Topic: brown primer?

[big bad blue]

 My car is a 70 Eliminator built November 11, 1969. Primer is Brown not red. I do remember when I was in High School Brown primer being the norm. When did they switch from red to brown?  Where is the best place to get Brown Primer?

[69GT350H]

Brown, red?

[J_Speegle]

Given that you have an Eliminator we can conclude that your car was built at Deaborn.

Where did you locate this "primer"?

By 70's the vast majority of coatings that were used in the firewall rearward and firewall forward was a mix of left over paints. The right combination of those could have produced a brown looking coating similar to what your describing (not a full epoxy primer) if enough cars the day/shift or period before your car was coated were painted.

There have been a few red oxide epoxy primer cars documented during 70 Dearborn production but this appears to have been limited and used as a back up when the other process failed for some reason

[big bad blue]

 this is in the interior. The rest of the car is bare metal and I don't have pictures of the front clip right now. The bottom of course was slop gray, which I have matched already. Getting ready to spray that and was checking on the forum for some parameters.
 I will get a picture. But it is Chocolate Malt Brown. Back in high school one of the guys drove a 55 chev in Brown Primer  his whole Senior year, we teased him, the rust won't show anyway. 
 On the 69s I have done, they were more red oxide. That is why I asked if there was a specific time that they went Brown.

[J_Speegle]

Yes that is the difference we see at Dearborn in late (some time periods) 69 and 70 in the use of batch colors from the firewall forward areas from below and from the wheel well sides.  Suggest you have a paint of your choice made to match the color you see after you document the color and findings

Have not yet spent as much time studying the 70 Dearborn wheel wells and there are some different and interesting patterns found on unrestored cars that should be investigated more at some time in the future