Thank you Troy, I appreciate the compliments, they look quite different without a flash BTW, here's a shot of the same carbs before I shipped them in natural light.
Here's my opinion on engine paint. I really don't want to start a debate on Moparts over this, please take it for what it's worth, my opinion.
There was no "Early" or "Late" Street Hemi Orange. There was only "Race Hemi" and "Street Hemi" orange.
Race Hemi Orange was used on all Max Wedges and Hemi's (Race & Street) well into, if not completely through 1968 production. The color was reformulated and became "Street Hemi" orange from (possibly late 1968) and on.
What I think has added allot of confusion to this scenario is that even though the same formula was used, paint shading varied amoung both colors from batch to batch and plant to plant during production. Restoration pioneers like Roger Gibson, and recent arrivals like Dave Walden, took note and special care to have color matches done to surviving original paint examples that they had and found that none of thier matches quite matched currently available (call it reproduction if you will) Race or Street Hemi Orange paints, or paints that they had mixed using original formulas. This could be attributed to many things like modern paint componants, or small environmental factors that can factor into paint shading. Anyway, the bottom line is that exact matching an original sample is certainly "correct" and acceptable, that doesn't mean that one original sample is now the new standard, it just means it's right for that particular engine. Franks "Eary Street Hemi Orange" is correct appearing because it's basically just one possible shade of "Race Hemi" orange that he matched from an original surviving car (Cora's mauve 66 Hemi Charger I believe). Same goes for Dave's 440 "Street Hemi" orange painted 440.
Scott, do you have time to do the carb on my Dart?
