69 GT500 raw body paint and overspray

[kasearch@ix.netcom.com]

OK, I can't find any books that tell the process of painting the body. I am attempting to figure out on the RAW body, what gets painted what .  I already know about undercarriage and the slop gray, red and black seam color on the bottom of the car, etc.  What specifically I don't know is in the raw interior, what was just primer, what was fully painted, what had simple over spray. Are the floor pans, inner panels inner door frames, underside of roof primer, body color over spray? Any recommendations for reading material?

[J_Speegle]

............................. What specifically I don't know is in the raw interior, what was just primer, what was fully painted, what had simple over spray. Are the floor pans, inner panels inner door frames, underside of roof primer, body color over spray? Any recommendations for reading material?

Interior panels under all the bolt, clip and screw on parts is a mix of finishes originally. And each car got a little different application based on the effort, age, height of the worker, the angle of the spray guns and other things.

Base would have been a red oxide in the visible surfaces, bare metal elsewhere. You can find some light gray primers introduced from the exterior application but not the extent, usually, we find body color. Body color was introduced into the cabin directly and indirectly from the painting of the adjacent exterior panels as well as the door and window openings as they were painted. Bottom side of the roof is often a combination of bare steel and thinly applied coat of red oxide

Many of the lower or horizontal surfaces collected more exterior color on many cars due to application angle and gravity.  You also have the metal dash panel black out but this seems to depend on when the car was built. On some cars you can find black out on the lower inner A pillar area and have seen only a couple of examples at this plant where the defogger hole was blacked out on the rear panel facing the interior area

If your going to the extent of worrying about the hidden surfaces and the paint application might as well mention - Don't forget the two dolly shadows on the front floor pans


Just some random examples




Non-Shelby standard interior example