Trunk paint

[chargerrtmikey]

Was the trunk fully painted at the factory or just the floor?

[chargerrtmikey]

For a 69 charger

[maxwellwedge]

Fully painted body color....but they didn't go crazy trying to do a great job. Bottom of the parcel shelf usually got nothing on it.

[Lord Warlock]

If it was coated with undercoating, the floor, package tray and wheelwell areas are body colored, but the insides of the rear fenders were coated with a greyish undercoating and weren't painted to match.  The middle of my floor never had much color on it and was covered with the grey plaid rubber mat.

[chargerrtmikey]

That's what my paint guy thought that just a small amount on the trunk floor was painted the body color

[Lord Warlock]

When i paint the trunk floor on mine i'll be painting all of the trunk floor y3 cream, may even paint the inside fenders and just recoat with undercoating afterwards.  It was a thin kind of undercoat there, compared to the stuff under the car. 

[bill440rt]

Fully painted body color....but they didn't go crazy trying to do a great job. Bottom of the parcel shelf usually got nothing on it.

Right.
Trunk inside should be body color. Paint was thin, but it got color. Especially the floor and rear body panel. The plenum under the window got a dusting of color, thinner as it got back toward the seat area.
The sides of the quarters got color, but again sometimes light and undercoating may not have gotten full coverage with paint.

[HeavyFuel]

Here you go.

Gray primer plainly visible in a lot of areas.  Thin paint.    Don't do this. 

[HeavyFuel]

two more

[chargerrtmikey]

Great info guys! Thanks

[Lord Warlock]

Always like to show progress when it occurs.  Seam sealed the new trunk floor in, welds complete. globbed on with a brush.  Looked pretty good considering the original sealer was all over the place.  factory must have used a bigger brush.   Center seam is new and could always smooth over better but it will be covered by a mat so not too concerned.  Primered the entire trunk floor after the pictures were taken, can add those later. 





Headliner is getting put in ...slowly...but a friend who has been doing it 20 years is better than me doing it, should be done on his next trip.  Changing the trim color to bluebird brown to match the dash and upper door panels.  It won't be in till later, but it's ready to go today.




Also pulled the rest of the old fuel line out, and started fishing the new fuel line from trunk to engine bay.  Getting the gas tank prepped to install. 

[Lord Warlock]

The gas gauge wire that plugs into the gas tank sending unit, does it feed through one of the upper floor holes near package tray or the side? Found a wire with a grommet attached mixed into the tail light wires when pulled out of the way previously.  Only thing i can think of for the connector is for the gas tank, nothing else back here uses that type of connector.  Will climb in and see where i can feed it tomorrow.  Have to touch up the gas tank straps, not sure what color to paint them, new tank is going in unpainted, maybe cleared.

[hemi-hampton]

The underside of mine got some paint. LEON.