One for the eBay record books

[HiPerf]

There should be lots of these pans out there,it was used by many drag racer's. I don't know why more have not seen them. The part # is 14091356,I missed a digit you can still buy the pan today. Here is an other picture.

[chads454Ls6]

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No pans came painted orange from gm . It needs a trap door,and it shouldnt have 2 "step downs" only one. Just another case of "if its listed as such,it must be one".Also the drain plug would be offset in the back not on the side , this one will spill oil on the steering linkage everytime the poor new owner tries to change his oil. Then again if he went for a 1000 wrong pan, he probably doesnt change his own oil either.

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Chuck,yes they did

[agtw31]

WOW,ONLY A $1.40 TO SHIP AN OIL PAN..

[Rainer]

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Chuck,yes they did



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Chad - did you buy this pan directly from GM?

[chads454Ls6]

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Chuck,yes they did



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Chad - did you buy this pan directly from GM?

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No i did not,a friend of mine has owned this pan since the 70s and has another just like it that is painted as well

[3macs1]

Sorry but I cannot let this one die.I did my initial mechanic training in 1976 in a gm dealership where I continued to work until the early 80's and I know for sure in those years there were no orange oil pans coming in over the parts counter.Black yes and bare yes.I have samples still of those
Last night a good friend who I trained under when I worked at the Gm dealership was home on vacation and this guy is BBC so bad he even has the cross flags on his upper arm.Mechanic since the late 50's and was a GM mechanic from 69 until probally 95.His comments same as the King no way did GM supply a orange pan over the counter and if Chad has one it was painted by someone before he got it, in the box or not. He said that he spent a lot of time in the factory back then and the orange painting was done in a area where individual parts didnot even get a opportunity to pass through just the engines.
He picked up the phone and called another GM mechanic who was at the dealersip in 64 until retirement and he said the same thing. Never did he see a orange pan coming in over the counter.
Usually when I see a picture that is it for me but the fact this pan came from someone else there is a chance it could have been painted since I know two of mine in the box were primed after the fact since they were starting to rust being supplied by Gm bare.
Don't know Chad what to think right now
Any more 60's GM mechanics out there to chime in.

[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"

[427king]

Joe, There are a few of us guilty of painting a part, and then returning it to gm if it was later defective,or wrong application. The last year run of corvette sidepipe covers were all seconds that were returned and some were even installed first.Ive had a few hundered oil pans in the past 20 years,ive never had one that wasnt either bare or black.Timing covers,valve covers as well....Im wondering why gm would paint something a color that wouldnt match everyones hue of chevy orange. Every tin part ive had from gm was always rusty too, thats why they went to black inside AND out.

[3macs1]

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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"

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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.