Re: [Chrysler300] Fw: '57 & '58 300 trunklid insulation factory assembly, how'd they do it....

[MRS954@xxxxxxx]

I remember, when I was a youngster, my grandparents bought a new 56 Lancer and it had the tarpaper in the trunk lid. We travelled to Rochester for my uncle's wedding. They piled a bunch of luggage in the trunk and covered it with a hand-made quilt which was supposed to be a wedding gift. When we got to Rochester and my grandfather opened the trunklid, the quilt was glued to the tarpaper from the sun beating on the lid. You can imagine the reaction of my grandmother! It ruined her for the whole weekend. She talked about that until the day she died. My grandfather?wanted to buy a 300B, but when reality?set in (he was 77 years old then), he opted for the 4-door Dodge instead.


Mark



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From: Wayne Graefen <wgraefen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Intl 300 <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:31 am
Subject: [Chrysler300] Fw: '57 & '58 300 trunklid insulation factory assembly, how'd they do it....




I'm hoping Robert Merrit, NY, will chime in on this and correct anything of his 
corporate history that I misrepresent.  You see, it was SimplexCo, back in his 
father's day, that produced for Detroit that tar soaked felt that was crimped 
between the outer sheetmetal and the inner trunk frame prior to primer and 
paint.  The felt is very highly absorbent of paint and in probably 90% of the 
cars there is little to no evidence of the paint products because it was fully 
absorbed.  During some production the paints were heavily enough applied that 
they did show up to a very minor degree.  Remember these cars were built prior 
to robotic painting so there is wide variation in coverage.  When you do see 
very obvious paint on the trunk lid insulation, you can be certain that the 
trunk inner was repainted at a later date after the tarred felt had been drying 
and evaporating and remembering that it has already been lightly primed and 
painted once each, succeeding coats become readily visible.  The felt had 
multiple functions acting as a temperature insulator, sound insulator, rattle 
/squeak insulator between the sheet metal and frame, and when the outer and 
inner stampings were quite similar, the tarred felt significantly slowed all but 
the edges of the unpaintable metal areas from rusting.


Wayne 

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From: Owen Grigg [mailto:ram300@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2008 8:21 p.m.
To: 'Chrysler 300 club'
Subject: '57 & '58 300 trunklid insulation factory assembly, how'd they do 
it.... 

 

Hi All

Whilst working on my 300C I was just curious to know how the factory put 
together the trunk lid assembly. The factory installed insulation appears to be 
in one large sheet, not cut to fit the holes. There is no overspray from the 
trunk lid frame on the insulation material, surely the factory did not mask the 
inside of the trunk to spray the frame and avoid the insulation pad. All I can 
come up with is the frame and outer trunk skin were painted before joining the 
two together and sandwiching the insulation pad, sounds like a roundabout way of 
doing it? 

 

Anyone know how they did it, would put my mind at rest.

 

Thanks

Owen

Auckland,NZ

 


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