I striped my car down to bare metal last summer for a new paint job. I have been lucky enough to have owned it for 32 years so I know most of it's life history. But sometime in the first six years it got hit hard in the right front fender. That front fender had been replaced (no undercoating on it) and the pass door turned out to be blue. Plus when I took the fender off the outer edge of the cowl had the old fashion way of pulling out dents by drilling it full of holes and useing a slide hammer. They then left the holes as they were because it was under the fender.
Lucky me the only rot to be found was there was a tiny pin hole in the vinyl top/drivers side A pillar that I didn't even notice till I took the top off. Rotted out a 7" section of the windshield channel. It's kinda like an arcealogical (sp) dig---you get to play detective and try to figure out what the previous numbskull did. I know there was a thread a while back on some of the wonderfull hidden repairs some of you have found
Anyway today I was striping some of the smaller items like the hood and door hinges and the mirrors. My car is coded for G36 ---dual painted sport mirrors. I striped the pass mirror and then another surprise... the drivers side mirror is half chrome and half just painted pot metal. The pedestal part is chrome??? Just seems a bit strange to me. Was the standard mirrors on a 71 cuda chrome . It is also a remote interior controlled one and it does'nt look like the PO did this as the cables all look original?
This leads to other questions but I will ask them over in the body section.. This is long winded enough ( I was bored tonight ) Makes me think as the car was going down the assembly line when some one looked at the build sheet and went --OH crap---change order!!
Not the oddest find I'm sure but it is a little different. Doug
