W-25 hood scoop inlet paint
#1
W-25 hood scoop inlet paint
Hello fellow members of the Rocket cloth-
Would someone be able to tell me if the body color is supposed to extend into the hood scoop inlets?
Thanks.
-Christian
Would someone be able to tell me if the body color is supposed to extend into the hood scoop inlets?
Thanks.
-Christian
#3
Thank you Stevengerard. My body/paint guy thought they should be masked off, and I wasn't sure as I've seen both over the years. He is just putting the finishing touches on my silver '70 just in time for the Sacramento Autorama. At this point, we'll just guess as to the shade as the car is not concours-quality; just a nice driver.
#5
Thank you Stevengerard. My body/paint guy thought they should be masked off, and I wasn't sure as I've seen both over the years. He is just putting the finishing touches on my silver '70 just in time for the Sacramento Autorama. At this point, we'll just guess as to the shade as the car is not concours-quality; just a nice driver.
Your car looks good.Love the silver and black.....
Ted
#6
Nearly all I have seen are black, however I have seen this occasionally on original cars. A good friend of mine's original unrestored '71 W30 convertible displays this.
#7
would like to have others chime in, I have never seen anything but black (well a few where they painted body color too far in) but that doesn't mean that they weren't all repaints. Makes sense that the factory would just tape that part off, paint the hood and leave it unpainted. Painting that black would be an extra step. I need to go out and check the hardtop.
#8
This is the only factory OAI hood I have seen in person, so it's hard for me to say all are like this. But I do know this is the original paint on this hood and the scoop inlets were the white fibreglass.
#9
would like to have others chime in, I have never seen anything but black (well a few where they painted body color too far in) but that doesn't mean that they weren't all repaints. Makes sense that the factory would just tape that part off, paint the hood and leave it unpainted. Painting that black would be an extra step. I need to go out and check the hardtop.
#10
The scoops are painted black, and they are painted at an angle. The only cars in which I have seen that were not painted at all were the cars that were built during the strike. Therefore, you have pre-strike, strike, and post strike cars.
#12
Hi. A friend of mine worked in the repair hole at the end of the assembly line in Lansing for most of his career with GM. He told me one of his duties on ram air hoods was to remove the masking from the scoops before they would lay the mask material for the stripes. The black inside the scoops was what he called "parts wash" or just the black coating used on service parts. If you put a service part out in the sun for very long the "parts wash" goes away because it's not very resistant to sunlight fade. I've always thought that the scoops with white showing would have been black when they were new. Some one higher up in Olds told me they were supposed to be painted however assembly line workers might have skipped the painting if they could get away with it since they were already black on most batches of hoods. ~BOB
#14
JoesW31 is correct, my freind had a Cutlass S with the w25 hood and the wing and a 4 spd and his hood scoops were white inside but my 70 w30 were black and so were all 11 442's between 70 and 72 that I have owned were also but I have another friend with a 71w30 with the white inside so I think it was during the strike they did not get painted or at least some of them. By the way the color on my 70 was semi gloss black! but on all the others more of a flat black and weak at that.
#15
My W30 had the original paint when I got it in 1978, the inside of the scoops was flat black. I also had a Rally 350 with original paint, it was also flat black in the scoops. I was into these cars in the late 70s, every car I saw with original paint had the flat black. I have never seen a bare glass one.
would like to have others chime in, I have never seen anything but black (well a few where they painted body color too far in) but that doesn't mean that they weren't all repaints. Makes sense that the factory would just tape that part off, paint the hood and leave it unpainted. Painting that black would be an extra step. I need to go out and check the hardtop.
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