Correct spatter paint for a 1969 trunk

davepl · Poncho Master!

Correct spatter paint for a 1969 trunk

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

This feature car appears to be original.

http://canadianponcho.activeboard.com/t63704870/july-2017-feature-car/

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

And another one, a low mileage example.

Judging by these two, I'd say the stuff your's was done with is not the correct shade.

http://canadianponcho.activeboard.com/t46488894/december-2011-feature-car/

Beaumont4008 · Uber Guru

I know the 69 chevelle and beaumont is black with Aqua spatter paint. I am sure the 69 pontiac would be the same .

-- Edited by Beaumont4008 on Friday 15th of December 2017 04:29:44 PM

davepl · Poncho Master!

Wow, I've never seen that green survivor before, what a great car!

Yup, my trunk is definitely wrong - but that doesn't bother me. But the Grail car needs to be right. I hope I can replicate that finish, as I remember it being a lot smoother than the thick stuff you usually get as spatter paint today. Color aside, the texture was kind of unique. I remember playing there as a kid. We didn't have to worry about accidentally getting locked in because your brother would usually intentionally lock you in anyway!

I think my mat looks like the right one though. It was quite different on my Bonneville, so I'd imagine it's an Impala mat as a guess?

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

davepl wrote:

Wow, I've never seen that green survivor before, what a great car!

Yup, my trunk is definitely wrong - but that doesn't bother me. But the Grail car needs to be right. I hope I can replicate that finish, as I remember it being a lot smoother than the thick stuff you usually get as spatter paint today. Color aside, the texture was kind of unique. I remember playing there as a kid. We didn't have to worry about accidentally getting locked in because your brother would usually intentionally lock you in anyway!

I think my mat looks like the right one though. It was quite different on my Bonneville, so I'd imagine it's an Impala mat as a guess?

I would agree with you on the texture. Years ago, I mistakenly used something that looks similar to those 2 69's on my 65 Acadian (before I knew better). It was quite thick. The other problem with it was water ate it up. My trunk weatherstrip at that time was not perfect and a little bit of water would make a mess of the stuff.

NOS · Poncho Master!

my '69 442 had black with aqua trunk. Harmons Chevrolet always said any thing '68 up would be black with aqua (US cars). Splatter paint gives good coverage so people tend to use too much. Also let it dry for a few days and then give it a light spray of clear laquor to seal it.

Dale @ NOS

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Dale, the light coloured stuff in the first post here looks familiar. Is it from earlier models, like around 63-64 era maybe?

ABC123 · Uber Guru

This is a close up of my original trunk (July 17 Feature Car)

trunk colour.jpg

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

seventy2plus2 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

I can get you a photo's from a couple unrestored 1970 trunks if you want.

NOS · Poncho Master!

Carl Stevenson wrote:
Dale, the light coloured stuff in the first post here looks familiar. Is it from earlier models, like around 63-64 era maybe?

the earlier cars '64-67 and maybe earlier had gray with white, again again Harmon's info. Although I have seen diferent shades of gray.

Dale

ABC123 · Uber Guru

"the earlier cars '64-67 and maybe earlier had gray with white, again again Harmon's info. Although I have seen diferent shades of gray.

Dale"

50 shades of chevy truck grey.jpg

Sorry dale, I couldn't resist biggrin

The different shades could be different dye lots used during the production year.

Like the grill.

3 different shades of grey paint used in 1969 as Mark has pointed out in the past.

davepl · Poncho Master!

If you could clean a patch and get a well-lit, sorta close up photo that'd be great! I'm sure a body shop could sort this out, but then they guessed wrong on one of mine, so better to be sure!

North · Guru

Here is the untouched trunk in my 69 2+2 hardtop. 2016-10-28 082.JPG 2016-10-28 080.JPG

North · Guru

It is the same typical speckle seen on 69 GM's made in US plants (except for California built cars that had a thicker fibrous paint)

North · Guru

This picture is of my friends 69 2+2 ragtop, also untouched trunkpan. Note that on ragtops the body color would be heavily oversprayed through the top well opening first (Mayfair Maize in this case) and then the trunk speckle was applied after. I don't know if anyone repops the convertible specific decal. (the car was later painted white so you can see both yellow and white on the trunk hinge supports)

69 2+2 328.JPG

North · Guru

The color in the speckle of both cars is identical, the convertible pick was outdoors so it shows the color better.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

North wrote:

Here is the untouched trunk in my 69 2+2 hardtop.

I know this is sidetracking a bit but wow, is that nice!

North · Guru

Yeah both our 2+2's are blessed with amazingly clean bodies for Canadian cars, what looks like rust in the ribs of my hardtop trunk floor is actually just red alberta dirt.

davepl · Poncho Master!

John's red coupe looks how I remember my own car, but the Maize convertible one has much bigger aqua "dots" of color, it seems. I wonder what the big variance is?