Under Hood Paint Color Seperation

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  1. orig72 grabber

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    I'm in the process of prepping my Comet GT for paint, the car is red and the engine bay is black, where is the factory parting line for the 2 colors. The cowl is currently red including the lip that the tower braces are bolted to, there is some peeling of the red paint along the lip with black visible underneath what is correct. Also the hood hinges are painted red, is that correct or were they black. Some pictures of an original car would be nice to look at.
     
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    I know some were body color and some were black, my grabber is body color my Comet GT is black, I need to know where the body color ends and the black starts on the cowl.
     
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    I think it was along where the cowl was put together then caulked ?. Hard to find original cars where I live so hopefully someone else can confirm this.
    Hood hinges were bare metal phosphate coated and protected with oil. You can duplicate this finish with a paint or Google the process but last time I checked
    Supplier of the chemicals could not ship to Canada.
     
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    Well I thought was maybe someone would look at the pictures in the links I posted...

    Frank's Comet sans engine, hinges are rusty no doubt not painted...

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    On some years the hood hinges were painted body color if the engine bay was body color, but I would bet your 1972 Comet GT would be bare metal on hood hinges.
     
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    IIRC, your 72 Comet GT is a Dearborn-built car. Those had black engine bays, as best as I can tell. Here is a page from the Factory Assembly Manual (not the shop manual).

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    Looks like the Maritimer's are awake, good morning Paul.
    The shaded area does that indicate black paint ? I can't read the notes A, 1, and 2.
     
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    Wide-eyed and bushy-tailed Mike! Good to see you on here! It's been a while since I talked to you...
    Yes, the shaded area is black. The interface between the two colours goes up across the cowl-to-fender bracket almost in the middle. If you line-up the masking tape so the black is aligned with the fireweall.
     
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    This is my original, untouched engine bay, as-found with 19,000 miles on it when I first got the car.


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    It looks like they spray the engine bay black first without taping off the area, then taping off the body and spraying body color. This would explain the red peeling showing black underneath, the car was not originally black.
     
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    Mine was opposite to that. The yellow was peeking out from under the black on the top of the fender aprons. There was also evidence where the heater box washers were that the yellow was painted before the black, AND with the heater box installed...

    71 Maverick Grabber 082.jpg

    You can also see how the black faded-out towards the top of the firewall. The lip of the firewall/lower and upper cowl was all yellow on my car.
     
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    I thought the black terminated at the caulking line where the cowl pieces are joined....Looking at the photos I'm wrong again.
    Clearly the yellow paint is over the caulking.
     
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    Different assembly plants no doubt had some variation in their methods, seen it the lower cowl(area that meets firewall) painting of '69 Fairlane/Torinos... It was body color on cars from Atlanta, KC & Lorain, while San Jose painted that area black... Same as underhood... Key here was San Jose also built Mustangs, those all had this area black... Guess what they built in Dearborn? Meaning their method was going to be as close to Mustang's as possible...
     
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    Aye man can you send anymore pictures of that?
     

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