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#78378 06/04/2007 12:21 AM | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 44 Member | | Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 44 | Just painted my 50 chevy 216 engine with engine grey from filling station. I was expecting the blue grey that Ive seen in some photos posted however this is grey no blue about it, just passing on information to any others that may be thinking of using this paint, it really dark grey
Was told it was orignal color by seller.
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#78379 06/04/2007 12:43 AM | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | AD_Pickup
I think GREY is a common variant of GRAY. They both indicate the same thing...a color. This difference in spelling is along the same lines as ORAGANIZE and ORGANISE.
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#78380 06/04/2007 12:48 AM | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,029 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,029 | It is the original color. Most of us are used to seeing the lighter blue gray that rebuilt engines were painted, and came to be accepted as the original color, even at VCCA car shows. | | |
#78381 06/04/2007 12:51 AM | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,029 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,029 | Stuart,
I will Or-agonize over that. But around here, we Oregonize. | | |
#78382 06/04/2007 1:28 AM | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | Baldy,  Stchuewhart | | |
#78383 06/04/2007 3:03 AM | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 44 Member | | Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 44 | Thanks for the reply Stuart and Baldy
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#78384 06/04/2007 3:38 AM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 181 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 181 | Thomas Jefferson once said, "I have absolutely no use for any man who can think of only one way to spell a word!" (pairafrazed) My kinda guy!!!! 
The only thing more amazing than my ability to cram 60 minutes of work into a 9 hour day is my talent for making it look effortless! My 1962 Chevy C-30 | | |
#78385 06/04/2007 3:46 AM | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | AD_Pickup, I guess the accepted spelling depends on what dictionary you look in. Gray is a color, but grey is a colour too! I think both are words.  Stuart | | |
#78386 06/04/2007 4:44 AM | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | which is the variant AD? what you were taught in school isn't necessarily relevant to usage in the entire English speaking world, where generally the 2 are considered exactly equivilent .... quite what Stu said - you need a different dictionary , or maybe a wiktionary .... as well as some relaxation to recharge your courtesy cells Bill | | |
#78387 06/04/2007 5:19 AM | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,029 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,029 | Bill, you are mostly right, but I think you will find that they are EQUIVALENT in all dictionaries, just as AD will not find "reconise" with a z in any dictionary. ;-) | | |
#78388 06/04/2007 6:18 AM | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | my point I suppose, Baldy - we all know that gray is grey .... no blue [or bleu] about it eye-ther .... and AD prolly wasn't taught 'aagin' ether, nor did Ken think he was lookin for gris-bleu, but then, like AD, he's from the US, unlike many other members here, and US spell checkers are notoriously plebian .... if not provincial, especially ones from 1940 Bill | | |
#78389 06/05/2007 3:21 AM | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 920 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2004 Posts: 920 | You guys better watch out for the enforcers!!! They moved my very similar post in the provided link from here to paint and body shop last week, effectively ending my traffic.  Even though it was about engines :confused: http://www.stovebolt.com/bboard/cgi-bin//ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=004551 | | |
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