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« on: January 07, 2012, 06:51:43 PM »
David Thanks for posting the links for the documents that kind of information is a tremendous asset to us restoring cars. I researched allot of original cars trying to understand how my car was originally painted. The assembly information that JohnZ provided really answered a lot of my questions but then I looked at other clues and other cars and had more unanswered questions. 35 years ago I worked for a shop that had more original low milage original Corvettes & muscle cars come thru the doors than any other shop that I can remember at that time. This ingrained me with a believe that originality & restoring it as it left the factory is most important to my restoration.
My car came out of Colorado, was covered underneath with oil, grease, and sandy dirt. All of witch saved the bottom of the car finish. After cleaning it I found really nice original BLACK paint. At the front of the tunnel and low on the firewall I see grey primer misting back OVER the black paint but just 6-12" back on the bottom of the floor. The firewall blackout paint is sprayed over the grey primer above this area. This same grey primer was found inside the car and under the vinyl top. Apparent that the factory didn't paint the entire roof if it was getting a vinyl top. In the trunk area I found red oxide primer on the top of the rear seat panel and near the lock support. At that point I didn't know how I was going the paint the bottom of the car. After cleaning I believe the bottom was painted black, the outside surfaces and in the trunk were painted red oxide primer, then the topside painted panels, and inside overspray, were painted grey filler primer. I will post a couple pictures showing what I found on a Norwood car built Nov 1968.
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