I do not know of the truck model but my very first car I ever had in 1967 was a 50 Tudor with the six and it was bronze. And it would blow off a v-8 flathead very easily. Don`t know why it was not more well accepted.
1950 F1 engine color
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havi
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To play devil's advocate, there's no mention of "Commercial" in the 1949-50-51 Ford F-series trucks shop manual w/1952 supplement.
However, even as the telusplanet chart indicates, the color is deep red for "commercial" for 1950. The car's could be bronze, I suppose. The 254 L6 I have from a 1949 F6 is red, not dark blue or green. So I look at that chart with some hesitation. The Wagner letter I posted on FTE seems to be a bit more accurate to me, but still has me wondering overall. I would really like to see this all mapped out better than what that chart shows. Afterall, there's no acknowledgement between L6 and V8's in that chart. If a database can be put together, that'd be great.
However, even as the telusplanet chart indicates, the color is deep red for "commercial" for 1950. The car's could be bronze, I suppose. The 254 L6 I have from a 1949 F6 is red, not dark blue or green. So I look at that chart with some hesitation. The Wagner letter I posted on FTE seems to be a bit more accurate to me, but still has me wondering overall. I would really like to see this all mapped out better than what that chart shows. Afterall, there's no acknowledgement between L6 and V8's in that chart. If a database can be put together, that'd be great.
wjkidwell@comcast.net
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My original 1952 F3, with a flathead "truck" eight cylinder engine that came from factory GREEN!!
joe plumber
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And the Ford Canada engines in Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, '49 '50 '51 8BA were cream colour for cars, tangerine for EAB '52 '53 '54, and green for '49 '53 Mercs with 8CM, 1CM and EAC and '52 '53 '54 Meteors with EAC, and 8RT trucks were cream until '54, no 6 cylinder engines until '56. ..B.
Dick Webber
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Here's what I did with mine. Sharp eyes will find some errors, and I apologize for the top hose, but it was handy at the time.
As a boy in the 50's like Henry I hated the 6 and never liked them until I got one. Doesn't sound as good as the V8s in my 49 Mercury and 39 Deluxe but runs great and is absolutely trouble free. The 226 is a great engine in my book.
As a boy in the 50's like Henry I hated the 6 and never liked them until I got one. Doesn't sound as good as the V8s in my 49 Mercury and 39 Deluxe but runs great and is absolutely trouble free. The 226 is a great engine in my book.
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havi
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I just had a rebuilt 226 in my garage, I sent to a buyer. It was originally a medium green, presumed 1951, from a truck. The head was bronze (0HA-6050), and the oil filter blue car color). The rebuild tag said "National Bushing and Parts, Co". I've read before, replacement parts were bronze. The rebuild date was 1957.
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Vic Piano
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Just to add to the confusion, in the 50th Anniversary Ford book, (produced and published by Ford), there is a color photograph of Flathead V8’s on an assembly line, some are painted red and some are bronze... Most of the photos used in the book appear to have been taken in '52… Another Ford anomaly to be pondered...
smitty city
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we have a 48 226 in our shop, the engine's original color was definitely the dark red (just slightly darker than bright red), got the right color in a rattle can from c&g