My unrestored 56 Dodge has the firewall painted the same as the middle
section of the body. The front fenders, inner fenders, and core support are
all painted separately before assembly. The undersides of the fenders are
the same color as the outside, but dead flat. The inner fenders are black on
both sides, but are not painted. The material looks and feels like a tar
based coating, but thin like a paint coating. It is soft and easily
scratched, but will not chip like paint. My guess is it doesn't chip from
stones and may dampen sounds slightly, so that is why it was used there. It
comes off with just a swipe of a rag dampened with lacquer thinner. As one
would expect, tar has little shine to it. Semi-flat black was a close match.
The core support looks the same.
Dave Homstad
56 Dodge D500
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Subject: [FWDLK] Old Paint
Jim Mikolajczak PM'ed me, to say, correctly, that back-in-th-day, the
factory applied enamel paint, to our cars, and the probably lower grade
gloss black used on the inner fenders & core support would not have
'shined' as much as todays' synthetic formulations.
IMHO, semi-gloss/satin finish is what was applied onto the generators
(whose end-plates should not be painted black, but, should be in
'natural' finish--right??)
Neil Vedder
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