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Originally Posted by 4dabird
I know there is a lot of debate on this, but the 69 convertibles from Van Nuys came with gray primer on the bottom and the Ohio plant had red oxide, although there is one member on here that has a body colored floor from Ohio. I guess it depends on what you believe to be true. For me, it was just not wanting a black bottomed car, or the gray primer either. Body color looks nice and will accentuate the detail with all my new brake and fuel lines, not to mention after putting a new floor in the car with new bracing, that I didn't want it to be all covered up with undercoating.

I did go thru some pictures yesterday of a red RAIII convertible (almost perfect show car, that was featured in Hemming's Muscle Machines a few years back). I know the owner of that car and although I didn't have the best picture to see the exact area, he did have the black firewall transition near the seam of the floor to the gray primer, so I'm going to keep it where it is.

Thanks for the input and I appreciate your opinions a lot.

Mark.


I would agree with you Mark. I found on my 68 Firebird, top and bottom was sprayed in topcoat. There is a famous pic of a 69 Firebird lowering the body down into the chassis. You can see the underbody including the inner fenders are painted top coat red.

I would continue your top coat up to the firewall. Then spray the firewall (top down) and let the black overspray the topcoat at the bottom of firewall.

Looks great, good luck!


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Transition point for floor color to firewall? 4dabird 06/26/18 02:42 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? 4dabird 06/26/18 02:50 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Gus68 06/28/18 03:53 AM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? HaroldB 06/27/18 01:16 AM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Gus68 06/27/18 02:29 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? 68tpls400 06/27/18 12:21 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? 4dabird 06/27/18 02:10 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Gus68 06/27/18 02:25 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? HaroldB 06/27/18 02:54 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? HaroldB 06/27/18 03:06 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Gus68 06/28/18 03:48 AM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? 4dabird 06/28/18 02:15 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Jimc2002 06/28/18 03:27 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? 4dabird 06/27/18 03:32 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? fitztim 07/13/18 05:56 AM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? HaroldB 06/27/18 05:08 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? 4dabird 06/27/18 05:54 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? wovenweb 07/13/18 10:54 AM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Jimc2002 07/13/18 01:38 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Gus68 07/13/18 03:03 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? wovenweb 07/14/18 12:59 AM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? HaroldB 08/14/18 06:10 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Jimc2002 08/14/18 07:36 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Gus68 08/14/18 10:39 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? HaroldB 08/15/18 05:18 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Gus68 08/14/18 10:20 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Jimc2002 08/14/18 11:28 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Jimc2002 08/15/18 05:33 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? 4dabird 08/17/18 03:32 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? 4dabird 08/17/18 03:36 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? 4dabird 08/17/18 06:10 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Gus68 08/18/18 11:46 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? 4dabird 08/20/18 10:32 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Gus68 08/20/18 11:53 PM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? 4dabird 08/22/18 04:53 AM
Re: Transition point for floor color to firewall? Jimc2002 08/22/18 06:23 PM

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