73 coupe with blue engine

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Mar 10, 2010 | 08:10 PM

fish6258

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73 coupe with blue engine

Any ideas. Why would a 73 corvette with matching numbers have the engine painted blue. I thought that year were all orange. T:ohis is a standard 350 L48

Mar 10, 2010 | 08:22 PM

GREGG-73

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Any ideas. Why would a 73 corvette with matching numbers have the engine painted blue. I thought that year were all orange. T:ohis is a standard 350 L48

Maybe the owner had the engine rebuilt and grabbed the wrong paint can? Or, preferred Blue, as opposed to Orange? Who know's????

Are you absolutely sure this is a correct engine....how about a photo of the stamp pad...or just the numbers off of it? One thing is for sure...it didn't leave the factory like that!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay in tune...

Mar 10, 2010 | 09:04 PM

enroberts

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Originally Posted by fish6258

Any ideas. Why would a 73 corvette with matching numbers have the engine painted blue. I thought that year were all orange. T:ohis is a standard 350 L48

maybe the last owner forgot they owned a chevy...not a ford!

Mar 10, 2010 | 09:15 PM

crvtownr

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did you check the casting no/date code or just the pad when you say matching numbers? just curious.

Mar 11, 2010 | 09:26 PM

markids77

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The block which came with my 1977 which has the correct VIN derivative on it is black. I suspect a PO hated blue?

Mar 11, 2010 | 09:51 PM

stpman

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Stay in tune...

The guy who built the SB for my 74 painted it blue because he had a 77 and thought they were all blue

Mar 11, 2010 | 10:20 PM

larryg3

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The guy who built the SB for my 74 painted it blue because he had a 77 and thought they were all blue

should have been orange!!!

Mar 11, 2010 | 10:42 PM

Mad Vette

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Chevrolet changed engine colors in 1977 to GM corporate blue due to the fact that Chevrolet engines were showing up in Oldsmobile's and they needed to have a and standard engine painted the same color.