Painting Procedures. '65 300

["ryan hill" <ryan_hillc300@xxxx>]

Hi everyone, I'm eager to hear some suggestions as to how I should paint my 
'65 300 which is currently completely stripped down to the shell. My concern 
is overspray. I will have the front subframe and suspension rebuilt and 
detailed prior to painting and reassembly and don't want to end up with 
primer and paint all over it, this is one problem. The other problem is that 
if I paint all of the firewall etc. prior to assembling and aligning the 
fenders, hood, doors, and cowl ; I'll have primer spraying through the seems 
onto the fresh paint when I'm applying building primer and blocking out the 
body.

My solution at this point is to prep the firewall and jambs, assemble and 
align the cars body parts, finish all of the bodywork and apply final 
sealer, then disassemble the front end parts again so I can paint the 
firewall and inner fenders etc. prior to final assembly before taking the 
car to the bodyshop for body paint.

Anyone got any better suggestion? How did the factory do this? Should all of 
the pieces (Rad support, innner fenders, gravel pans, etc.) be painted alone 
prior to assembly and then re-painted once assembled or should they go on 
after the entire process is done? Little help.............?

Sincerely, Ryan Hill ('65 300's)

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