I forgot to address the question of the stickers . I think they would have been painted over if left on, but I suspect that they mostly fell off before being painted . I have seen many more surviver hoods/decklids without a sticker outline then with a outline of a missing sticker (I have only seen original stickers still on in pictures sent to me ) which makes me think that they fell or were taken off most of the time . Bob G. On Friday, March 18, 2005, at 10:19 PM, Robert Gaines wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >>
