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Old 04-17-2008, 04:23 AM   #1
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motor color

post some pics of your motors and what color youall painted them i want to pain mine gm blue or pontiac blue whats is your all opnion
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Old 04-17-2008, 04:26 AM   #2
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Re: motor color

GM orange, GM blue or black
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Old 04-17-2008, 04:43 AM   #3
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I went black with mine, to match the rest of the truck.
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Old 04-17-2008, 05:46 AM   #4
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went with duplicolors blue, not sure what number it was, if you want the number let me know.



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Old 04-17-2008, 05:58 AM   #5
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Old 04-17-2008, 06:35 AM   #6
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i used plastikotes orange and it looks great
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Old 04-17-2008, 06:35 AM   #7
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Always done my chevy engines in orange. Painted one of my caddy engines a real fugly pastel lookin corperate blue... did NOT like it one bit. The current cad motor is Ford blue... looks much better IMO.
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Old 04-17-2008, 06:45 AM   #8
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bright red
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Old 04-17-2008, 06:50 AM   #9
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Orange ... as if there is any other choice.
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Old 04-17-2008, 06:51 AM   #10
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Here's the motor that was in my '72:
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Old 04-17-2008, 07:30 AM   #11
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I went with the Chevy Orange!
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Old 04-17-2008, 07:57 AM   #12
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I did mine in high temp flat black for grill's......







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Old 04-17-2008, 08:10 AM   #13
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Just Red.
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Old 04-17-2008, 08:17 AM   #14
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Dayum, that is a badass motor dude!!!!

What are the specs?
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Old 04-17-2008, 07:53 AM   #15
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Here's the motor that was in my '72:

Did that come with a Purple KZ1000 in the bed and a complete Prince CD collection?
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Old 04-17-2008, 07:29 AM   #16
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i like the corp blue or pontiac blue cause my truck is going to be either a brewster green or maroon
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Old 04-17-2008, 02:18 PM   #17
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here is my fathers engine factory GM orange
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Old 04-17-2008, 02:38 PM   #18
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i didn't know they would run any other color
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Old 04-17-2008, 02:42 PM   #19
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I had always painted mine Chevy Orange. But this time, I went with the color of the truck...."Blue"
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Old 04-17-2008, 03:46 PM   #20
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Re: motor color

This is my wife's truck, the color is called grabber green. I would have gone orange if it was mine but....

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Old 04-17-2008, 03:57 PM   #21
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on mine the block is chevy orange and the heads and oil pan are Black
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