Rear wheel wells
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Rear wheel wells
Did some digging and couldn't find a definitive answer...were the rear wheel wells body color or painted black from the factory? After doing some cleaning and removing years of road grime, it kind of looks like they were black in some areas and body color in others.
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on dark color cars they don't need to bother. basically the idea is that you want to look at the car and not see the wheel wells.
also plenty of dealers sold various undercoating and rust proofing.
best course of action is to look at your car, and maybe others in the same color-ish.
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^ Same. It appears they are coated with a rubberized black undercoating material on my VR car, but there are areas of red poking through in spots where the layer is thinner.
If you're going for a correct restoration, putting a flat (not glossy) black undercoating over the red painted surface should do it.
If you're going for a correct restoration, putting a flat (not glossy) black undercoating over the red painted surface should do it.
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Looks typical.
Unless the reinforcements are removed for painting or going concours original, if you were that keen, might have been worthwhile to have installed a later subframe while down there.
With some evidence of mud spray in usually protected areas - probably worthwhile investing in a replacement liner if it's missing or broken......assuming it's not NLA yet!
Unless the reinforcements are removed for painting or going concours original, if you were that keen, might have been worthwhile to have installed a later subframe while down there.
With some evidence of mud spray in usually protected areas - probably worthwhile investing in a replacement liner if it's missing or broken......assuming it's not NLA yet!
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