Engine

Valve covers are Rampart Red for some or all of these engines, pre 1967. Gold was used on some engines in 1967. Alamosa Aqua was used on most 68-71 AMC V8s. AMC Blue on many starting in late 1971.
The 250 V-8 is believed to be the same gray as used on the 196 L-head engines
Different sources give different paint codes. Possibly used as dealer service paint of slightly different color.
All 1971 California V-8's and AMC engines used in International Harvester vehicles were red in color to distinguish them from other engines on the assembly line as California engines required different emission controls. Note also that International Harvester painted their AMC engines red/orange starting in 1972 for Scout, Scout II, Travelall and smaller school buses. If you happen into a salvage yard or junk yard and see a IH anything from 1972-80, pop the hood and see if it is indeed a AMC power plant, which is totally different looking than IH's engines of the 345V8 and 392V8. If not sure, crawl under the engine and check the block size cast under either side underneath the motor mounts.
All 68-70 390 engines had the chrome dress up kit, regardless of model.
If you need engine paint, please contact Kennedy American, American Parts Depot or Eastwood Products. They sell cans of correct years engines paints.

Interior notes:
AMC painted a vast majority of their interiors. Many times you can pull off a dash overlay, or pillar post or hard or soft molding only to discover it started it's life in Kenosha another color. You will commonly find AMC painted to match: red, tan, green, blue, silver interiors. This was done at the factory as it saved major costs instead of having those items molded in all these colors. You can take your interior paint code to just about any automotive paint store and they can mix you a batch. There are sprayers called Prevar that are easy to use and leave a great coat, ask about them. You can also have the paint mixed by a paint supplier like Tower Paints

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Instead of paying ridiculous prices for paint chip charts; whether online or vendor; try printing one of these! Normally they print out very close to original colors, although this will depend on your printer. I have listed several paint sources for same model year as to compare codes; and shades, as AMC used a variety of different paint suppliers thru the years.
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These print out roughly the same size as originals, but are to be used for reference as stated below to help the auto paint supplier mix your paint properly. Depending upon your printer and configurations thereof, they usually print out to roughly 8 1/2 X 11, or about the size of a normal page of paper. A high resolution Canon Scanner was used by me to scan these and bring out the text, color and image.

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Armed with these codes, you can print them out and take to any local automotive paint supplier in your area for them to mix up when painting you car!!!!!! Good luck!!!
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CODES ARE AS FOLLOWS FOR AMC PAINT SUPPLIER
MARTIN SENOUR PAINTS
This code is found immediately next to the paint color
A=Acrylic Lacquer
S=Synthol Enamel
*=Acrylic Enamel

For All 1929 thru 1968 NASH and RAMBLER and for all AMERICAN MOTORS years 1960 thru 1988 NOT listed on my own files here, or to compare colors with my originals, please click on the Auto Color Library banner below!