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| | | | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 3 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 3 | Can someone tell me the correct engine color for my '66 292?
The best I can tell it was "green". But I have not been able to confirm this for sure. And even if if I could confirm that it's green I don't knolw which green.
I never thought this information would be this tough to find. Someone out there must know, right?
Can you help?
Thanks.
Stephen
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Turquoise blue and a bud license plate | | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 196 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 196 | my dads 68 gmc 292 was chevy orange when new | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 95 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 95 | My 64 292 was a blue gray color when I got it. I have resprayed it twice. Redcoat | | | | | Joined: May 2003 Posts: 224 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: May 2003 Posts: 224 | hey stephen, i know exactly what color your talking about. im rebuilding my 292 right now and after powerwashing off all the grease and dirt, i found that mine too has a light green color. all ive ever heard from people is that 292's only come in two colors, chevy blue and chevy orange. my dad has a 75 sports van that has chevy orange straight from the factory. my guess is that in the late sixties and through out the seventies they started painting them orange. im trying to find out where i can find the appropriate color green as well. keep looking, ill post if i find the correct color but i really dont want to have to settle for anything else but original either. anyone else know about this green color? | | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 | Try checking with the Eastwood Company. They deal with restoration products like paints and chemicals and equipment.
Scott | | | | | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 37 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 37 | I asked this same question a while ago mine is a 66 chevy with same green engine original color nobody had an answer
Good Luck Dave | | | | | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 272 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 272 | I may be way off on this again but....
Either the Brothers or the Chevy duty catalog has "rare green GMC engine paint"
Ill look right now.
Please hold...... | | | | | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 272 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 272 | Ok I found it....
"This is the correct Olive color used on early GMC 6cyl engines. Sold in quarts." 34.95
I found this at brothers trucks under the paint section.
check it out. | | | | | Joined: May 2003 Posts: 224 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: May 2003 Posts: 224 | dude you rock man!!! thanks so much, i was pretty sure that this thread had already died and was about to give up and just paint it chevy orange. thanks for finding that, now i can continue with my project. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 255 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 255 | The 292 that I have is green as well, but I dont know what year of truck it came out of. Thanks for the heads up on the paint. I think that the green was only on the very first 292's.
Ralph | | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 | The 261's were green, too. It seems to have been Chevy's way of denoting the larger, optional 6 for a few years.
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A lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. | | | | | Joined: May 2003 Posts: 57 Member | | Member Joined: May 2003 Posts: 57 | I know this is a late post, but my 65 292 C10 has the same pale green as well.I ended up using a F@#d green...sooo close I had to use it w/o going thru the trouble of ordering it.
65 C10 292/700R4 long fleet...Gettin closer by the day.
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 19 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 19 | Check out this link: http://chevyasylum.com/64c10/64c10_11.html Ray Buck lives in Utah and has a great website at chevyasylum.com. He's got a '64 C-10 and seems to know the correct color on Page 11. ---Scoob | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 | | | |
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