Projects Is a 57 Chevy 265 painted orange or another color

Building a model of a the cheapest 2 door sedan and wanting to make the engine look like a 265 if it was another color and if so what would it be,if I could find a correct era six I would be building it with it but the weather is now getting crappy so I will build it with what I have. This kit does come with the fuel injection parts and tempted to go that way but wanting to male it look like a salesmans car.

 

From What I could find early 57s until about Dec 56 265s were a Chartreuse (yellow-green) then went to orange like the 283.

 

I heard on Barret-Jackson auction that the 57 265 was blue the 283 was orange. If you can believe what they say

Jim

 

Since the roads will be a mess in the morning and I doubt I will find a yellow/green model paint I will use the yellow I have in stock if its any good.

 

I asked MR Google and it looks like the truck 265 was a blue green and found a couple pics of a yellowish green engines so yellow it will be.

 

This is the correct answer; I have a 57, 265 block in my garage/shop waiting it's turn at assembly. It's CHARTREUSE, but won't be that color after I'm done with it. ALL 1957 265's were 2 barrel engines with standard transmissions attached to them. Powerglide or Turboglide only came behind 283's, did't matter if 2 or 4 barrel carbs, dual 4 barrel carbs, or fuel injection. The 265 was the baseline, V-8 engine; the 283's were an option, as were all the induction systems they could be had with.
I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

Every 57 283 I ever owned wasn't orange. It was red. Possibly someone had repainted them? The first 57 I owned had a 265 bored .030 and it also was red.

 

Bob Falfa : [laughing] "That's pretty good. Hey, I like the color of your car there man. What's that supposed to be ? Sorta' a cross between Piss Yellow and Puke Green, ain't it ? "

American Graffiti rules.

 

Now what exhaust manifolds would the 265 have,this kit came with rams horns and non rams horn manifolds.

 

Jeff maybe this will help. https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...=326d645aa1c0a3b0fec92ab4c7de7afa&action=view

 

Hmm never heard this before, never knew they were yellow, werent all 55,56 265s orange?
...So they changed the early 57s to yellow?

 

The experts also called a C-6 Ford Transmission a turbo 400

 

I read that the 261 sixes were yellow too.

 

Here is a pretty good list of HAMB friendly chevy engine colors http://www.oldchevytrucks.com/Articles/Engine-Paint.php

 

According to that chart there was a passenger 322,the big trucks had that 322 Buick so was there a factory Buick engine option for the 57 Chevy car that is very rare.

 

That's a misprint 235 sixes were blue

 

I think the car reference is wrong from an old motor manual large trucks from 55-57 used 322s 58-59 only 322 reference is school buss.

 

Yes I don't think any 322 buicks where ever factory installed in a chevy passenger car or light duty truck. The 322 became available in truck tractors in 56. Now those buicks where popular for engine swaps they are narrow and short and will fit in a tight engine compartment.

 

I figured it was a misprint but would have been nice if it was available back then,I do have some of those old small hotrod magazines from that era where larger GM engines were being swapped in those tri-5 Chevies and if I were ever to get a real one might have to do it.

 

At least they painted all the outside parts the same color...not like the Fords (y-blocks and sixes)

 

I keep thinking my 55 needs to have a tin indian mill. Ive got a 400 with all the stick parts. I also have dual carb Nailhead. I always thought that Falfa's 55 in American Grafitti. If it was 1962 it would of had a Tin Indian Mill. likely a dual carb 421.

 

Knew a guy in high school (66-69) that always had a Tri-Five Chevrolet, with a Pontiac engine he installed, even his race cars. Usually, he had also installed a truck I-beam axle on his cars. Last car he had, that I was aware of, was an AMX wheelstander (???); his name was Stan Smith from Alderwood Manor (Lynnwood), Wa. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

My neighbor (apartment when I first got married) had a '57 Chevy 210 with a 461" Pontiac and Muncie M21. Ran Fremont drags, A/gas! Was 90 lbs. above B/gas, so stole a manhole cover and put it in the trunk, under the mat. Weighed in, B/gas. Left the manhole cover in the pits, on the ground near the return lane. (every week)
2 months later, officials at Fremont wondered where the stack of 'Iron Poker Chips' was coming from!

 

Don't know if this might help explain it, but I'm to understand that the 1956 265 was red (one year only). Supposedly 'chevy orange' was the typical color of v-8's for a number of years, besides the other exception of the chartreuse '57 265's.

 

Possibly my 57 -283's where 56 's bored out?

 

Yes, the '56 265 was a blood red, and '57 265 was chartreuse.

 

Both 265's and 283's had rams horns in 1957

Red is 1956 only, The fact that yours was .030 over could indicate it has had a coat of paint

In approx. Sept 1956 [start of 1957 production year] Chevy cast the #3731548 block. This casting was used for both the 265's painted chartreuse and the 283's painted orange
You cannot identify a 1957 265 from a 283 by casting numbers [only the stamped suffix]

You can bore a 1957 265 block out to Std 283 without bothering to sonic test [Chevy literally did that themselves]
The 3731548 block also changed the cam bearing oiling system to full flow to the lifter bores, and drip feed distributor oiling.
A 57 or later camshaft cannot be used in a 55-56 block [unless modified]

 

I have found that this Revell 57 kit shares some parts with a 56 Nomad so that is probably why the two sets of exhaust manifolds,it was a opened kit with no instructions.