for years, just liked the way it looked. Plus, the motor is the "heart" of the vehicle and if I'm putting this much time and money into a ride, she better have a heart of gold!!!
Couldn't be say 425/455? Around '66 to 70 or so? My 425 is red (can't decide if the aircleaner should be black, or orange) And my 303 is Green (with gold wire looms) My 394 is going to be electric blue with gold and silver flake straight 8 olds is black My 223 will be gold 218 Mopar 6 is gonna be white
That's funny stuff. My avatar a while back was the mugshot from Mugshots.com of a dude that got nailed huffing silver paint. His mouth looked like Ronald McDonald in silver!! The motor in my son's truck is gold. It came that way and I was thrilled to find gold engine paint at NAPA when we changed the heads and intake. We like it and that's all that matters!
correct. and I have a couple of each. 400-gold. 425-red. 455 gold. why? Beats me, that's just How Olds rolled.
This ones' Olds Gold, the Buick was green, and the one before that was black. Sick of Chevy Orange..oops, I just thought about it again. I'm gonna be sick. Hold back my hair.
And if it's a Toro' engine for some reason it's blue....Why is Olds so confusing? It took me 2 days to actually figure out what color my 425 was supposed to be...and I'm still lost on the air cleaner, mainly because I don't think an orange 'cleaner with red engine would look right...
Well............... My car is Maroon and the only colors I could think of were Silver or Gold. I have a bunch of aluminum performance parts and they would have been lost in the silver. So............................ I painted it GOLD!
Maybe we could start a new trend or have it be a HAMBers code engine color. Paint your next engine copper or calf **** yellow. Gun metal gray. 80 bottles of Testors model paint oughta do the trick.
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