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Corey Bowcutt

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Front fended interior surface finish
« on: August 16, 2021, 08:19:34 AM »
I am trying to figure out how the inside surfaces of the front fender were finished leaving A. O. Smith.  These are some of my thoughts. 

The fenders I presume were painted off the car (at ford) because I know the screws are not painted? 

I presume the fenders were red oxide epoxy primed before body color was applied? 

From the pictures shown below that I pulled from thecoralsnake.com it appears the inside of the fenders were painted body color.

So were the insides in fact painted body color or was it red oxide with just body color overspray or...

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Re: Front fended interior surface finish
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2021, 09:10:38 AM »
In my opinion that color is not the original red oxide.
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Re: Front fended interior surface finish
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2021, 09:17:28 AM »
Original fenders were red oxide with body color overspray on the backsides

Original inner aprons were usually bare steel with a blackout, the bottom surfaces of those aprons is typically unpainted or lightly painted.

The pictures you found have a liberal interpretation of both. (Thats the nice way of saying it could be better)

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Re: Front fended interior surface finish
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2021, 09:24:13 AM »
Thank you Pete.  That is what I figured.

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Re: Front fended interior surface finish
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2021, 09:57:53 AM »
Looks like the pics are of a red or orange car?  Would be hard to see that color over-spray on red-oxide.

Agree about red-oxide on the inner fender panels up top... there is usually just black over bare metal up there...

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