Original paint

Satin or semi gloss black, not sure which and it does continue down the inside area of the quarter windows.

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Thanks for the reply, I was thinking along those lines. I neglected to include in my post the question as to what color the under side of the rear deck was painted in an original car?
Thanks again

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I neglected to include in my post the question as to what color the under side of the rear deck was painted in an original car?

flat/satin black on my original paint 72 pre-L.

Thanks Garth for the reply,
Not to beat the subject to death(which I am proficient at), I noticed on one of your car photos, ares of the engine bay where the black top finish was peeling off revealing what appears to be yellow paint. Now thinking my original post should have also included if on an original car was the engine bay area first painted in the body color, then top coated with the black finish, which I believe was in the undercoat family?

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I noticed on one of your car photos, ares of the engine bay where the black top finish was peeling off revealing what appears to be yellow paint. Now thinking my original post should have also included if on an original car was the engine bay area first painted in the body color, then top coated with the black finish, which I believe was in the undercoat family?

Yes, the whole car was shot in body color first, then satin black sprayed over the yellow at the front of the engine bay and under the roof, along the side edges of the engine compartment where the dzus fasteners for the tub are located, and also on the engine compartment side of the rear tail light panel. The undercoating was applied to the rest of the engine bay directly atop the yellow paint.

You can see some of the yellow showing through the black at the front of the engine compartment.


The dzus fastener strip of satin black is plainly obvious on the left side of the engine compartment in this picture.


Engine compartment side of tail light panel after I repainted it. Tip of the day: Aluminum foils is excellent for masking small or unusually shaped items such as wiring as you merely wrap and squeeze it onto whatever you want to mask.


I used the POR-15 "PowerLiner" truck bed liner kit to re-coat my engine compartment where it used to have undercoating, although I did not maintain the satin black strip at the top sides of the engine compartment but sprayed the bed liner all the way to the edges. My dzus fasteners will be reinstalled directly onto the bed liner.

Thanks again Garth!
Nice photos and much appreciated. Just to be clear, the factory used satin black on the underside of the roof and down to and including or excluding the removable sheet metal shields flanking the engine screen and the engine side of the tail lamps panel.Does the satin black stop and the undercoating begin at the forward vertical seam of the inner wheel house panel?

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Just to be clear, the factory used satin black on the underside of the roof and down to and including or excluding the removable sheet metal shields flanking the engine screen and the engine side of the tail lamps panel.

Yes. Including the sheet metal shields flanking the engine screen, although I haven't compared them closely to see if the shade/sheen is the same on them.

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Does the satin black stop and the undercoating begin at the forward vertical seam of the inner wheel house panel?

Yes. This edge/seam in the picture below (where it's yellow) was all covered in undercoating originally.

Thanks again Garth!
That pretty much clears this all up for me. Really appreciate your over the top indulgence on this subject.
Vince

Hey Garth,
I neglected to ask if the underside of the hood was the same color as the body. I am 90% certain it was that on my 72.
Thanks again.

I like the trunk bed coating. I want to do that in the future on the next one.

On my car, the inside of the engine deck lid was painted flat black.

The underside of the front trunk was painted body color.

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On my car, the inside of the engine deck lid was painted flat black.

The underside of the front trunk was painted body color.

Mine is the same.

And thanks for the compliment on the bed-liner. It came out better than I had hoped.

The original paint on both deck lids on my '71 were painted flat black.

John