Under-cowl paint color?

[camarojoe]

The top of the cowl should be orange. The orange fogs over the top edge of the firewall, overspraying the black firewall paint on Norwood cars, and has a taped edge on LA cars.

[Denis]

I'm talking about the color under the cowl panel, through the plenum openings where the wiper transmission is visible. On this original paint car, the area is clearly body colored with the wiper transmission black:



Yet I'm told that the factory assembly procedure included "black out" in the plenum area so that the wiper assembly wouldn't stand out so much. So I'm trying to find examples of cars to support this claim -- obviously the car pictured above doesn't, so maybe it's hit-and-miss or maybe it depends on assembly date or assembly line, or exterior color, or maybe it was just never done.

[camaromb]

I just picked up an original paint orange non-z28 '69 Camaro. Like all the other original non-z28 '69 Camaros I've seen it's painted body color in the wiper arm area inside the cowl, no blackout.

[Charley Lillard]

Here is the top of the firewall on Barnharts ZL1

[bkhpah]

Never have I seen a blacked out cowl area on a car that did NOT have stripes. Ive seen plenty of white in that area on a white striped Z/28, without any attempt to blacked out. The wiper transmission is installed after paint...BKH

[RamAirDave]

I believe JohnZ has said that the area was "supposed" to be blacked out, but it was pretty random as to how often it was actually done that way. This, and a orig paint PC that was orange here, are the only orig paint cars that Ive dealt with that was not body color in the cowl area (orig paint, black stripe Z):





And the body color was sprayed first, with the firewall paint fogged in to the upper half of the firewall rather than the other way around.

dave

[camarojoe]

If the car had Z stripes that's normal,so there isnt another color showing through the grilles of the cowl panel in the middle of the stripes, which is also why you found orange in this area on a pace car...but without stripes I've never seen one that wasn't body color.

[camarojoe]

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And the body color was sprayed first, with the firewall paint fogged in to the upper half of the firewall rather than the other way around.

dave

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Agreed. I realized that error shortly after typing it but it was too late to delete. Van Nuys masked the cowl before painting the firewall, Norwood didn't.