Mack Engine Color?

[Aaronw]

I was just wondering about the gold used on Mack engines. The intructions say gold, and I've seen some builds with gold engines that look great but look more like something you would see in a custom car not a heavy truck. I've only driven one Mack, a 1976 CF that had a Maxidine engine, but I do not remember it being in your face bright gold, granted it was 16 years old and had seen a lot of use when I drove it so may have been buried in greese and grime.

So fresh from the factory are the engines bright gold or are they a bit more subdued? I have a couple of Macks moving up towards getting built so thought I'd better start doing some research.

[mackinac359]

Aaron

I'm looking at a 1973 Mack Western COE brochure and the Maxidyne is bright gold. The alternator is dull silver, the starter is matt black. The fan is black, the fuel filter is red, the fuel filter is green, the engine mounted twin lube filters and matching gold, the coolant conditioner filter is blue. The brochure also shows the transmission as being gold.

Tim

[Jim B]

The pics I've seen of them, they've been sort of a dull gold as oposed to jewelry gold (if that makes any sense). I've heard that ALCLAD Gold is a close match.

This might help: http://modeltrucks.com.au/page20.html or it might confuse you even more!

Good luck.

[Aaronw]

Yep that helped, that is quite the fancy motor, just hard to believe it goes in a truck. I'm kind of surprised Mack didn't offer a clear acrylic hood to show it off.

[Jim B]

It would sort of look like the car in "Grease" with the glass hood! Immagine how hard that would be to keep clean?

[mackinac359]

The photo of the Mack engine in gold is the same one that is in the brochure I mentioned.

Tim

[Jim B]

Is is my immagination, or does the Signature 600 look orange?