Top of Firewall Paint Line

[cook_dw]

As noted above. Not mask lines. 68 L78. Of course 03D. Tag photo was back before I did a preservation on the car. The other 3 were during the preservation process.

[juliosz]

Jon, I wrote the original post then it occured to me that my firewall paint was likely redone when the original owner started the restoration more than 35 years ago. I did look in Google photos for survivor 67s. I see Jerry M's low mile survivor that appears to have a masked line from the pics on his site. So based on the pictures above, if the Fisher Body folks did their job correctly, there was no masking of the transition line but the operator sprayed the firewall pointing the gun at an upward angle along the edge to minimize overspray on the top. The photo below I would imagine falls into the category of, yes could have happened but was not the standard, agree?

[thehornworks]

There is a foam used to mask door jams I have used that to mask if you don't want a tape line.
https://www.autobodytoolmart.com/pro...e-masking-tape

[1967Z28]

Paul,

The cars restored with the body color on the front of the firewall and over the tag never look quite right to me (personal opinion). Yes, there are some examples of cars where that happened but usually it is fogged on when GM did it and when redone it always seems to have more thorough coverage. The typical Norwood '67 Z had the stripe color contained under the cowl panel, sometimes crisply masked off under there and in other cases it is sprayed there without being masked. The ones which were not crisply masked under the cowl panel did sometimes have stripe color which extended more toward the front of the cowl. Below are some '67 Z Norwood examples. The typical LOS '67 Z, which yours is not, had the majority of the top of the cowl painted with a distinct masked line at the leading edge, but I have seen one example prior to restoration where it was crisply masked off under the cowl panel.