Is this supposed to be matte black?

[Jack4159]

I would just like to thank Mr Gaines for all of the free advice he provides on the forum and the non judgemental way in which he dispenses it.
To state the obvious we are very lucky to have him here, thank you Sir....

[shelbymann1970]

Jeff I see a few of your pics the underside color looks like the same batch "purple" as my friends unrestored Calif Boss 429.

I'm afraid that the floor color has nothing to do with the subject or area we're discussing. The floor color was not sprayed into the area being discussed and it sounds like Crossboss is describing a coating applied after body color application and over the cut surface/taillight panel done at AO Smith. Have seen many 69 Dearborn built Mustangs with similar floor color from firewall rearward without any connection to what he is describing

Crossboss I believe you will find that shelbymann1970 is only describing his floor color not his taillight panel and there is nothing in the pictures to suggest that IMHO

Jeff, I should have asked a question of you when I posted. I posted pics of my friends original boss9. That "purple" color can be seen pretty much front to back underneath in my pics. My question is would that "purple" also transcend up to the rear cross panel since it is on the vertical trunk drop offs? If so would a car that had a black underside(batch) possibly also have that black up to some degree behind the rear valance? I will be doing further examinations of my friend's boss behind the rear valance when I can see it up on one of his lifts. April 69 car. My tail light panel was all red on my vert and somewhere I have a 1984 pic of my old grabber blue car disassembled where the whole rear tail light panel and bumper area is blue with no black which appears is the norm.

[FL SAAC]

My 1970 GT-500 it was painted (crudely/overspray) black in the lower section as in your picture. Also, the in the cut tail light area.

Just so others reading don't get the wrong idea ,just like there was no black in the outlined area of the posted picture originally from the factory there typically was no black out done by AO Smith in the cut tail light area during conversion. Any black seen there most likely was done by previous owners or the body shop doing body work.

No. It was obviously sprayed under the back taillight panel, and the overspray on the bottom. It was an original car, never messed with when I bought it in 1984.

Believe what you want. I don't want others making mistakes on their cars based on your claims. Making out of the ordinary claims does not make them true. They don't stand up to scrutiny.

You owe me an apology for your pubic lashing you gave me. Now that another member's car had the same areas painted black, proves that I was not blowing smoke. You just learned something. I would also appreciate that in the future you are not closed minded, and take what others have stated are not fantasy.

I will say that I am sorry if you think that was a lashing because It wasn't meant to be . It was meant to warn others about copying mistakes. You are being naive if you think that the example you are using is a untouched example which can be used as a yard stick . Besides the small black paint marks around the tail panel there is also black paint seen on - the trunk floor sides and forward section ahead of the gas tank opening and also maybe the interior floor which would be under the fold down. Unless you are trying to say that AO Smith blacked out the entire trunk on that non black car for some reason . You aren't are you?  Before you invoke the "anything is possible" ,"you weren't there" last resort defense you may want to consider Occam's Razor: The simplest explanation is most likely the correct one. In this case it is past owner done.

we wholeheartedly agree with Mr Gaines on this opinion it's a + 1

[J_Speegle]

Jeff, I should have asked a question of you when I posted. I posted pics of my friends original boss9. That "purple" color can be seen pretty much front to back underneath in my pics. My question is would that "purple" also transcend up to the rear cross panel since it is on the vertical trunk drop offs? If so would a car that had a black underside(batch) possibly also have that black up to some degree behind the rear valance? I will be doing further examinations of my friend's boss behind the rear valance when I can see it up on one of his lifts. April 69 car. My tail light panel was all red on my vert and somewhere I have a 1984 pic of my old grabber blue car disassembled where the whole rear tail light panel and bumper area is blue with no black which appears is the norm.

Choose to start a new thread with my response out of respect for the OP and the original focus of this thread

New thread - https://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=21710.new#new

[crossboss]

My 1970 GT-500 it was painted (crudely/overspray) black in the lower section as in your picture. Also, the in the cut tail light area.

Just so others reading don't get the wrong idea ,just like there was no black in the outlined area of the posted picture originally from the factory there typically was no black out done by AO Smith in the cut tail light area during conversion. Any black seen there most likely was done by previous owners or the body shop doing body work.

No. It was obviously sprayed under the back taillight panel, and the overspray on the bottom. It was an original car, never messed with when I bought it in 1984.

Believe what you want. I don't want others making mistakes on their cars based on your claims. Making out of the ordinary claims does not make them true. They don't stand up to scrutiny.

You owe me an apology for your pubic lashing you gave me. Now that another member's car had the same areas painted black, proves that I was not blowing smoke. You just learned something. I would also appreciate that in the future you are not closed minded, and take what others have stated are not fantasy.

I will say that I am sorry if you think that was a lashing because It wasn't meant to be . It was meant to warn others about copying mistakes. You are being naive if you think that the example you are using is a untouched example which can be used as a yard stick . Besides the small black paint marks around the tail panel there is also black paint seen on - the trunk floor sides and forward section ahead of the gas tank opening and also maybe the interior floor which would be under the fold down. Unless you are trying to say that AO Smith blacked out the entire trunk on that non black car for some reason . You aren't are you?  Before you invoke the "anything is possible" ,"you weren't there" last resort defense you may want to consider Occam's Razor: The simplest explanation is most likely the correct one. In this case it is past owner done.

we wholeheartedly agree with Mr Gaines on this opinion it's a + 1

Like your credibility means anything.