goofballs on parade..........

[48chebbie]

i have always seen this done,for as long as i can remember,and now,i see it worse than ever.
does every,single,goofball,that gets near the underhood area of a mopar,paint the freakin' engine compartment black???
whats worse,is,look at alot of these really nice,seemingly restored mopars out there,with beautiful paint,spotless immaculate interiors,flawless chrome,and pop the hood,and there sits an awesomely detailed engine,surrounded by black paint!!!
i wonder if any of these people (although most are "flippers") look at that ,and say,"oh yeah,that looks right".
i know alot are color changes,but,c'mon,in the time it takes to clear everything out,tape,mask,and clean,to apply that gorgeous rattle-can black engine bay paint job,they could have shot on some color.........preferably the color of the car,hint,hint,nudge,nudge,say no more,say no more!!! ok,my rant for today is over...................

[Brock Samson]

IT HIDES THE DIRT 

[48chebbie]

 

[69charger2002]

well for the 2-3 i have done black instead of body color.. i had no intention of taking the motor out anytime soon, and whatever the original color was under there is usually splotchy and grimy anyway.  black is easier to mask and not have to be perfect to look ok. ever shot an engine bay orange or B5 and it not be spotless under there first???. looks ridiculous if not done right. so i do it black, then later.. when engine comes out for whatever reason. voila. body color time
trav

[moparguy01]

my engine compartment is black. but of course my car is black. 

[73rallye440magnum]

In my situation pulling the engine wasnt really an option and I didnt want a B3 engine compartment with a top banana car...

[TK73]

I'll be doing mine in black...

[48chebbie]

i guess, to each his own. just to me,alot of times,looks like a bunch of GM,and ford guys got their hands on a mopar for the first time,and just don't know any better. first,it's paniting the engine compartments rattle-can black on our beloved chryslers. next thing you know,almost every goofball with a 68,69,70 charger for sale,will mention "the general lee",or dukes of hazzard to try and boost their ad.........................
oops,sorry,i see they already do...................................

[TruckDriver]

The guy I bought my car from painted the engine compartment black too.

[NYCMille]

Your absolutely right... this look terrible, a damn shame I tell ya'... a damn shame.

[Old Moparz]

I like black.

[plum500]

Mostly depends on "why" it's black for me -- when I got mine (and it still is) it was all rattle canned flat black for a quick and dirty cleanup. If that's temporary, whatever -- if it's hiding some things -- not so good, and a I hate to see everything in sight catch a blast of flat black...besides being a pain to clean up...just not good...

But, if it's a nice black paint job and it's not a black car? meh...it does seem a bit too chevy for me, and I don't really dig the looks of it as much -- especially with a brighter body colour... but in the end, to each his own...

[48chebbie]

well of course NYCmille,it's a black car.

[48chebbie]

i guess the ones i am seeing,that are crawling all over me,are the cars,that someone have torn apart,and restored,rebuilt,and repainted,and went to the trouble,of painting the engine compartment black,instead of doing the job right.
it is so comical,no kidding,99% of the re-done cars that i have seen,with the black engine bay spray job,also state a "full frame-off resto"!!!!
that gets me in the floor,wonder how they got all that unibody cut-out,and put it all back in....ROFLMMFAO!!!

[BigBlockSam]

i had no intention of taking the motor out anytime soon, and whatever the original color was under there is usually splotchy and grimy anyway. 

[dpm68]

Word.

[Kirkvkid]

I paint my black for the opposite reason.  I take my time, clean all the grime off, grind all the rust and paint, and then bust out the rustoleum and a brush.  Then I never have to clean it again, cause "it hides the dirt".  Plus I like the way it looks.  But my cars are just shy of junkers, so I know you arnt talking about me.

[48chebbie]

LOL

[Brock Samson]

 I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO SPRAY BOMB BLACK MY ROAD RUNNER!!!!! OVERSPRAY HERE WE COME!!!!!! Yaaaaa,.. HOOOOOOO!!!!



(sorry) 

[Dave22443]

Look, I'm as much of a MOPAR nut as the next guy, and yes, I've got a decent driver with a black engine bay, and no, my body color is not black.  It's yellow.  Bright yellow.  Bright chrome yellow.  With a black top.  And a black stripe.  And a black interior.  Including the trunk.  And a black grill and black tail panel.  So you open the hood, you stand there, and you see black inner fenders, fire wall and radiator shroud.  Its all black, except the underside of the hood, which is yellow.  And when I pull the engine to rebuild it this fall, I'm even going to paint it black!  I hate the puke green/blue/aqua "correct" color  and black makes the chrome pop 

I look at it this way.  Its my car.  I'm not going to sell it.  I plan to keep it forever.  And that bright chrome yellow paint is well... bright.    And in my humble opinion, having a bright chrome yellow engine bay would be just too much bright chrome yellow.  As it is, when I go to the shows, I seek out the shade.  Not because of the heat.  But just so people can look at the car without a welding mask on!

