What was the Last Painted Engine?

‘72 AMC Gremlin
‘72 AMC Gremlin

*Factory painted engine in a production car. I’ll let everyone define what production car means.

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Subaru still paints the aluminum intake manifold wrinkle red on the STI, and started doing the same on the manual transmission models of the BRZ/86 in 2017 (which now gets an aluminum unit). The block stays bare aluminum, however.

As far as completely painted engine blocks go, I don’t know the history there. I’m open for some enlightenment!

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