When the undercoating was applied to the front wheel wells. What was installed prior to the undercoating? Was the plastic rear splash shield installed before or after the undercoating? What about the side marker lights and parking lights? Bumper brackets? Suspension parts? Anyone have pics of how it was applied?
First I think you have to seperate the wheel well standard undercoating that every car got from the optional full undercoating you could get.
The T/A pictured above is a standard everycar undercoating. It was also a Hamtramk build car. LA cars seem to be different on somethings. I'm not sure about the undercoating pattern differences if any, but just alway be aware of the plant and build date period. I know of three 68 LA built darts that I have looked at in the last 6 months that clearly have black primer-type underneath instead of the grey primer that other plants used on Darts. I'm pretty sure LA built E-bodies got black underneaths instead of grey like Hamtramk. Anyone have an E-body LA built car with a super mint underside???
My 71 Challenger R/T A/C car has full undercoating. My rear sway bar has undercoating on it.
The original undercoating didn't get far enoungh on Troy's T/A to reach the bumper brackets.
The front fender side markers are sort of debatable if they got undercoating on the back or not.
Troy actually found factory blackout paint behind his front valence. That was strange.
I asked and he said the side marker, parking lights, and splash shields were on before undercoating on his car. The amount of overspray varies a lot from car to car on those.
He has a couple thousand pictures of before, dissassembly, restored, and assembly pictures. IMHO, in some areas this car's underneath was nicer than the "176 mile" yellow Challenger T/A. Plus seeing the low milage climate-free parts disassembled gives you a better look than when assembled. Most cars that clean stay unrestored, but this one had the heads off at least once and the interior and paint were "just" worn enough that it was a poor example of an survivor. Troy's brown T/A only had 30K miles on it before he restored it.
