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Re: [oletrucks] 1959 engine paint 235

To: NAPCO_trucks <napco4x4@yahoogroups.com>,
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] 1959 engine paint 235
From: "Mark Noakes" <mark@noakes.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:02:19 -0800
Thanks Bob...

Mark Noakes

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Adler" 
To: "Mark Noakes" <mark@noakes.com>
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] 1959 engine paint 235
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:44:18 -0400

> 
> Mark,
> the sixes were all gray till 1954 when the 261 went to pea green, then
> yellow in 55.  the 235s stayed gray in trucks, blue in cars.  Most of the
> late 50s trucks were wearing car engines by the time we got involved, so
> many think blue is correct for trucks.  Not so.  I know some of the v8s were
> gray also into the late 1960s.  Robert Hensel had that list, first apearing
> in Pickups 'n Panels in Print.
> Bob ADler
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Noakes" <mark@noakes.com>
> To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Cc: "NAPCO_trucks" <napco4x4@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 4:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] 1959 engine paint 235
> 
> 
> Someone posted the url to a list of engine colors per size of truck, engine
> type, and year a while back...not sure where that is though since I've
> swapped computers since then.  Anyone remember the site I'm talking about?
> 
> I didn't think the swap on colors was until 60 as that was when the V8s went
> to orange (correct?), but all I know for sure is that the V8s were still
> gray in 58 as mine was original and still had it...what was left of the
> paint anyway.   Not sure about the 235s as I'm more of a small block V8
> guy...not counting my 58 GMC 270...which I still don't know much about...and
> Corvairs...which don't count here anyway.
> 
> Might be a question for Bob Adler.
> 
> Mark Noakes
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J Forbes" <jforb@mindspring.com>
> To: "Old Trucks List" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Subject: [oletrucks] 1959 engine paint 235
> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:40:21 -0700
> 
> >
> > Finally got the blue engine paint from Chevy Duty (they outsource it and
> it get's
> > shipped parcel post), and what do you know, it looks like a very good
> match for the
> > original paint that was on the two 59 6 cylinders I have here.
> >
> > I wonder what year Chevy switched over from gray engine paint in trucks?
> >
> > -- Jim
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Noakes
> 
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