Vito Pacione wrote:
I'm getting my body repainted (finally). I had some question on some
of the
body panel painting. My car had had some previous repair so I can't
tell for
sure how factory paint was done.
Vito - as a general rule of thumb, if the component is an integral
part of the body structure and integrity, it was painted in one pass.
This includes doors, bonnets, boot lids, hinges, related fasteners
holding one body element to the other. etc.
Doors were not painted separately and fitted later. Today is it
customary to remove fully painted doors and associated hardware during
assembly to facilitate access. It wasn't then. Related hardware such
as window mechanisms, door locks and other components would have been
plated (galvanised, phosphated, chromed etc) and fitted in the build
process. Consequently the related hardware would not have been
painted. You don't say what your car is - but if its a TR, it would
have been painted at the Liverpool plant which, apart from generally
appalling build quality of the body structure as a whole, had its own
unique rules regarding painting. The 'rules' centred essentially on
attitude, general bloody-mindedness and what people felt like doing at
the time.
Jonmac
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