1969 -- paint code delete hugger orange nova

[Nova Jed]

Is that going to be duplicated in the resto?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

That's normal. There should not be paint under the hinges bec/ the lid was painted while installed on the car. The back edge never gets a lot of paint bec/ it's too difficult to get the gun at the right angle.

[deuce-less]

i'm not sure what ken is going to do...

he's the doctor

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

He'll shoot with DP50 to get the plain steel look, then dust on the orange paint after installing it on the car. If not, we have people in the area that will visit him



Sorry, DP50LF - gotta use the Lead Free stuff now-a-days!

[Schonyenko2]

This on has a lot less paint than most I've seen. None have enough, but I tend to think this has less as it's a paint delete, and wasn't painted on the line. You'd think that it would be a better paint job because of that, but appears to be worse. And I honestly can't find any primer. It looks like they shot right over the bare metal. :dunno

[Kurt S]

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.... but I tend to think this has less as it's a paint delete, and wasn't painted on the line. You'd think that it would be a better paint job because of that, but appears to be worse.

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It's wasn't paint delete, it was special paint. The car would have been painted on the line just like any other car, just a different color.

[deuce-less]

interesting pic's of a factory tag found near the heater box flange

[deuce-less]

another1

[Schonyenko2]

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.... but I tend to think this has less as it's a paint delete, and wasn't painted on the line. You'd think that it would be a better paint job because of that, but appears to be worse.

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It's wasn't paint delete, it was special paint. The car would have been painted on the line just like any other car, just a different color.

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I agree, special paint is the more correct term. There were rumored back in the day to have been paint delete cars that were painted at the dealership. Other than perhaps bodies in white, I don't know of any that have been documented that way.
It appears that this car did spend time in the paint shop for something as that tag appears to me to address a paint issue, but does not state rework. The lack of the tag addressing an area of the paint on the car is what makes me think the majority of it was shot off line. If we hung a rework tag on something at our plant, you had to specify what was wrong, and that it was rejected. This tag just says to send it to the paint shop.

[camarojoe]

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This tag just says to send it to the paint shop.

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Isn't it at the paint shop right now? Took 35 years to get there, but hey, that's GM for ya.