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I need some advise, I have stripped the complete truck to bare metal, painted the engine. Is it common to paint the firewall black like the one eastwood sells underhood black. I am not sure about color, and do not know about my ability to shoot the quality color properly but I need to keep moving as my garage lease is until September and need to get truck running. so I want to assemble the truck with primer and decide on the color and want to be able to drive the truck to paint shop if needed. Want to complete the engine area, primer and assemble the truck.

Any advise will help please?

Ganesh

Make, model, year of truck?

52 AD 3/4 ton

I went with black, but then again I painted my truck black so it was easy. I would paint it a dark color for sure something you can keep clean easy. I'm not one for painting the firewall the same color as the rest of the vehicle, even on my truck I painted it semi gloss black.

If you're going original, I think the firewalls were cab color.

As Dave correctly stated, the 47-55 Chevrolet cab-firewall was painted body color on the engine side. The inner fenders, radiator/radiator-frame, frame-to-firewall brace-bars were a semi-gloss black.

Whatever colour you choose, best to get final coat on while you can get at it. Difficult to finish nicely after motor installed.

...just another thought. On my panel I painted it body color down to where it started to "taper back/down". You can see what it looks like just as a body or with the engine in at my photobucket below. Hope this helps.

I suggest you decided on a color and paint the firewall that color. If you just can't do that, then paint it black since it will go with just about any color.