Re: [FWDLK] [Chrysler300] The Silence of the Trunks....

[Terry & Andree Hoeman <tehoema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aw come on guys--the trunk insulation was put in the trunks as they were 
assembled and then the trunks were painted.  The liners being a soft 
absorbent material soaked the paint in and showed some combination of the 
body color and black.  That is why rich's liner looked tan instead of 
Platinum.  Probably mostly black before it was repainted though.

Chrysler or any other manufacturer mask it off before painting the car??? 
On a production vehicle .  Come on now.

Just went and looked at three different parts cars which are here and it is 
obvious that all were painted when the trunk lid was and two are near black 
with some slight signs of paint while one actually shows some strong 
shantung green color.  Must be due to the metallic's in it.  The paint will 
just soak into the mat until the thing has been painted many times.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Barber" <c300@xxxxxxx>
To: "'eastern sierra Adj Services'" <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx>; 
<L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'Chrysler300'" <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:44 AM
Subject: [Chrysler300] The Silence of the Trunks....


> Good observations and questions.  How, and why?
>
> The sound deadener in the trunk lid of my '55 Chrysler 300 was painted 
> (very
> poorly) by the restorer for the former owner.  And it looks bad.  I'm 
> told,
> and have color pictures of this, that the proper color of the sound 
> deadener
> is tan.  To return it to its strange original configuration, I'd have to
> remove the visible parts and cut in new pieces.  Or find an original
> configuration "Platinum" (Chrysler's greenish tint white) trunk lid 
> without
> rust and with nice sound deadener.  Both are low priority for me at this
> time.
>
> But, just in case, does anyone have a source for that tan sound deadener
> material.  I did try a little paint stripper on the liner and that didn't
> work as the gel just saturated the sound deadener and everything sort of
> mushed together.
>
> Rich Barber
> Brentwood, CA
> 1955 C-300
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Forward Look Mopar Discussion List
> [mailto:L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of eastern sierra Adj
> Services
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:30 PM
> To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [FWDLK] The Silence of the Trunks....
>
> Here's a question, that I've never been able to figure out:
>
> Forwardlook cars have differing amounts of asphaltic-sound-deadener
> having been sandwiched between the trunk 'skin', and the inner trunk
> stiffener-supports.
>
> PLY's sometimes only have thin strips inserted in alignment with the
> stiffeners. Other models have only partial-deadener-coverage,  on the
> "exposed" under-side of the trunk skin.  Other models (like my 57 Dodge)
> have full deadener-coverage of the underside of the trunk skin.
>
> The previous is not my question, only an observation.
>
> My question involves this : the asphaltic sound deadener is installed
> when the trunk skin is "mechanically" attached to the inner stiffener.
>
> Then, the  outer trunk skin, and the underside (which, in L.A.-built
> cars  was painted,  not in body-color, but,  in that  mish-mash
> varying-gray shades of residual-paint)  were painted.  On EVERY car I've
> seen, where the sound deadener has been (partially) separated  from the
> trunk skin, the 'exposed' skin shows no sign of receiving any paint,
> other than primer, which confirms that the deadener material WAS
> present,  when the underside was painted.
>
> FINALLY, my question:  how, and why, did all the assembly plants manage
> to paint the underside of the trunks, without getting ANY (significant)
> amount of over-spray ONTO the deadener material????
>
> Why would 'they' bother to mask-off the deadener, when spraying the
> underside of the trunk??
>
> I've never found an "original" (but PLENTY of
> "restored" ) cars, which show  evidence of having the deadener be
> painted (either body-color, OR  that 'universal-gray' color)
>
> Which brings "us" to exhibit  'A', below, which is a 1956 DeSoto, which
> DOES show evidence of sloppy OEM paint over-spray/dribbles on the trunk
> deadener.
>
> Some trunk deadeners I've seen do have a minor amount of paint-slop on
> them, but this car seems to have as bad a case of Modern Art on it, as
> any underside I've ever seen (scroll down to the trunk detail-pic).
>
> I just can't figure out why (apparently) the deadener was masked-off,
> when the trunk underside was painted!
>
> --back on SUN.
>
> Neil Vedder
>
>
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