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I'm rebuilding my '53 237 Flathead. The 'Original Green' color of the engine is a darker green than the 'New Paint' I can find. Anyone have recommendations? New paint. Original green.
Greetings. My truck is a 52 and an I6, but I think your, "new paint", is close to being the correct factory color.
Here is what I believe to be factory correct colors for a 52 six cylinder engine:
The paint is from Bill Hirsch and is called: Lincoln Mercury Light Green--order no. 5670-5003.
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There seems to be conflicting information out there about this and the more I looked, the more I was confused.
I believe now though the paint used in ‘53 was the lighter green.
My engine had been replaced, so I didn’t have a reference on it to start with. I purchased the dark green Bill Hirsh paint from a classic Ford place in OKC and after completing painting and reassembling my engine, I discovered the bell housing was the light green.
The bell housing was so dirty I didn’t realize it was painted until I started into the transmission build. My engine had a rebuild tag riveted on it. There was no indication the transmission or bell housing wasn’t original.
pics of both colors —
Greetings ShootinOK. I'm very familiar with the dark green engine paint you have pictured. You can read about my experience in my thread entitled: "Yikes, Engine Paint Mismatch", from a few years ago. Bottom line, I learned (the hard way) that Bill Hirsch sells more than one paint color called, "Lincoln Green". The dark color in your picture is for Lincoln V12's from the 1930's and 40's. Green Ford engines in the early 1950's were painted a color called: "Lincoln MERCURY LIGHT Green". As mentioned, the order number for the 1950's color is 5670-5003.
Jim
ps I'm familiar too with the guy pictured in your signature. Most late nights I stay up and watch a few old Gun Smoke re-runs. Matt Dillan is always good, never susceptible to temptation, and somehow able to survive, night after night, even the most hopeless situations. Your guy, Jack Elan, is almost always bad and ends up dead--and always for good reason.
Chances are you won't find an exact match at the hardware store. You might try to take your sample to an automotive paint store and see if they can match it. They should be able to come up with something very close and put it into spray cans for you if you don't have access to real spray equipment. Enamel car paint works excellent on engines.
FWIW...detroit diesel alpine green is different, a minty green than the lincoln merc. light green, a less intense yellowish green, that bill hirsch sells. I personally suspect that before bill hirsch sold his paint remanufactured flatheads might have been painted detroit diesel alpine green? I know it matched a lot of pieces that were on my engine. Or maybe it was just the closest match available to restorers over the counter at an earlier time.
Old starter motor painted in what looks like Detroit Diesel Alpine Green with the cap painted by me in the Bill Hirsch Lin. Merc. Lt. Green. The card is a sample of motor coater Detroit Diesel. Alp. Green. (thats a shadow line across the sample card.
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