C1 judging of the floor pan from underneath of the car

[Charles H.]

Doing a body-off on my 1956 Corvette. Car has been completely stripped including the belly pan. The manual says the belly-pan is to be left as unpainted fiberglass. My car has stress cracking underneath that take away from a restored look because I know no way of reconditioning the belly-pan to take the cracking out. Will the judges except a paint that is the same color as the fiberglass or will they except the bare glass as it is currently?

[Loren L.]

Re: C1 judging of the floor pan from underneath of the car

Imagine your car's body on a stand as it circles through the booth for "blackout" - a decidely "unprecise" procedure, but you can figure out what MIGHT get hit with semi-gloss black just by simulating the paint gun in the wheel wells and where the paint is going to go.
If anyone gives you anything but a minimum deduct for cracking underside, be sure to award he/she with the "Trailer Queen Judge's Award".