On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Cliff wrote:
> I removed one rear fender last night whereby I had
> to cut through a lot of seam sealer,
> I am wondering when I paint the car, I plan to
> paint all components off the car and reassemble.
> >From what I have read on the list this is the
> correct way. My question is seam sealer is needed
> especially along the trunk and down the rear
> valance (near rear lights). What is the best way
> to go
Shoot the fenders off the car to make sure that there's paint on the
mating surfaces... then assemble and add seam sealer. and paint the whole
car.
> What was done when these cars were painted at the
> factory? Were the 4 inner wheel wells painted
> and or undercoated black originally? I have seen
> cars where the inner wells are body color no
> undercoat?
The inner fenders were the color of the primer from the primer bath. The
cars were assembled (fenders on etc.) then cars were "dipped" in a bath of
primer (sort of like "Charlie's red river of paint", if you recall the old
Ford ads from the '60's). Then the cars were painted.
On every parts car I've taken apart, there's no hint of body color in the
fender wells. Of course my sample is limited to 4.5 TR6's and my all
original car (original owner too), so I could be wrong.
:-)
Many shops cannot dip your car in paint, so they paint the inner fenders
and backsides of the "wings" body color.
> Thanks in advance to all you out there that have
> been a great help on this list.
> Cliff
> 73 TR6
regards,
rml
TR6 CF14111U (orignal owner)
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