Chrysler (burnt) orange engine color?

[crowe-t]

Did Chrysler ever have an engine color that was burnt orange, a brown-ish orange?

I've seen Street Hemi Orange(red-orange color) and Race Hemi Orange.

[StevenGuthmiller]

Not that I have ever seen.

I can't attest to what color the engines were prior to the mid 50s or so, but colors from that era were usually black, silver or gold.

In the 60s, colors included the bright oranges, turquoise, red and later on blue.

Once the mid 70s arrived I lost interest and didn't care what color they painted those boat anchors!

 

So to answer your question, without doing some real digging, I can't say that there was no "burnt orange" at some point, but I have never seen it.

 

 

Steve

[SfanGoch]

Chrysler Engine colors

[StevenGuthmiller]

26 minutes ago, SfanGoch said:

Chrysler Engine colors

Looks like I did okay in my recollections.

The only one I missed and don't remember is the yellow slant 6's.

But then again, why would you waste memory space on a slant 6?

 

 

 

Steve

[SfanGoch]

I had a slant 6 in my 1972 Plymouth Valiant, for which I bought for $325. It ran for 325 dollars' worth of time (five months) before the "indestructible" Slant 6 seized while I was looking for a parking space.

[StevenGuthmiller]

56 minutes ago, SfanGoch said:

It ran for 325 dollars' worth of time

Well, at least you got your money's worth.

 

Steve

[SfanGoch]

Yeah. I had to fork over 50 bucks to the guy in the scrapyard to take it off my hands.

[Tom Geiger]

Not a fan of that color chart. There are inaccuracies...

For instance.

Slant sixes... 170, 198 were blue

225 were red

truck engines were yellow

There were also marine application engines. Cannot remember the color 

[Classicgas]

Sorry tom but the 225 slant 6 in both the 70 and 73 Darts I owned were blue.

[StevenGuthmiller]

Okay, so there seems to be a couple of inconsistencies with this particular chart, but for the purpose of this thread, I believe that we are likely all in agreement that Chrysler did not produce a "burnt orange" engine.

 

 

Steve 

[StevenGuthmiller]

18 minutes ago, Tom Geiger said:

There were also marine application engines. Cannot remember the color 

I seem to remember turquoise for marine engines?

 

 

Steve

[restoman]

I've owned a few late 60s small block Mopars that had red engines, faded and aged they could be taken as a burnt orange-ish colour...

[gtx6970]

No burnt orange engine color of any year. 

[crowe-t]

I was talking with Mike at MCW and he found formulas for 3 Chrysler orange engine colors.  Street Hemi Orange, Race Hemi Orange and a sort of burnt orange color.  I've never seen a Chrysler engine in the burnt orange color.    

Edited August 18, 2019 by crowe-t

[gtx6970]

Several years ago.i was told

There were 3 different orange 

1964-65 Race hemi.

1966-67 street hemi

And 1968-71 street hemi.

From what i remember...was told there was VERY little difference between 66/67 color versus later version.

 

I personally can't verify or deny them.

Just never seen it myself.

 

Mopar burnt orange exterior paint is FK5 .

It was never avail as an engine color .

 

[crowe-t]

The engine color isn't called burnt orange, it just looks like that way.  Sorry about the confusion.

[StevenGuthmiller]

3 hours ago, crowe-t said:

The engine color isn't called burnt orange, it just looks like that way.  Sorry about the confusion.

If you know of any examples of this, please post pictures.

It might help to make a diagnosis.

 

Steve

[crowe-t]

It's the one on the left.

[StevenGuthmiller]

47 minutes ago, crowe-t said:

It's the one on the left.

Actually, I was referring to a photo of an actual stock engine painted that color.

I suspect that you will not find any.

If you find anything close, most likely it's a dirty or oxidized version of one of the other oranges.

 

The color on the left looks closer to one of the Ford flathead colors.

 

 

Steve

 

[crowe-t]

I haven't been able to find a picture of a Chrysler engine in the color.