Original paint cars

[Salvatore]

My Lemans Blue SS does too. My original SS nova back in 1969 (Dusk blue) had them also. A lot of the leaded areas, seams have the file/grind marks it seems. I love em now, but we all hated them 40 years ago!

[1969l78]

Gotta love those original paint cars

[JohnZ]

With Fisher Body painting the body from the firewall back and Chevrolet painting the front sheet metal, color and gloss mismatch arguments between the two plants' Plant Managers, Chief Inspectors, and Paint Shop Superintendents were a daily feature at the end of the Chevrolet Final Line. The ashtray faceplate, glove box door, and steering column were also painted by Chevrolet, in a separate small-parts paint system, and the main welded-in instrument panel was painted by Fisher Body, so they seldom matched either. That's just "the way it was" in the Fisher/Chevrolet assembly plants.

Think that's a dumb way to paint and build a car? The bodies for the 60's-70's "E"-bodies (Riviera, Toronado, Eldorado) were built, painted and trimmed (from the firewall back) at Fisher Body-Euclid in Ohio, then trucked to the Buick, Oldsmobile, and Cadillac "home plants" in Flint, Lansing, and Detroit for final assembly, with the same never-ending paint arguments.

We've come a long way since then.