318 engine paint color
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2022 2:08 pm
On my '69 D300, the engine is blue. I've yet to see if the engine is original to the truck. It may not be, because the pan is red, from another engine, or possibly a replacement engine that didn't have the truck pan and oil pickup tube installed. I know that a '69 small block could've been Red, Hemi orange or Corporate Blue in cars, but it's been quite a while since I've seen under the hood of another '69 small block truck. Since my interior is Blue, I've thought both about keeping that Blue, or going to Red for a more patriotic scheme.
I know '69 trucks don't have Hemi Orange 318s in them. So, was the odd possibility with cars also applicable to trucks? There really wasn't a rhyme nor reason to the cars having one of three colors in a small block engine. I've owned 1969 Mopars with any of the three possiblities.
Did the trucks have the same seemingly random occurrence with Blue and Red?
I know '69 trucks don't have Hemi Orange 318s in them. So, was the odd possibility with cars also applicable to trucks? There really wasn't a rhyme nor reason to the cars having one of three colors in a small block engine. I've owned 1969 Mopars with any of the three possiblities.
Did the trucks have the same seemingly random occurrence with Blue and Red?
