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Paint, Trim & Chrome => Paint => Topic started by: cwmcobra on September 23, 2016, 12:02:10 PM

Title: Distributor paint
Post by: cwmcobra on September 23, 2016, 12:02:10 PM

Should the distributor be painted engine color or left as-cast?  The distributor I have is Buick green, but is not original to the car.

Thanks,

Chuck

Title: Re: Distributor paint
Post by: Buick_65 on September 23, 2016, 12:27:26 PM

It is my understanding they were unpainted.

Title: Re: Distributor paint
Post by: Mark Ascher on September 23, 2016, 01:55:18 PM

I remember Carmen telling me they were black, so he painted it that way along with doing a Pertronix conversion.

Mark

Title: Re: Distributor paint
Post by: cwmcobra on September 23, 2016, 03:43:03 PM

I didn't ask Carmen about color, but the distributor I bought from him with the Pertronix magnetic pickup conversion was engine green.  I talked with Loren and he pulled an unadulterated distributor from his parts stash and confirmed that it was bare iron.  So I painted mine cast iron gray.  Right or wrong, it's got paint on it :-)

Thanks for the info!

Chuck