What shade of green is used on a 26 engine and is the front plate and generator bracket painted green?

The engine block, head, carburetor and hose connections are painted a dark green called "Ford Green" sold in aerosol cans by Snyder's (Part# M-200). If you do a keyword search for past threads you will be able to find all kinds of information on the various colors used to paint the various parts. Alot of folks paint such parts as the starter, generator, pan, hogshead, coilbox and horn, gloss black. Jim Patrick

The Snyder's paint is Model A green.

Here is Trent Boggess' research and pics of what is believed to be the correct '26-27 color.

http://oz.plymouth.edu/~trentb/Motor%20Paint.html

Just like I said. Dark Green. Looks just like the Ford Green I have on my engine, sold by Snyder's for the "'26-'31" Ford engines. Jim Patrick

This is the Snyder's (incorrect for a T) engine color:

Seth. If you intentionally typed "in" in front of correct, one of us is color blind. It looks perfect and totally correct to me. I say one would have a difficult time getting a closer match, but I'm only a purist. LOL!! Jim Patrick

I believe maybe you are color blind.

The T engine color looks more olive to me as if it has lots of yellow in it. The model A engine color is very blue-green with lots of black in it.

I see a huge difference in the colors. I'm no purist whatsoever and I'm glad for it because that T engine color is not any color I'd want on my engine. LOL!

I'm not color blind and the two are not close. One is Model A green the other is dark olive.

Jim, you must need a new computer screen. :-)

I should add that the Snyder's paint I bought was not in aerosol cans, it was in a pint can and I brushed it on - with the engine in the car and cylinder head detached.

Strange Seth..........we were both typing basically the same thing at the same time.

Well, I am (pastel) color blind and the color Tim painted my engine is close enough for government work.

Dennis,

Nice engine. I pictured you as a taller man but, maybe that's a huge engine?

Well Jim, it appears, as a purist, you must have been there, painting engines in '26, and must know for sure. Since you have spoken, there can be no further debate. LOL too.

Thanks Jerry. Since mine is the final word, I declare that the Green on Seth's engine is correct and heretofore shall be known as "Seth's Ford Green".

Frankly, I think all of the greens shown look great, except for the dull dark olive drab engine posted by Drew that is perported to be correct according to "Trent Boggess research and pics of what is believed to be the correct '26-'27 color". Repeat: "what is believed", but who can know for sure. As can be attested to by original body finishes, paint colors change drastically, over time especially on an engine subjected to 80 year's worth of heat and hot oil fumes and I'm sure that the dull olive drab color looked much different in the 1920's and the article even says it was re-painted so, who's to say that the paint that it was re-painted with was exactly correct? Who's to say it wasn't originally a brighter green back then. Also, I'll wager that Ford had many suppliers and the green engine enamels used back then varied from factory to factory depending on the supplier and the color formulas that were used from batch to batch probably varied as well. As for your engine Seth. I think you did a great job. Yours too, Dennis. Jim Patrick

Jerry, that's "Lizzie's" future owner, my grandson. He's always thought it was his own private amusement park.
Jim, that "hot rod" engine was built and painted for me by Tim Foye at Gen III.
My complete original #'s matching engine is stored on that pallet now.

That would be "Seth's one and only Ford green". I've done my duty by owning one damned Ford and I'll have no more of those silly things.

But I will work on them because they break on a regular basis and I'd starve if I'd only work on those machines that I appreciate the most - those from the best general of WWII - GENERAL MOTORS!!!!!

Seth

Jim, I'd suggest you read Trent Bogges article again. The mentioned repainted engine is in the Henry Ford museum's Model T #15,000,000, but the pictured cut away engine has most likely never been repainted. Neither has it been subjected to heat or hot oil fumes, since it doesn't run. Stored indoors since 1927, it's the best example of what M-124 Moleskin Motor Pyroxlin looks like we can find.