every original bellhouse I've seen has been rust colored, like the transmission and rear end and most everything else underneath .... as you're building a show truck, paint it the same as the engine block

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature we find it attached to the rest of the world" John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics & Rust-a-holics Unanimous parking lot