eng color

[retroguy]

I'm building a 66 merc. park lane with a 427 super marauder

It's an AMT kit but has no color chart,so does anyone know the colors for ths engine...

Edited November 1, 2010 by retroguy

[my66s55]

Ford engine blue. My daily driver is a 1966 Mercury S55 convertible with a 428. The battery also mounts just behind the grill on the passenger of the fender

[retroguy]

Ford engine blue. My daily driver is a 1966 Mercury S55 convertible with a 428. The battery also mounts just behind the grill on the passenger of the fender

Thanks for the info but your engine is different than the 427 sm.The 427 has dual 4's

and a midrise intake manifold.I found one pic that only shows the manifold color.

If nothig else I'll use Ford blue and a metalizer for the trany...

[gary]

Here is a link to the 66 Mercury brochure. The 427 wasn't offered in '66 according to the brochure and other references I found, but was in '65 with 2x4-barrel (I thought that was just a dealer option, but apparently not). The base Parklane engine in '66 was the 410 cu.in. The Super Marauder was the 428 cu.in, single 4-barrel. The brochure shows the engine in red and black. Like Doug shows, I thought all Ford engines in '66 were blue (brochure artistic license?).

The AMT kit box art, 2004 re-issue, shows a stock single 4 barrel air cleaner, but doesn't show it in the instructions. My kit is open but still sealed in the bag - I couldn't see either the single 4 barrel manifold or the stock air cleaner, just the 2x4 manifold and air cleaner.

http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Mercury/1966_Mercury/1966_Mercury_Full_Size_Brochure/1966%20Mercury%20Full%20Size-30-31.html

[my66s55]

You are absolutely correct Gary. The 1966 Mercury did not come with a 427. I didn't want to get into all that but, since you did, I will elaborate. The names Marauder(410) and Super Marauder(428) where given only to the engines. There was no model named as such. Instead, the name S55 was used as a model along with Monteray, Montclair and Parklane. It is correct that the brochure shows the engines as black, but most people paint them Ford engine blue.

Below is my engine bay.

This is a side view. Note the S55 emblem on the rear quarter panel.