Yes, your right, this forum is and should be to help all of us understand what really happened at the assembly plants, so we may all benefit and restore our cars to the most concours correct condition we desire. My problem is that I disassembled the car in 2007 and then let it sit for 8 years in pieces, additionally at that time I was not going to go down the concours path, also I did not have the knowledge of what to look for and document for that type of restoration. The upside is I have owned the car for over 30 years and started collecting may NOS parts then. Now I am going down that concours path and I wish I had documented more and taken more detailed pictures to help myself and others. Some days its fun some its frustrating, at best your doing most things twice mainly because of the learning process but in the end its rewarding to see what you have accomplished and that you have been able to share your findings and results with others.
Regarding the black out at the quarter windows, my original condition picture does show blackout outside and inside in the window area and believe I will now black out the entire area from under the drip rail corner clip to the bottom inner sheet metal lip at the bend in the quarter window. So unless I get a strong I should not from the more knowledgeable people on this forum, this is what I see in the picture and will black out the entire quarter window visible painted metal, but ahead/away of that it will be body color inside and outside of the car along the weather channel.
