Mike,
I am pretty sure that I was the one who had inquired about the paint runs on the fender for the Duster, not Dave. Honestly, I have NEVER seen any runs like that before which contradicts how the factory dipping process was. Are you trying to say that the fenders were not attached to the body when it went through the first phosphate dip (step 4) and that they were assembled onto the car prior to the second primer dip (step 7). I fail to see how time saving and cost efficient that would have been for Chrysler. Of all the cars I have judged at the AACA level, I have never seen anything as contradicting as the inside of that fender. Again, I have not seen every single car that Chrysler has put out (which I highly doubt anyone has) but I find that to be very, very unlikely that it would have occurred. The only logical explanation I could see is if the Duster had been in an accident and the body shop had hung it like that to prime it before installing it to paint and blend. Even with that, I highly doubt that they would have then went to the trouble of putting the second, darker primer color on.
Also, if all of Dave's other cars are such a joke, then I guess all of the cars after that are an even bigger joke in the OE competition since some peoples vehicles are far deviated from what the Valiant was. Again, I am going by pictures of what I have seen and other cars I have seen out at Carlisle prior to the Nats this year and even at Mopar shows AFTER the nats. Again, I have yet to see any car be ABSOLUTELY perfect as there is always some kind of flaw that is either over looked or done a certain way due to lack of funds, availablility of NOS parts, whatever.
