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Re: [oletrucks] Engine colors

To: mark@noakes.com, oletrucks@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Engine colors
From: wayne osborne <wayne@chevytrucks.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:03:38 -0500
This may be the PPG for the darker gray as I had this in my notes on past 
engine color threads...
Gray is the right color for truck 216-235 most years. PPG 34560 is a
currently available match.    --wayne


At 04:45 PM 2/22/03 -0800, mark@noakes.com wrote:
>Ed,
>
> From my notes from Bob Adler and the Cameo organization per the gray 
> engine color:
>
>1--There was quite a bit of variation in shades of gray as GM didn't have 
>an "official"
>shade.
>
>2--There were definitely two tints of gray, a darker gray with a slight 
>green tint to it
>and a lighter gray with a blue tint to it.  The lighter blue tint seems to 
>be more
>correct for the 57-59 era; the PPG paint number is 33750.  I can't find 
>the PPG number
>for the darker gray.
>
>My brother painted the 265 for his 57 Cameo the lighter blue gray; I 
>painted the V8  for
>my 58/56 Suburban the darker gray and then painted the Chevrolet script on 
>the valve
>covers Bombay Ivory...not original (the trucks did not have painted 
>script) but it looks
>cool...
>
>Mark Noakes
>
>On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, BagpiperEd@aol.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Can anyone tell me the proper colors for '57 Chevy engines, or at least 
> where
> > to find that info?
> > Thanks,
> > Ed.
> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959

Wayne Osborne
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