I'm completely certain my car had original paint. When I pulled up the rear
package shelf vinyl, I don't recall seeing any rectangular spots but there
were several faint Japanese characters written in white chalk or grease
pencil. I assumed they were from the assembly process. I now wish I had
taken a picture or at least tried to copy the text. It has since been
painted over.
Nathan
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----- Original Message -----
From: <CalSpeed@aol.com>
To: <jroach@qualcomm.com>; <sandhoff@csus.edu>;
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: Air vent grate mesh
> I learned something interesting about the Air Vent a few years ago. It
> appears that the air vent was placed on the rear shelf area of the car
when
> it went through the painting process at the factory in Japan. Whatever
the
> color of the car would be the color of the vent.
>
> Which leads to another interesting bit of Roadster Trivia. If you want to
> check if the car has ever been repainted all you need to do is to look
> underneath the rear shelf cover and look for the grey rectangular paint
mark.
> What is this paint mark? That is where your air vent sat when your car
was
> being painted. Kinda cool huh?
>
> Calspeed
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