65 Inner Fender Fiberglass Color

[Dale O.]

I have a 1965 Coupe that has had the front clip butchered. Bubba did it so I am having to redo it. The rest of the car is undamaged and put together with gray and off white parts using off white bonding strips. So I was thinking of using gray parts with white bonding strips for the front. Would this be correct and what would the inner fender color be? BTW it is a May car.

[Barry K.]

Re: 65 Inner Fender Fiberglass Color

my '65 is a late Feb car (last VIN off the line in Feb '65).
Here are the inner fenders if it helps you

[Wayne W.]

Re: 65 Inner Fender Fiberglass Color

I have a 1965 Coupe that has had the front clip butchered. Bubba did it so I am having to redo it. The rest of the car is undamaged and put together with gray and off white parts using off white bonding strips. So I was thinking of using gray parts with white bonding strips for the front. Would this be correct and what would the inner fender color be? BTW it is a May car.

Wow, Barry, Kinda hard to see the fiberglass color through that black paint.

Dale, I would expect that late of a 65 to have mostly gray panels. In 65 the early cars were mostly tan glass as the year went on there was a change back to the gray stuff. However there could very well be tan glass scattered in, and tan bonding strips are common even after the change.

[Barry K.]

Re: 65 Inner Fender Fiberglass Color

Wayne
that's the way my car was when I bought it. To be honest I never realized that they were so "incorrect" as I get the impression they are from your comment.
Most C2's I've seen around here at shows tend to look the same as mine so maybe that's why I didn't know if they were incorrect.

Are you saying the inner fenders are suppose to be bare fiberglass, kinda like the heater box?

If mine are incorrect than my apologies to Dale for posting up pics of something wrong, I'm not trying to unintentionaly mislead him on how they are suppose to look.

I think I'll be looking closely at inner fenders on C2's while at Carlisle in a few weeks

[Donald T.]

Re: 65 Inner Fender Fiberglass Color

Wayne
that's the way my car was when I bought it. To be honest I never realized that they were so "incorrect" as I get the impression they are from your comment.
Most C2's I've seen around here at shows tend to look the same as mine so maybe that's why I didn't know if they were incorrect.

Are you saying the inner fenders are suppose to be bare fiberglass, kinda like the heater box?

If mine are incorrect than my apologies to Dale for posting up pics of something wrong, I'm not trying to unintentionaly mislead him on how they are suppose to look.

I think I'll be looking closely at inner fenders on C2's while at Carlisle in a few weeks

Barry,

The inner fender panels are supposed to be painted, and not bare fiberglass. So your painted inner fender panels are not incorrect. The original question was regarding the color of the actual fiberglass which changed over the course of C2 production.

[Joe C.]

Re: 65 Inner Fender Fiberglass Color

I have a 1965 Coupe that has had the front clip butchered. Bubba did it so I am having to redo it. The rest of the car is undamaged and put together with gray and off white parts using off white bonding strips. So I was thinking of using gray parts with white bonding strips for the front. Would this be correct and what would the inner fender color be? BTW it is a May car.

Dale:

My car, body build early May 1965:
Off White Resin: Floorpan, rear bulkhead, rear deck, taillight panel, rear valance, quarterpanels, rear inner fender baffles.
Light Grey Resin: Doors, hood, surround, cowl, gill sections, front lower valance, front inner fenders, front upper section.
Bonding strips are a mixture of off white and light grey

[Wayne W.]

Re: 65 Inner Fender Fiberglass Color

Wayne
that's the way my car was when I bought it. To be honest I never realized that they were so "incorrect" as I get the impression they are from your comment.
Most C2's I've seen around here at shows tend to look the same as mine so maybe that's why I didn't know if they were incorrect.

Are you saying the inner fenders are suppose to be bare fiberglass, kinda like the heater box?

If mine are incorrect than my apologies to Dale for posting up pics of something wrong, I'm not trying to unintentionaly mislead him on how they are suppose to look.

I think I'll be looking closely at inner fenders on C2's while at Carlisle in a few weeks

Barry, Do diss intended, but he was asking about the color of the glass itself. They are blacked out like yours, but you can see the original color in places the black never covered.

[Wayne M.]

Re: 65 Inner Fender Fiberglass Color

Dale:

Off White Resin: Floorpan, rear bulkhead, rear deck, taillight panel, rear valance, quarterpanels, rear inner fender baffles.
Light Grey Resin: Doors, hood, surround, cowl, gill sections, front lower valance, front inner fenders, front upper section.
Bonding strips are a mixture of off white and light grey

What do I have here ? An early '65 coupe (014xx). And I'm not referring to the red candy apple.

[Barry K.]

Re: 65 Inner Fender Fiberglass Color

ahhh, misunderstood the original question than. I thought he was asking what color the inner fenders should be, not what the fiberglass color was. sorry about the confusion.

[Donald T.]

Re: 65 Inner Fender Fiberglass Color

Here's something interesting. My May 65 AOS car has the tan color panels. Same color as the rear quarter in Wayne's pic. I stripped it down to bare fiberglass for paint, and I don't recall seeing any gray panels. Perhaps AOS had more of the tan fiberglass?

[Dale O.]

Re: 65 Inner Fender Fiberglass Color

Thanks for your help guys. I think I will go with the gray inner fenders. The back of the car looks like the pic that Midkiff posted with tan (off white) rear quarterpanel. By the way Barry, the high level of hasseling on this board is great, all in fun and helps make the day go faster. Your engine compartment looks great.

[Wayne W.]

Re: 65 Inner Fender Fiberglass Color

Here's something interesting. My May 65 AOS car has the tan color panels. Same color as the rear quarter in Wayne's pic. I stripped it down to bare fiberglass for paint, and I don't recall seeing any gray panels. Perhaps AOS had more of the tan fiberglass?

Could be, but I have never tried to correlate that. But the pictures show that the panel colors were inconsistant and that we can only say generally that the fiberglass was tan early and gray later.