1969 Superbee fender tag paint

[birdsandbees]

Anyone know if they were hung for paint as the car went down the line at Lynch Road?? vs the usual one screw, bend and spray?

Pulled mine today, removed a full layer of dirt underneath to find the original B5 blue.

I painted this engine compartment once in 1979/80 with black tremclad and again in 1989 in blue when I had the car repainted a bit deeper blue than B5. The tag has no signs of being bent up for paint and the fender has full paint under the tag. I know it's original as it's a one family car, mine.

Contemplating tearing the car down of all things chrome and drive train, to have it stripped and painted this winter. The hard decision will be to return to B5 or stick with what I've had for 26 years. A bit closer to B7.

[A12 Superbee]

Lynch road, bent and sprayed underneath I believe, at least mine was and its a Lych Road car.

Like everything of that era tho, there are exceptions to the norm.

A12's out of Lynch road did not have their tags painted either, they were raw, probably the same with other Bee's and Coronets.

[rt green]

B5 would look good.

[birdsandbees]

Thanks! Based on the even paint under the tag I can't see how the tag could have been in place when the car was sprayed. I know that's the factory paint under it.

Mind you the back of the tag looks to have a very light mist of blue in places, so maybe the paint just flowed out really nice under the loose tag.

Guess I'll see if I can strip the tag a layer at a time to see if I hit B5 on it, can't remember back to '79 if it was bare or blue.

[69CoronetRT]

Lynch road, bent and sprayed underneath I believe, at least mine was and its a Lych Road car.

Like everything of that era tho, there are exceptions to the norm.

A12's out of Lynch road did not have their tags painted either, they were raw, probably the same with other Bee's and Coronets.

From what I've seen, MOST tags out of the LR plant do seem to be painted but it does seem a high proportion of the A12 cars came without painted tags.
Gut feel. if this is a non-A12 car, it was probably painted.

Research continues.....

[6bblgt]

Lynch Rd. tags were NOT mounted on the inner fender when the cars were painted.  It's been stated that tags were attached by something similar to a paper clip in or around the windshield area, possibly "clipped" into one of the dash frame mounting holes.  The amount of paint on a fender tag varied as "overspray" (front and/or back) with vinyl top cars appearing to receive significantly less paint.

[birdsandbees]

Thanks! Mine's a Coupe (Sedan). 383 x 4 gear car.

[polywideblock]

are you  going back to B5 

[birdsandbees]

That's the hard decision I'll have to make, I've always found B5 a little light to my liking and why I painted her the colour she is in 1989.

Not sure what to do this time, but the more I look her over and take note of what I'll have to tear apart and replace just to paint her the less I'm liking the whole idea! 

[maxwellwedge]

Lynch Rd. tags were NOT mounted on the inner fender when the cars were painted.  It's been stated that tags were attached by something similar to a paper clip in or around the windshield area, possibly "clipped" into one of the dash frame mounting holes.  The amount of paint on a fender tag varied as "overspray" (front and/or back) with vinyl top cars appearing to receive significantly less paint.

All my Lynch Road cars have tags like stated above

[birdsandbees]

Thanks, like I said there is absolutely no indication this tag was ever bent up. Has what looks like a large R for an inspection stamp on the top right corner and another bump mid tag below the R, that I can't currently make out with a few layers of paint on it.