One for the eBay record books

[Mr Yenko]

I second that Chad, I have also seen factory painted oil pans in the box. Only the early ones. Also notice the correct drain plug. Now a days all you see are the smaller bolts with the shoulders.
The "MOF"

[3macs1]

[ QUOTE ]
I second that Chad, I have also seen factory painted oil pans in the box. Only the early ones. Also notice the correct drain plug. Now a days all you see are the smaller bolts with the shoulders.
The "MOF"

[/ QUOTE ]

Glad you mentioned the drain plug. Hard to be sure from the picture but it looks to me that the sides are bare metal and the end orange. It would have to be masked off for that to occur. If GM did paint this pan orange would they take the time to tape off the sides of the drain plug.
King:
One thing that did cross my mind which I know we did when I worked at the dealership was we would sometimes have to install a stock room crate engine which would be painted all orange prior to installation and for display.The pan would sometimes have to be changed on these pending what car we were installing it in and the pan that came off went back into the GM box that the one we ordered came in.
That would place orange pans in original Gm boxes.

[chads454Ls6]

How about a harmonic balancer? THe survivor z i posted pics of a while back had the balancer in the box and that car had been last tagged in 79 and that was orange as well. the owner said he purchased it from a chevy dealer and threw it in the back seat and had never looked at it again until i purchased the car.

[427king]

The 427 balancers GM sells today are unpainted. Every NOS short block,block,pair of heads ive ever seen or owned were unpainted. They had yellow stenciled part #s on them so there was no intention of covering that up . Why not paint the blocks at the gm plant and motors if they are going to paint the pans.

[3macs1]

Balancers like this one Chuck. 454 Bare also as far back as 71.

[SS427]

I'll take it, er buy it!

[427king]

Rick, Its just another 1970 nos part listed that isnt for sale to you.

[SS427]

Rick, Its just another 1970 nos part listed that isnt for sale to you.

At least we know this one really existed.

[mrrec]

[ QUOTE ]
At least we know this one really existed.

[/ QUOTE ]




Dave

[nuch_ss396]

Well,

I hate to disagree with all the paint haters but
I've personally purchased BBC valve covers and taken them
out of the box ( never opened ) and they were painted orange.

If this situation exists for valve covers, why not oil pans?

Steve