Mike, It is my belief that this hood and decklid are examples of ones that normally would have been painted black but for what ever reason were not. All of the 67 vintage magazine under hood photos show a completely body color under hood treatment like was done in 65 66 and 68 most of the time . I don't know why 67 would be any different. Can you? I have observed on many surviver cars the blacked out variation , the fully painted body color variation and the unpainted or black primer underside with body color overspray variation. As I have said before I think that the hood/decklids that did not get painted satisfactory were supposed to be blacked out but I acknowledge the existence of the overspray covered type like the pictures illustrate. When judging cars I would not and could not in good conscious deduct points in a concours event for one variation or another because there is providence for all of the variations mentioned. We all know that there is a way that the cars were intended to be built at the factory and when restoring your car I do not see any harm in fixing a mistake that might have happened that wasn't part of the blueprint and making it more like it was meant to be. By the same token you can leave a mistake or something irregular the way it was done workmanship wise also. Myself, I like to restore the cars the way they were most of the time which includes a certain amount of drips ,overspray etc.in places that they were commonly found . You just have to remember if there is something irregular do you want to explain it everytime. Maybe you do and maybe you don't. Bob G. On Friday, March 18, 2005, at 04:03 PM, APPTELINC@aol.com wrote: > I think it depended on who was painting, and what day, and perhaps even > if it was the hood or rear deck... > Pic one is an original shot of my car before any resto was done, with > the plaza sticker that became the template for the roll that was made. > No over spray, clean, although the gasket hides most of the paint > lines. Pic 2 is the "Killian" car. Super low miles, never apart, over > spay was on sticker before it fell off > > Kenny & Bob, what do you think? > Mike > > In a message dated 3/18/2005 9:06:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > g.kolasa@us.army.mil writes: > > Mike, > > > > I just had a thought on the PlazaGlas decals: wouldn't they have been > painted over body color byShelby? Plaza makes the parts, installs > their "made by" decals, then ship the hoods to Shelby who paints them, > painting over the decals, then puts the hoods and decks on the cars. > Make sense? > > > > GREG > > > >
