Brake scoops painted?

[Bob Gaines]

One discussion I have had at French Lick a couple weeks ago; is early in the 1966 production year SAI masked off and paint the black paint on the quarter before installing the scoop and then later in the year they changed to just shooting in some black paint into the scoop after the scoop was installed.

Has there been enough definite information to conclude this one way or the other?

All good and fine but remember since the scoops were not sealed to the quarter expect possible paint blow out from that spraying into the scoop process. Regardless which process do you think would have the least amount of possible problems.  

[J_Speegle]

One discussion I have had at French Lick a couple weeks ago; is early in the 1966 production year SAI masked off and paint the black paint on the quarter before installing the scoop and then later in the year they changed to just shooting in some black paint into the scoop after the scoop was installed.

The challenge IMHO with this theory (blacking out once the scoop was installed) is how do you determine which  ones might have been done at Shelby and which ones were done by owners, resellers or car lots to freshen up the cars. Recall allot of owners that took take a rattle can of black paint and black out rear wheel wells (didn't like body colored wheel wells) and inside the scoops. This  same practiced influenced a lot of the early restorations in the 80-90's into believing that rear wheel wells were blacked out or sound deadener was applied last which we have disproven.

[csxsfm]

6S290 has original paint and inside of scoop is black.