Re: [FWDLK] Paint it Black/Love is Gray

[Tim Bowers <stellarrestorations@xxxxxxx>]

Can't speak specifically about when Chrysler stopped using the gray.  I
remember looking at a '55 or '56 300, and the color was body color pretty
much all over, in the engine compartment, trunk compartment, etc.

You can follow the DeSoto Club's discussion of this topic by going to
 http://www.desoto.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&meid=9
If you read through them all, you'll find some unintentionally wrong
information provided simply by people with cars that were done incorrectly,
or just simply not remembering correctly until they went out and actually
looked at the car out in the garage.  I can say with confidence, though,
that DeSoto used the gray (especially on the inner fenders!) up through '57.
On Detroit built cars.  One contributor to the DeSoto discussion has an
unmolested LA car that has gray fenders, but conventional wisdom says that
LA cars were semi-gloss black.

Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry & Andree Hoeman" <tehoema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tim Bowers" <stellarrestorations@xxxxxxx>;
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Paint it Black/Love is Gray


> I thought the use of the universal gray stopped after 55.
>
> Right or wrong??
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Bowers" <stellarrestorations@xxxxxxx>
> To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 12:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Paint it Black/Love is Gray
>
>
> > That would communicate my intentions, anyway.
> >
> > My awareness of the Dupont SP145 came about due to my request for
> > information related to the inner fenders and underside of the DeSoto.
> > Martin Lumm indicated that he had color matched SP-145 to the inner
> > fenders
> > of a very original '55 DeSoto that he had.  Detroit build DeSotos had
gray
> > inner fenders in the engine compartment, and it was suggested that the
> > underside of the floorboard would have been coated in that same
material.
> > I
> > also found remnants of it on the inside of the quarter panels on the '56
> > I'm
> > restoring, BUT, the DeSoto we have is LA built , and it becomes somewhat
> > of
> > a moot point for me, because the LA DeSotos had semi-gloss black inner
> > fenders.  To be purely correct, I should probably put the gray back on
the
> > inside of the quarters, but I'm not sure I'm going to spend the money on
> > one
> > more type of material for something that's going to be covered up by
panel
> > board and never seen.
> >
> > The trunk underside of our LA DeSoto was body color.  As was the
underside
> > of the hood.  As it turns out, so far I don't have anyplace to put the
> > gray
> > either, just like Neil.  But at least I know what I would get, in the
> > event
> > that I needed it!
> >
> > Tim
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> > From: "eastern sierra Adj Services" <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 8:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Paint it Black/Love is Gray
> >
> >
> >> Yeahbutt (& I have NO vested-interest in this discussion, as Horace's
> >> (Detroit) under-trunk is "Flame-Red"), as Tim Bowers pointed-out, IF
> >> anyone is interested in (re-)painting their L.A. built car's
under-trunk
> >> area, then Dupont's
> >> "Fleet Color SP-145"  may be :"an appropriate"
> >> (right, Tim?) color-formulation.
> >>
> >> Neil Vedder
> >>
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