Topic: Early 65 Dearborn inside the trunk pictures

[jtfx6552]

Anyone have some pictures of the undercoating/sound deadener, inside the trunk on an early 65 model year dearborn car? Mine is date code 29K (Oct'64).

I'd love to see some pictures of what it looked like in there.

Also pictures of the seam sealer around the taillight panel and bumper supports would be helpful as well.

JT

[5F09CNot4Sale]

If you give me until next week I have a Sept 28 Fastback I can post some pictures. The tunk has not been restored.

[J_Speegle]

Here is one example from around that time period. Body style IMHO should not make a great difference

Did highlight the pattern on a couple of pictures to help out - at least where it looks to travel to me

Not a well defined sound deadener pattern on the quarters and the seam sealer allot thinner and neater that other periods and plants

Hope this helps

Quarter panel




Taillight panel to lower rear panel







Taillight panel and bumper support







Rear wheel tubs to floor

[jtfx6552]

If you give me until next week I have a Sept 28 Fastback I can post some pictures. The tunk has not been restored.

Sounds good, looking forward to it.

[jtfx6552]

Here is one example from around that time period. Body style IMHO should not make a great difference

Did highlight the pattern on a couple of pictures to help out - at least where it looks to travel to me

Not a well defined sound deadener pattern on the quarters and the seam sealer allot thinner and neater that other periods and plants

Hope this helps

Quarter panel




Taillight panel to lower rear panel







Taillight panel and bumper support







Rear wheel tubs to floor

Thanks!

The hightlighting is nice as it is hard to see. Can you tell n the 1/4s, does the edge of the undercoating stop before it gets to the outer wheel house? Is there any undercoating overspray on the outer wheelhouse?

[J_Speegle]

Thanks!

The hightlighting is nice as it is hard to see. Can you tell n the 1/4s, does the edge of the undercoating stop before it gets to the outer wheel house? Is there any undercoating overspray on the outer wheelhouse?

Sound deadener stops  (typically and on the example) before the wheel house and no overspray  on the wheel house

The sound deadener normally does not produce much of an overspray like paint did - its at allot heavier and normally applied just abut 90 degree to the surface in this application

[rodster]

Don't know if this is typical but it appears sound deadener was sprayed between the fender and wheelhouse with a bit of deadener on both.

65 Dearborn April 19th build date

[rodster]

Same car and there are some runs in the paint of the outer wheelhouse.  Possibly from when the wheelhouse was painted?

[J_Speegle]

Same car and there are some runs in the paint of the outer wheelhouse.  Possibly from when the wheelhouse was painted?

Those runs are pretty typical at at least a couple of plants. Never cut through them (should) to see if that is a primer run or a paint run which would give us an idea of when that was done and why it happened.

[rodster]

Those runs are pretty typical at at least a couple of plants. Never cut through them (should) to see if that is a primer run or a paint run which would give us an idea of when that was done and why it happened.

I'll get on that tomorrow.   From what I could tell it appeared to be a black paint run but I'll pull one off and cut through it to confirm.

[J_Speegle]

I'll get on that tomorrow.   From what I could tell it appeared to be a black paint run but I'll pull one off and cut through it to confirm.

If its in the paint (my guess also) then I would guess that we are looking at the body being tilted after the body was sprayed, as it moved from station to station (or to or in the ovens)

[rodster]

Paint runs on the DS too.   Think these paint runs had to come from the trunk area being painted? The must have been pretty heavy on the paint on this car as there are other runs on it too.

[rodster]

Those runs are pretty typical at at least a couple of plants. Never cut through them (should) to see if that is a primer run or a paint run which would give us an idea of when that was done and why it happened.

I was wrong about my guess that it was a paint run....ends up it's a primer run with a thin coat of black over it.

[CharlesTurner]

Those runs, when present, are typically coming from the bottom up... which means the car was turned up somehow during part of the priming process.

[Skyway65]

Here is a picture of the inside of the trunk of a pre-production Mustang VIN #4, build date code 5C.  I can't vouch for the originality of the sound deadener but I do know the quarter is original to the car so I would assume the sound deadener is original as well.