Hi Fordman, We kinda already established the correct color for the valve covers is blue, for the 59 truck 292, they are blue already and the truck is pretty original. The paint on manifold looks blue but not much of it is left to be completely sure. Kenny says his manifold is red and I did find a speck of red paint going up the oil filler tube, but I cant belive that would be the color scheem, so I think I will just go with ford medium blue and the block black and air cleaner black. Annie