1970 buick 350 engine colour

[JAMES OWENS]

I am a little confused about the engine colour of my 70 Buick 350-4bbl. All the research I ve done says it should be red, yet the whole engine is grey? This engine came out of a 70 Buick Lesabre, I don t know if that makes a difference and I have not found a "engine colour chart" that is specific to the Buick Engines. ALL the numbers/codes on the block / Intake and cylinder heads are all correct for this engine, yet the colour seems wrong. -Thanks JIM

[65specialconvert]

Red is correct.Never seen gray in any car.

[bob k. mando]

http://www.classicbuicks.com/Engine_spray_paints.html

i've also got block colors on the Engine ID list but ... i copied that info from various places. can't vouch for accuracy:
http://www.teambuick.com/reference/ident_eng_visual.php

also, there are some years where the Riv has it's own engine colors. you can read through the Riv history to pull that info out but i don't think they've isolated the data into a graph:
http://rivowners.org/features/evolution/index.html

[JAMES OWENS]

This weekend I will take some pictures -with all the Numbers / Codes. It is 100 % a Buick engine, just can't figure out why it would be grey. And --to me --It does NOT look as if its been repainted. Thanks JIM

[JAMES OWENS]

I talked to guy from whom I bought the engine. What he told me was, that the engine was totally rebuilt sometime around 1985-86. At that time, the buick dealership did not have the correct
"Buick red" in stock, so the owner had the dealership spray it grey. It took awhile ,but I finally got the answer to my question.

[thepartsman]

I talked to guy from whom I bought the engine. What he told me was, that the engine was totally rebuilt sometime around 1985-86. At that time, the buick dealership did not have the correct
"Buick red" in stock, so the owner had the dealership spray it grey. It took awhile ,but I finally got the answer to my question.

From the Buick dealers perspective they apparently were overstocked with grey....Buick red was discontinued in Sept of '81 and
was replaced soon after with GM corporate blue. Later in the '80s the V6 motors we got in were black. Go figure.....

[JAMES OWENS]

I had me confused for awhile, but now it all makes sense.