Believe it or not I just Scored a Brand New, in the original 1981 GM box, Hood. Part #3837463. Not wanting to paint it incorrectly I need some advice as to the under side painting etc. The Stinger is easy, it's the little stuff I'm concerned with. Thanks, Al W.
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Re: 67 BB Hood Painting
Good find!
I would look in the TIM, but the hood and the stinger is the most important for paint, the under side is the details of the hood.
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Soryy! TIM? I'm still in the Dark! Al W.Comment
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Re: 67 BB Hood Painting
The underside of the hood is painted blackout. I used Krylon 1613 semiflat black. To paint the edges you need to visualize the hood is installed on the body and you are painting it while held in the open position. The edges were masked along the sides and rear but the leading edge (near headlights) and area adjacent to the hinges were not.
The stinger should be painted with the hood in place. I've seen many that were masked as 2 pieces (hood not installed) and the paint lines don't line up because of the geometry involving the opening between the hood and front valence was not considered when laying out the masking. Many paint lines also take an abrupt change rather than a smooth transistion in this area.
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Blackout paint; I'm confused
Steve,
I'm confused by your first photo. I see blue paint on the left and blue on the right. The only place I see blackout out to the very edge of the hood is under where the hinge would shaddow the edge lip. Am I describing it the way a judge would expect to see?
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GaryComment
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Re: Blackout paint; I'm confused
Gary, the flat blue surface is typically not blacked out except in the hinge area where it was difficult to mask. A couple of photos that might answer your question..... the blackout should be on the 1" vertical surface on the sides and rear of the hood. The area near the headlights would not necessarily have blackout on that 1" surface as it was pointed "down" when the hood was blacked out as the hood was held open.Comment
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A follow-up
Steve,
So does the non-blue section on the lower lip (not the vertical part) of your image: correspond to where there was no body color and also no blackout? I.E., the non-blue section is bare, unpainted fiberglass?
GaryComment
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Re: 67 BB Hood Painting
TIM = Technical Information Manual & Judging Guide.Comment
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Re: A follow-up
Mine is blue but with the hood installed on the car during factory painting this was a difficult location to paint so the blue would be poorly covered to non-existent across the front.Comment
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Re: A follow-up
Imagine you are a UAW worker and you are just trying to get to the end of the shift and you are faced with this. A hood standing there in front of you that you are supposed to shoot black on the underside. It has a mask that fits over the edge everywhere except right down there at the hinge. You dont give a rats whether you get full coverage or not, heck, you cant see it from home anyway. So you hold that gun up there and hit it. Now look what is in the way, the radiator support. Do you care? heck no, that aint no problem, you would have to stand on your head to see that and we aint doing no concourse job. OH crap, I was supposed to do the radiator support too. Well thank goodness its a St. Louis job and the support is already black. I`ll se ya after break.
The hoods had no primer, paint, or black on the leading edge in front of the radiator support, except maybe some spattering of overspray. OH yea, and all of them were done just alike. RIGHT.
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Re: A follow-up
Here is an original.
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Thanks Steve and Wayne *NM*
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