C2 hood paint margin

[Gary B.]

Yesterday I had a chance to judge chassis on a '63 which top flighted and was a beautiful car. I have to admit that I can never seem to remember what a correct paint margin is supposed to look like. My co-judge thought the margin on the car we judged was spot on. Attached is a photo. In comparing the photo to the text in the new edition of the '66 TIM&JG I note that the margin in the photo doesn't have a "rough" look to the edge as does the photo in the '66 TIM&JG, but I presume the owner of the '63 leaned toward perfection when the hood margin was created. So, I have two questions: 1) what do others think of the paint margin in the attached photo?and 2) The '66 TIM&JG says the outer lip was "masked", not "taped off". What's the difference between masking and taping. Since masking tape comes to might, I thought masking and taping would be identical.

Thanks,

Gary Beaupre
Northern California Chapter

[Jack H.]

Re: C2 hood paint margin

I like what I see in the photo, black out paint flowing 'sloppily' toward the outside and forward edges of the hood in the viscinity of the hinge...

What we typically see is a hood that was painted off-car using masking tape to make the parting line 'perfectly' follow the outside contour of the hood's bottom side reinforcement.

Hoods were painted and then blacked out on-car which is why the hood hinges (and areas nearby) have black out on them. As for the masking distinction, here's the way one senior judge explained it to me...

Think like you're an assy line painter doing the backout. There's no time to apply and remove masking tape. You hold the spray gun with blackout paint in one hand and a moveable mask (e.g. a piece of cardboard) in the the other. The finished parting line is rather erratic and sloppy as you move both the spray gun and mask along the outer rim of the hood.

At the forward/bottom of the hood, your cardboard mask hits the outer fender and naurally stops. Paint naturally forms an overspray pattern onto the inner fender and along the forward edge of hood. Crisp, straight parting lines that are perfectly uniform aren't typical factory production work...

[Gary B.]

C2 hood paint margin

Jack,

Thanks for the clear explanation. That helps a lot. So the use of a cardboard mask explains why body color is seen to continue around the inside corner and 1/8" or so up the vertical plane. Yes?

Gary

[Wayne W.]

Re: C2 hood paint margin

Jack,

Thanks for the clear explanation. That helps a lot. So the use of a cardboard mask explains why body color is seen to continue around the inside corner and 1/8" or so up the vertical plane. Yes?

Gary

No cardboard was used. It was a mask fixture that clipped around the hood ledge.

Here is the mask on the C3 cars.


The midyears had a small split seam that shows in the blackout. The midyear BB hoods showed what looks like finger holes in the mask near the same location.

[John D.]

Re: C2 hood paint margin

wayne,
I learned something here...thanks for sharing...

jd

[Patrick T.]

Re: C2 hood paint margin

I was just looking through the archives on this subject because every blackout picture I see seems to be different. Maybe it depends on who did it at the factory and what day it was and what kind of mood they were in. Here is another good thread with lots of pictures. PT

https://www.forums.ncrs.org/showthre...ckout&uid=3827