Are the hood hinges gold cad plated or body color for an original car?

Mine are body paint colored. That's not to say that they may or may not be cad plated under the paint, but mine are metallic blue, like the rest of the body.

If you are looking at those hinges on eBay, they are probably the correct replacement part. Wouldn't surprise me to find them cad plated, but correctly, they were painted along with the body.

I media blasted original (?) body color off of 1972 hinges to reveal Zinc Dichromate (gold Cad)

So my guess is ... Both