[Tigers] Engine Paint Colors - again

[Tom Parker]

I'm looking at the picture of the engine when I pulled it out of the car.
It's a Tiger 2, #105 (very early). The block is C5AE-6015E, so it was cast
in '65 as a 289. The block was Ford Black. Hard to tell from the picture,
but I cleaned it off before I tore it down. It was black. However, the
heads, intake manifold, timing cover, and the Toploader were "Old Ford
Blue." I got what I thought was the correct color from Year One, but it was
the newer, bluer "Corporate" blue. Duplicolor had the correct blue, labeled
"Old Ford Blue". It was a very close match to what was on the manifold and
transmission, given that paint was 40 years old at the time.

Hard to tell what color was used where. All I can speak to is the engine I
have; I've owned the car since '76. What happened to it before that I can't
say.

Tom

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Ron Fraser <rfraser at bluefrog.com> wrote:

> Dave
>        I wish I could help here.  I don't have the information needed to
> confirm the correct shade of Blue.
> Tod Brown sent me a picture of the original blue engine paint on his car
> and
> he states that DE 1606 matches.  I have also seen pictures that look like
> medium blue and some pictures look even lighter.
>
>        The problem is I do not have any original B19KC blue in hand to
> compare.  I made a paint stick with DE 1601, the lighter shade, and DE
> 1621,
> medium shade, but it is impossible to compare my paint stick to a picture;
> way too many variables.
>
> http://www.fordification.com/bumpwiki/index.php?title=Ford_Engine_Colors
> This is the best site I have found that at least shows the 3 shades of blue
> together.  I have to shine a light on my paint stick to come close to the
> shades represented on that page.
>
> I wish I had a better answer.  This is a case where Tiger owners with B19KC
> engines painted blue needed to check the shade of blue on their engines.
> It is also possible that the 289 engines in the MK II are painted a
> different shade of blue. I simply can not make that determination.
>
> Ron Fraser
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of David T Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:40 PM
> To: Joel Martin
> Cc: Tigers at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Engine Paint Colors - again
>
>
> Joel now I'm cinfused.
> Ron Fraser...can you help out.
>
> My Tiger B382002668 was built is Dec 1996.. it has the 18KC engine with Rev
> 9.  I'm about to paint it in a few weeks.  I asuumed from the earlier
> discussion it should be DE 1606.  I'm covering was is a very dark blue.
> Since my car is near the end of MK IA, did Sunbeam use DE1606 oer perhaps
> DE
> 1601.  My question is:  Is DE 1601 the lig
>
> --- On Thu, 4/15/10, Joel Martin <jmartiniii at yahoo.com> wrote:
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