62 side cove louvered molding blackout

[Anthony P.]

The Judging manual indicates that the side cove area where the louvered molding on a 62 goes is blacked out. Can someone please post a picture showing this blackout (preferably showing the blackout without the molding in place, but any pic will be helpful)?

Also is it a semi-flat black finish?

Thanks,

Tony

[Mike M.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

none of the fiberglass is blacked out, just the cove moulding itself, sparing the horizontal ribs that show the moulding's chrome plating. mike

[Anthony P.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

Ahhh..... Thanks for clarifying that.

Tony

[Mike E.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

Actually, the front face of the cove area is blacked out. That's the area that would be parallel with the front of the car. (Probably the best way to describe it is the area that on a 58-61 has an insert that the spears leading edge fastens through. It was semi-gloss black. When you look at a car that is body color in that area, it's obvious that the car has had a repaint and attention wasn't paid to detail.

[John F.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

The front face on the inside of mine is black. #0029

[Terry B.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

If we are discussing the area I think we are then my 62 is body color and I believe that I have original paint. Are we talking about the area that forms a "cave" into which the chrome insert fits?

[Mike E.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

If we are discussing the area I think we are then my 62 is body color and I believe that I have original paint. Are we talking about the area that forms a "cave" into which the chrome insert fits?

If that area that the leading edge of the louvers buts up to is not blacked out, you do not have original paint.

[Terry B.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

I've had two C1 knowledgeable NCRS members inspect the car and specifically asked one about the paint neither stated that the paint was not original. The previous owner certainly believed it was original paint. Also when I read the judging information description of original paint it all seems to match. This is the car that Dale Pearman wrote about in the fall of 1994 where he mentioned your name in regards to RPO 684 (metallic brakes but not heavy duty shocks), do you have any knowledge of that car that Dale may have passed alone that I might like to know about? I'm at work right now so I don't have access to all my records.

[John M.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

Anthony: Perhaps the 3 attached photos might better clairfy what Mike McCagh and Mike Ernst have described. The photos show the correct paint detail for the 62 side cove.

[Terry B.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

That is the area I'm talking about. I wonder how they got black out in there but no body paint. At any rate if my paint isn't original then my car is no longer a BowTie candidate and I can restore it without a guilty conscience.

[John F.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

Mine is exactly like John M's pictures.

[Anthony P.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

JohnM, Thanks for those pictures. That is exactly what I was trying to understand.

Do you know if there is any blackout on the inside edge of that small lip (the small lip that goes just over the front edge of the grille molding where it slides in)? You probably would not be able to see in there without a small mirror.

Thanks

Tony

Anthony: Perhaps the 3 attached photos might better clairfy what Mike McCagh and Mike Ernst have described. The photos show the correct paint detail for the 62 side cove.

[Mike E.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

Not intentionally, but don't forget, this was assembly-line production, and they just quickly blew a little paint in there and moved on.

[Mike E.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

Don't toss the baby out with the bathwater. It's always possible a previous owner did something there, and a small bit of paint work does not disqualify the car. Make sure before you restore. There are restored 62's everywhere--there are only 6 or 7 62 bowtie cars.
Mike

That is the area I'm talking about. I wonder how they got black out in there but no body paint. At any rate if my paint isn't original then my car is no longer a BowTie candidate and I can restore it without a guilty conscience.

[John F.]

Re: 62 side cove louvered molding blackout

Just took a mirror to mine and it looks like a little overspray of the body color on the rough fiberglass.