This is what I've used. I can't say how close it is to original, never having seen the original in person, but I love the color.fulsizjeep wrote:Seymour EN-66
Maybe it's just the pic, but the paint I've got looks way more like the engine on the left. The one on the right looks more like Ford blue to me.Nikkormat wrote:This picture doesn't capture the sheen of the paint, but it shows the difference in shades. The engine in front of the white cherokee is the later color while the engine in front of the orange cherokee is Seymour EN66.
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My understanding too. The changeover was 1974-ish. I owned a California-delivery 1973 CJ-5 with a 304 and it had the metallic blue color. I also owned a 1975 California-delivery CJ-6 with a 258, and it was the solid teal color. My current '75 49-states CJ-6 with a 304 also has remnants of the solid teal color.HeavyMetalThunder_81 wrote:From my understanding there are two different shades of AMC blue. An early shade (EN66, the metallic one) and then a later shade (EN75, the flatter teal color). I'm not sure what year they changed colors but there are two distinct shades of AMC blue.
This resembles my mental picture of the through-73 metallic blue, but the pictured color is somewhat more intense and too glossy. Part of the intensity difference likely due to the glossier base of modern paints (ie urethanes vs acrylic enamel). And I presume engine paint did not get a lot of attention at the factory; likely they were sprayed to an even color - nearly dry - not to a wet gloss.az chip wrote:I am partial to the AMC color that guy sells on eBay.
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Yes, AM-66 it's what they sold directly to AMC, EN-66 is what they sell now to anyone.az chip wrote:My paint says EN-66.