Thanks Jeff.
My car was built 11/04/69. I'm presently replacing the shock towers and front aprons, and would like to simulate the factory primer and undercoating patterns on the back side along with suspension detailing during reassembly. The car will not be 100% perfect, but I would like the work I'm doing to be close.
NJ cars can be a challenge since they are often well rusted and lack many details due to this. Good thing is that its a 70 since we do have a fair number of 70 Boss 302's that escaped the region to drier parts of the country
NJ 70's are pretty straight forward - basically the same as San Jose cars during the same period
- Front wheel wells (inner fenders and shock towers on wheel side) are all black with the same paint as used inside the engine compartment. Appears that the rear splash shields may have been in place when the black was applied. So black from the cowl pinch weld on the drivers side to the passenger side cowl pinch weld. Every inch of the shock tower didn't always get a thick/good coat of black but they tried not to miss anything
- The bottom of the front frame rails are red oxide (applied first) as well as pockets formed by the sheet metal on the bottom of the car where the black (applied from above) would not have reached with direct application or overspray.
Much like this Dearborn example
- Like other years and plants the sound deadener in the front wheelwells was applied after the car was all assembled - but before the front wheels and tires were installed so that it would seal openings and joints.
This application often included a pass over the bottom of the fender to inner fender lip joint to seal it also
- Floor sound deadener (to the underside of floor pan) was applied after rearend and e brake hardware were in place but before exhaust and driveline. Factory sound deadener (as compared with under coating) does not cover the whole floor nor from one pinch weld to the other.
- The engine compartment black was sprayed up the firewall, across the cowl to the windshield opening
- Rear wheelwell sound deadener was applied before exterior color with overspray and splatters onto the rear frame rail visible through the wheelwell opening. Just make the pattern make sense since we often see heavy applications to the wheelwell - with none on the frame rail directly behind that area. The beginning and or the end of the application wand would have started or ended past the edge of the wheelwell
- Do you need seat belt sealant as well as quarter drop off sealant details also?
- When you get to planning on painting the body there are some tricky details as to how the large side molding ends were blacked out as well as the taillight panel black out.
