I was looking at this the other day with Stan. A picture would help.
 The front bumper filler is split by the stainless trim. The bottom (closest to the bumper) is body colour. The portion above the trim which sits under the grille appears to be painted silver on more than one car that we looked at. Under the silver paint is the body colour. It seems that they painted the complete piece body colour then painted the top argent grey like the painted part of the grille.

 Does anyone have access to an original paint car?

Like I said, body color. My 4 door has original paint on that filler panel top and bottom. Body color. Maybe the SD is different?

Now i am confused,  I have been looking thru old pics,  it seems to be a hodge podge

Some cars are painted body color above and below,  some are body color below and silver above.

Some are SD and some are plain sedans, etc, etc,   seems to be no set rule.

Ive looked at pics of cars in junkyards, some unrestored, some restored,   Its a bit of both.

I've never really paid atention to this,  but i will be checking every 66 i see from now on

Chevelles seem to be more body color.

Zooming in on the brochures, it looks like the Custom convertible is gray and the SD is body colour. The image is too grainy to be certain, and that doesn't necessarily mean that SD = body colour, Custom = gray. It could be Aztec Bronze = body colour, Blue = gray, or ???

Mine is body colour - but it had been repainted before I got it.

So the mystery remains....

Just  a side note.   1958 chevys all have black bumper valences from the factory.  No disputing that fact.

BUT,  almost all restored 1958 chevys seem to be painted by the owners for some retarded reasoning.

So the same could be true for restored 1966s.

The only way to tell is to look at a survivor car.  Thats the great thing about survivor cars!!! they are totally correct in every way.

Thats the same car i have pictured above.   For sure original with all the stone chips to prove it

You mean like this!!!!!:

If we can't prove it one way or the other which looks better? By the way nice car.

65sssd wrote:

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If we can't prove it one way or the other which looks better? By the way nice car.

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  I agree with Paul. There doesn't seem to be any logical commonality so what is right and what is wrong. Because there are so few original paint cars out there it is difficult to say. I scraped paint off a bumper filler off a car at Stan's that was painted red, under the red was silver, under that was red and the bottom coat was the black primer.
 I went through the registry and looked at every 66 that had a picture and personally I like the silver top colour with every body colour.

Sorry to go off topic but I am surprised that you didn't have this one Fred. Were you sleeping back in '06 when that was on ebay?

i had a few years when i didnt go on ebay, i had no computer and didnt really want one( for personal reasons),for the first year i was here ,i didnt have one at home(believe it or not!)

i borrowed all my friends and families,lol

-- Edited by 68sd on Friday 26th of August 2011 08:03:10 PM