Outdoor Power Equipment and Small Engines - Origional briggs engine color?

I have a 1977 Lawnmower distributed by Coast to coast. It has a briggs & stratton 9 CID 3 1/2 HP engine on it. What was the origional engine color for this year? right now it is black, and I think it is the origional engine. It has a metal Pulsa-Jet carb, and does not have easyspin. thanks in advance!

Jon

Hello Jon!

I am not familiar with the name brand you mentioned. It sounds like it may be a store brand name, of which there are/were hundreds, or thousands. Most were made by a small group of manufacturers, like falls/sycamore, Murray, MTD, and AYP/roper. The majority of briggs engines from that time were originally painted black.

Thanks, cheese. Coast to Coast went out of business, or was bought by another company in the mid nineties. I think they were only a west coast company, and I noticed your from Georgia, so maybe they didn't have C&C over on the east coast.

How about the engines' model, type and code #'s and maybe I can help you out.

Sorry it took so long to reply, I have been working a lot lately.

The cowl that is on it is not the origional one. The cowl is from a '79, so it probably wont help to give you the numbers, but here they are anyway.

92502 0817-04 79072625

You're right, these numbers will do no good since they aren't original. I too am not familiar with Coast to Coast, so it will be difficult to say what the original color was. But I will say, back in '70's, unless you were a big name OEM, you would have to stick with the standard color of Briggs engines - black. And having been in this industry for over 20 years and having worked on most every brand made, I dare say this is the case here...go with black unless someone with knowledge of this brand says otherwise.

I just saw a coast to coast mower. Strange, never heard of one until your question...and then I see one. It was newer than the '70s, but was a MTD product painted yellow with black accents and engine. The yellow of the frame was close to school-bus yellow. The engine was just a regular black engine like found on most equipment.