I believe I saw a photo once of the painted engines being
handled on the assembly line… It had the bellhousing on the engine when
it was painted.
Ted Dudley pointed out though: “I can tell you that
the 1957 & 1958 Chrysler & Imperials with 392 Hemi's had Non-Painted
bellhousings and adaptor plates.” Maybe they handled the hemi engine
differently for painting?
-Dave
From: a57fury@xxxxxxx
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Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007
2:52 PM
To: Dave
Stragand; L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] TRANSMISSION
COLORS
I agree with Dave. Bellhousing is engine color and the trans was
left bare. The only time I saw the
trans rust was when I sand blasted it and left
it to the humidity
-----Original Message-----
From: dave.stragand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] TRANSMISSION COLORS
I have seen the bellhousing painted the
block color, and the cast iron left bare. If anyone has seen different,
please let us all know.