Re: [FWDLK] Masterpieces in Overspray

[Brent Burger <cgico@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "eastern sierra Adj Services"


> OK, Wayne, so the CHRY engines got dis-
> respected by the painters.
>
> My favorite part of our cars is the trunk areas, which  got
> "colored-by-accident" , by virtue of
> OEM primer, plus whatever body-color(s) happened to fall onto the trunk
> openings.
>
> Poor old trunk hinges received an after-thought of color, in the
> general-direction of the body/
> trunk painter's "aim" .
>
> On Dodges, the trunk's gas fuel filler tube got a sort of small,
> localized 'tattoo'-paint-mark overspray, from the trunk hinge .
>
> The undercarriage got a misting of body-overspray, which soon
> disappeared, with the rusting-out of the floor pans.
>
> Over on the FWDLK website threads, I posted a pic of a still-surviving
> PLY , with OEM overspray on its non-undercoated undercarriage, and
> several pics of OEM trunk "NON-finish" appearance.
>
> Neil Vedder

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  By the time I started climbing into FL trunk in the mid-70's, the Seattle
elements were usually well at work erasing all indications of what had
originally been there - typically very crusty or rusted out altogether.

  An oldtimer who owned a 58 Belvedere told me he bought it from the
original owner in 1966 after gassing it up and servicing it at a corner
station for years.  We were talking about rust, as his car had scarcely ever
turned a well on a wet street and he told me that when he started working on
that car (before he owned it) that he was blown away when he poked his head
in the trunk and there was nothing but bare metal anywhere, but for some
light overspray here and there.  He commented that by this time, most FL
cars were going to the wrecking yards after being notorious rusters, so this
struck him as being a problem and proceeded to get permission to paint the
trunk interior with something to prevent the same thing from happening.
This car was a super nice, unmolested original, ....  I believe still in
pristine original paint in the early 1990's when I last saw it.

  Brent

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