64 magazine FI/J56 road test -- rear chassis shot

[Wayne M.]

Don't mean to stir the pot, but I understand there may be some different opinions on the amount of chassis black-out applied in 1964 MY to various components on the underside of our favorite car .

Found this pic in my collection of mid-60's road tests (Sept 1964 Motor Trend). The car is a black coupe (or daytona blue -- hard to tell with B/W pics) and has L84, J56, 4.11's. By the manufacturers licence plate it's the same car that was road tested in the issue of Car Life Aug '64 issue.

I've linked the pic to Photobucket as a 650 KB file, so you can zoom for detail. Notice the black-out runs on the exhaust pipes, the mufflers; the muffler attach brackets; the strut rods. Hard to tell on the half-shafts but I vote black-out as well. Shocks are grey, so it's not an early '64. Some black-out got onto the grey spring in two locations.

Comments welcome.

[Michael H.]

Re: 64 magazine FI/J56 road test -- rear chassis shot

Don't mean to stir the pot, but I understand there may be some different opinions on the amount of chassis black-out applied in 1964 MY to various components on the underside of our favorite car .

What's all that black stuff all over everything? It everywhere, even on the half shafts, strut rods and it even looks like the backing plates and spindle supports have some too. That can't be right!

Excellent picture. Thanks Wayne.

[Gene M.]

Re: 64 magazine FI/J56 road test -- rear chassis shot

Wayne, how do I get "Photobucket" high resolution picture?
thank you

[John D.]

Re: 64 magazine FI/J56 road test -- rear chassis shot

A friend is in the process of restoring his 63 chassis. I told him to basically dip it in black and forget about it. But does he listen? Nope.
He's gonna screw it up and make the half shafts and boo coo other parts bare.
No one listens Hanson. Or very few listen. When in doubt on a 63-4 chassis make it black and you are safe. Remember a kid could paint up a 63 chassis. Leave the springs bare though.
Notice all the black on the mufflers. The spring on the 64 though appears to be bare or grey. Nice photo. Thanx, JD

[Wayne M.]

Re: 64 magazine FI/J56 road test -- rear chassis shot

Wayne, how do I get "Photobucket" high resolution picture?
thank you

Gene -- sorry; I probably used the wrong terminology. I used the hosting site Photobucket to get around the 293 KB limit on the NCRS DB. So the pic you see is about 560 KB (I'm limited to 1 MB on my free Photobucket acount). This picture was obtained by scanning the page of the magazine on an Epson V750 PRO flatbed scanner, with de-screening box selected. This is to reduce the "dots" effect that you see when you look at a newspaper photo with a magnifying glass. Unfortunately, the "dots" of the original magazine picture are what limits the definition of the black paint runs (which is our prime interest here). Just noticed that the black-out overspray caught a spot on the spare tire lid.

In the meantime, I've played around with it a bit more, and I attach another attempt; slightly cropped. I'm submitting it at 206 KB; who knows what it will end up as on the DB site (P.S. it shows 152 KB after upload). Hope this helps.

Same article shows the front J56 finned drum and KO adapter (they removed the RF wheel to show the brakes).