66 hood blackout & warranty book

[John Lolli]

How wide of a masking tape should you use for the outer lip when blacking out a 66 hood.

Also, what do the judges look for in the owner protection plan book during flight judging. Should my name be on the protectoplate ?? In theory I guess there should be no name and none of the dealer info filled out.

thanks

john lolli

[Bill Lucia]

Re: 66 hood blackout & warranty book

John, my POP (66 BB Coupe) has the original owners name, salesmans name, dealership stamp and the embossed codes for the car. Judges will look for matching numbers on the protecto-plate for your car.

regards

Bill #8620

[Jack H.]

Re: 66 hood blackout & warranty book

Don't believe the factory used masking tape during hood blackout, so question about how wide the tape should be doesn't make much sense to me??? Believe the blackout process was performed by painter sliding a free-form mask (like cardboard) along the outer hood edges resulting in sloppy/irregular paint line that departed from the inner support in the nose area at/near the hood hinges and black overspray spewed to the outer hood edges in this area....

On warranty book, much depends on who's judging and where. Objective is to make car appear as if it was configured for factory executed dealer prep. Since only the delivering dealer knew the identity of the end user/owner, car would have left the factory with warranty booklet and addressograph/multigraph plate affixed in the book. This means there would be NO dealer supplied details like dymo label of owner's name/address.

Now, I don't know of any judges who deduct for the presense of owner data in a warranty book/on the protecto plate! Removal of same would be destroying a piece of car history....

But, in my opinion, judges at NCCB/Bloomington do a much more thorough job of inspecting certain 'prep' items (glove box literature, window sticker, Etc.) than NCRS does plus there are different levels of NCRS Flight (Chapter, Regional, National). So, there's another degree of difference inserted based on who/where specifics of having your car judged. Bottom line, I agree with Joe on embossed data on protecto plate should match car, but I'll tell you only the really savvy judges check out individual field codes (carb ID code like H=Holley) against the car's current/shown configuration.

[John Lolli]

Re: 66 hood blackout & warranty book

It is my understanding that the blackout process was after the car was painted. The cardboard mask makes a lot of sense especially in a production environment. I am just amazed that they didnt get black paint all over the fenders and most everything else during the blackout process. I wonder what they used to mask the rest of the car ?????

john

[Dave S.]

Re: 66 hood blackout & warranty book

NCRS Judging criteria I believe is state of the vechicle at time of delivery. That would mean that the original owners name would be affixed to the Protect o plate on the GM logo tape. No name would be incorrect.

[Gene M.]

Re: 66 hood blackout & warranty book

Just to add to Jack's post.....The black out should fan out at the hinge area, and DOES NOT follow the offset of the hood lip corner line. The black out is also on the hinges. Degrees of coverage and sloppyness vary to the assembly line worker and/or the intensity of restoration of the restorer.

[Chuck S.]

Re: 66 hood blackout & warranty book

John,

In my opinion, it is doubtful that ANYTHING was used to mask the rest of the car during black-out. It would waste too much time and resources, and it wasn't necessary.

A skilled painter could use lower pressure and low volume to reduce the overspray to a minimum. In the black-out process, they weren't worried about having a great finish sans runs. Any overspray would have had to float in the air and settle back on the car, and would probably have dried before settling. It would, therefore, have been faily easy to wash or polish off.

I don't know about mid-years, but toward the end of the line, later cars went through a water tightness test, where water was sprayed on the car from many different directions to test for water leaks. They must have at least toweled the cars dry, if not washed/polished them. But, all this is strictly BS and speculation on my part.

Chuck Sangerhausen