Original 223 Color

[wherestheothercylhead]

Hey all. I have a 61 F100 with a 223 I am resto-modding. I do want to paint the engine the original colors. Any idea what that is? The motor right now is some shade of reddish-orange, but it looks like there was blue under that. I am going to be looking for advice on makin this baby run better once I dive into getting this truck on the road. Thanks for any help.



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[texas_rat_trap]

I can't remember for the 223 but the 215 was a kinda dark forest green from what i remember.

 

[wherestheothercylhead]

I got a reply off another forum...Black with a red Valve cover


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[WerbyFord]

As long as the other forum was aware, the truck and car engines were usually different colors back then.
For 61, I show the 223 as black w/red vc for the car, no info on truck.
However I do show the truck 292 as all red for 61, whereas the car was black iron, red stampings.

For 58-59, I show the 223 truck as yellow from this post:

http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/72911 ... olour.html

Again I am not sure it seems odd yours is now a reddish color, I'd double check. Amazing how hard it can be to find color info.

 

[Anonymous]

I have a 64 223 and both bk/vc are blue

 

[62jimi]

as far as I know it's black engine and red valve cover, and the red is really "chevy orange" I doubted it myself when I first heard it but what paint was left on my valve cover matches the chevy orange perfectly.

 

[Astrowing]

I also have a 1961 F100 with the 223. If the block is black and valve cover is orange, is the air cleaner housing black or orange?

 

[rponycar]

my 64 f100 w/ 223 has black block, orange valve cover, black air cleaner. Has never been repainted.

 

[panelbeater]

This is an old post, but my 1961 M100 blk and vc are both classic ford blue, I have yet to re-paint and where the old blue paint has chipped there is no color underneath so I think it is the original paint job....

 

[59F100]

Ford should have left better records or not used so many dang colors!

Check out this link:

http://www.fordification.com/bumpwiki/i ... ine_Colors

I cant confirm or deny the information there. I reversed the color combo for my 59 223 and painted the block red.