[Lynn]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: miket1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Lynn,
If I understand correctly the stripe color was sprayed on the cowl area first, then the firewall was sprayed black, depending on who was painting the firewall each Z28 had differences in how high up the firewall was blacked out, so some Z's had more stripe color showing down over the top edge of the firewall than others. </div></div>

You may be right Mike. I don't know that it would have mattered on my car, as none of the white paint made it below front cowl edge. In fact, look closely and you will see it was so thin toward the front that you could see the black body color through the white paint. Below is a quote from JohnZ's assembly article:

&quot;The last process for a non-stripe car was the blackout booth, where the firewall was blacked-out, the trunk was sprayed with spatter paint, and sound-deadening undercoat material was sprayed in the rear wheelhouses. The rear &quot;cocktail shakers&quot; on convertibles were suspended in the trunk for spatter painting, but weren't bolted in place until later in the Trim Shop, after the taillights and marker lights were installed.

If the car required Z28, Z10, or Z11 stripes or a black rear end panel or rockers, they were masked and manually sprayed in the in-line repair booth/oven system after the reflow oven, including the cowl vent panel; spoilers were painted body color separate from the body, and were final-installed to the deck lid just prior to the repair booth. The rear window filler panel, deck lid and spoiler were masked and sprayed stripe color in the repair booth, and baked in the repair oven before the body went back downstairs to the Trim Shop. The paint guns in the repair booth were fed from manifolds that were part of the main color circulating system so that the repair booth used exactly the same paint the main color booths were using.&quot;