Um, I believe the mechanics who rebuilt my engine a couple of years ago sprayed my engine the wrong color :af: ! I'm assuming the correct color would be a light green? Currently it is a light blue, very similar to the color of robins egg. I know it's not that big of a deal but it's an all original car and this is already really starting to bug me. Thanks for the help guys!
Thats what I was thinking, thanks for confirming my thought. Now, to find the mechanic :spank: :rant: :moonu: :blast: !
It is pretty common to find a lot of rebuilt engines painted the wrong color. Unless the person doing the rebuild is an expert in the line of cars, they just paint what they "remember" the color should be, and don't necessarily consider the paint already on the engine, or they just don't care. I owned a 64 LeSabre with the 300 engine someone painted Buick Red. It should have been silver, as it was a 300. I think the guy that rebuilt it had seen plenty of later model Buicks and thought "all Buick motors are red." I think you see a lot of this mis-match repaint because of consumers. If you pop the hood, and your rebuilt engine is still the grungy old paint that was on it, in your mind nothing was done. It you open the hood and there is a clean engine there, in your mind, it is now "new". It shouldn't be too hard to repaint.
