Mid year trailing arm shims

[Douglas D.]

I am doing a frame off restoration of a 1965 coupe that I have owned since 1971. The car has been a California car all of its life. The issue is the rear trailing arm shims. Most of the discussion on this board always refers to the original shims as being plain steel with two round holes, not slots. The shims on my car are to the best of my knowledge original to the car and have the two holes but have evidence of semi gloss black paint on all the 1/8 and ¼ inch thick shims and no paint on the .020 thin shims. The shims have a mfg. mark of a large “V.” Has anyone else found similar evidence of paint?

[John G.]

Re: Mid year trailing arm shims

The two hole trailing arm shims that I recently removed (bushing replacement) from my '64 are original to the car. These showed some rust (CA car) but no evidence of any paint.

John

[Barbara S.]

Re: Mid year trailing arm shims

I removed my two hole shims a few months ago (East Texas car until I bought it last May). There was some light surface rust but no paint on mine either.

Hope this helps.
Tony