Re: [Chrysler300] PAINT

Radiator Support / behind grille: 68 Sport Satellite Silver (original in 1968), 67 New Yorker Dark Red (original), 67 300 Gold (original), 71 Charger Bright Red and 71 Charger Gunmetal Grey - all same as body except 67 Newport black but so is whole engine compartment. Cant help with anything before 1967.

Edward Mills Antique Tractors 1930-1960 Antique Cars 1960-1985

On 6/15/2016 7:38 AM, Guy Desmarteau guybirtz863@xxxxxxxxx [Chrysler300] wrote:

Rad support on our 57 300 Gaugin Red, was never painted, but on our 58 Imperial Champagne Gold, was painted by spray, not brushed. Also my 70 Duster 340 Blue, was painted by spray, and all those cars had full wheel wells undercoated.

Guy Desmarteau

Montreal, Canada

2016-06-14 15:36 GMT-04:00 Ryan Hill ryan_hillc300@xxxxxxxxxxx [Chrysler300] <Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Rad supports on my two '65 300's were never painted. One silver car, one gold. Perhaps things changed by '65.....or the worker who performed that task was away when my cars came down the line.

Ryan Hill

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Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] PAINT

I'm talking letter cars, specifically my 61G.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Ryan Hill <ryan_hillc300@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Are we talking about early Chryslers? You mentioned a '71 Charger.... While I agree it does look nicer not seeing the paint shining through from behind the grille, I have owned many C and B body Mopars over the years, none of which were black or blue. None of them had the rad support painted black, ever. Two are original U.S. manufactured (California) cars, the rest were manufactured in Canada. Could this be an Eastern thing? Maybe the paint was actually 'rust proofing'?

All my cars have had full rubberized undercoat including wheel wells of course.

Ryan Hill

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Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] PAINT

I was taught a long time ago that it was Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge (I suppose Desoto also) policy that when looking at a car from any exterior angle, you only see body color on the exterior of the vehicle. This means wheel wells and radiator support (when viewed thru the grille or headlights would not show body color. This is why all cars except dark blue or black colored cars left the factory with sloppily applied flat black paint on the outside of the core support and hastily applied undercoating in the wheel wells.

Now, as you look at high dollar restorations of cars and you see the body color either through the grille or inside the wheel wells, they just don’t look right. I do, however, understand why someone wouldn’t what to apply crappy paint over nice paint. I’ve done it to 2 cars that I can think of (’71 Top Banana Yellow Charger and my G). It was not easy at the time when considering the time and effort that went into a nice paint job. BUT, the cars look so much better that way.

As a side note, my white G had never been apart before I got it and the outside of the core support was painted flat black.

On Jun 14, 2016, at 8:23 AM, John Nowosacki jsnowosacki@xxxxxxxxx [Chrysler300] <Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

on my mostly original G, it very much looks like it was painted body color, and then someone on the line just sort of reached in with a gun or rattle can of flat black paint to hit the area around the radiator that would show through the grill and not look right going down the street.
It doesn't appear that any masking was done, either. Almost like an afterthought to make sure you couldn't see the white body color through the grill.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 8:13 PM, 'John McAdams' clafong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [Chrysler300] <Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I painted it the same color as the inner fender panels. Which was the same color as the car. BTW In 1962 the Red was called Festival Red.

Big John McAdams
(In SoCal)

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Subject: [Chrysler300] PAINT

HI GANG. SHOULD THE RADIATOR SUPPORT , THE PART THAT FACES THE GRILL WEAR THE HORNS ARE MOUNTED BE PAINTED THE SAME COLOR AS THE CAR, OR SHOULD BE PAINTED BLACK. THANKS JOE LUCIANO HOWARD BEACH NY

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