Are the openings in the fender louvers to be masked before painting?
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Re: 67 painting
Randy:
If your body is on a dolly, then the answer is no. If your body is installed on the chassis, then the answer is yes.
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Re: 67 painting
If this masking is to keep overspray from going into the engine compartment, I would go out a limb here (midyears are almost totally alien to me) and say it never happened at the factory because they knew the engine compartment would get blacked out later and they weren't wasting time and materials masking something that didn't need to be masked. In fact, I doubt that ANYTHING was masked when the body was painted. "Masks" were used later during the black-out process, but these were not tape and paper masking.
On the other hand, unless you are doing a frame-off restoration and painting the body OFF the chassis like the factory did, then masking the louver openings might be a good idea to save you additional work and cleanup to fix the overspray. In this case, the masking will have nothing to do with correctness...only an intelligent decision to reduce your work.Comment
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Re: 67 painting
Thank you for the response. There is a piece of fiberglass behind the rear louver opening that would have body color on it if it was not masked during the painting of the body. Do you suppose this piece was left with the body color or blacked out? If it was blacked out, the surrounding exterior surface would have had to be masked to keep the black out paint off.Comment
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Re: 67 painting
A recent post on this midyear topic, which I can't find in the archives, was answered by someone who knew what they were talking about. The answer was that the area behind the last louver was blacked out unless it was a black car; if it was a black car nothing was done.Comment
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Re: 67 painting
Think about it... if the car were white and this area was not masked and painted during the blackout process, it would look like pretty shabby workmanship...Comment
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Re: 67 painting
Thank you.
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