True, its not "Factory Correct", but then, neither is the bright chrome yellow paint.  Thats just the way I like it.  And when I can finally afford that rotissery (sp?) restoration, I'm going to paint the bottom black too.

Sorry, I haven't had much sleep lately so I'm a little irritable.  It just burns my #$%^@ when people nit-pick other peoples hard work.  As if they are somehow so much better than you because they have better stuff.  Like when they say, "Thats not a REAL R/T" as if to say your some kind of bottom feeding, scum sucking algea eater wanna-bee.

But you know what?  Despite all this, I think your car rocks.  Nice work.

[48chebbie]

i am not nit picking anyones car,if you like the engine compartment black,so be it,it's your car,do it like you want it. i am mainly targeting,for example,a challenger i saw on ebag,guy states,$50,000 spent on resto,"frame off resto",absolutely correct,and i don't know much about mopars!! beautiful car,red all over,and a black engine compartment........though it's correct,LOL.
anyone is free to do anything with their car they want,same as i will do with mine. again,i am not nit-picking anyones hard work,nor do i care about a "real R/T",cloning is cheaper,and easier to live with,and no numbers matching crap here either.
but,i will say this,in my own opinion,whether anyone likes it or not,i don't really care,if i buy a car from someone,a project,to build and fix-up,and i got to strip literally layers of rattle-can,gooped on,"my this looks great"black paint off the engine compartment,i consider the previous owner or owners to be complete morons,period. my 2 cents.

[Dave22443]

No, its cool.  You have your opinion and I have mine.  Its all good to me either way.  Besides, you wouldn't have that problem with my car as its not for sale.    I do agree with you about the Challenger not being correct.  If you advertise correct, then it should be correct.  If he had left that part out of the add, then I probably wouldn't have a problem with it.  He already showed his colors with the "Frame off Resto" line. 

I like your '72.  I had one years ago and I still miss it.  It was totalled by an 18 wheeler in a parking lot while I was at work.  (Mine and two other cars at the same time! - I just happened to be first in line)

But while we've got the soap box out, you know what really burns me?  A guy that plops down the cash for a pristine restoration, sitting back and collecting all the trophies at the car shows and bragging about how much "work" he did on it.  As if.

[48chebbie]

yep,the people that do that,are about as good as some of the folks around here. i don't know about other places,but around here,they have alot of these little "cruise-ins". and at these small car shows,they have a best of show trophy for the night. well,they charge a dollar a vote,for you to vote for your favorite car,and that one wins the trophy. this one loser,he has a "decent" 68 camaro,had a couple beer-guzzling buddies paint it,local trim shop sewed up plain black seat covers,greasy 350 slathered in bolt-on chrome,etc. anyway,he will send his grandaughter up there,with $20-$30 bucks,to cast votes on his car.
when we do have judged car shows around,this loser walks around,picking on other peoples cars,and says "my car is so much better,i have 20+ trophys my car has won".
has he ever entered it in a single judged car show here? nope!! ask him why,he just turns up his nose and walks off. way too funny.
folks like that are a joke.
i guess if you can afford to go out and by $100,000 show cars,then knock yourself out.
and the guy,standing there,showing off a beautiful,high-dollar,restored mopar,GM,or ford,and standing there with a mile-wide smile on his face,and some young kid walks up,ask him a question about the engine,tranny,something,and the guy stutters and bobbles,because he has no clue about ANYTHING on the car he owns!!
freakin' hilarious.................

[1fine69]

you know what it is? if you paint the motor orange and have a black sorrounding then that motor is in chip foose's words like a pearl ( or something like that! ) cause you open the hood and you get drawn to the motor first you don' open it and say wow look how good the inner fenders match the body color you look for that engine plant first!!! my opinion but i guess it depends on your taste. check out the one on my signature it's chromed out and of course the car was black as well but that thing looks SWEEEEEEEET!

[Ghoste]

First off, it was painted black under my hood by a previous owner and Brock, it doesn't hide the dirt.  I don't like it but it seems Mopar guys are the only ones who notice.   Of course, those are the only ones whose opinions matter to me much so...
I can't complain too much though because the last time I did, the previous owner logged on here and took me down pretty hard for whining about it.  He was right, of course, I've owned the car long enough that I should have changed it.

[captaindodge]

what gets me is when the ugly wrinkled rocker panel pinch weld is painted all glitzy and glam.   the marketing people at Chrysler were responsible for the pinchweld to be blacked out just like behind the grill needs to be blacked out. It just makes any car look better. but then I even have my door jams and inner trunk satin black

[andy74]

The guy I bought my car from painted the engine compartment black too.

same here,but when i pull the engine ill paint it to match

[hotrod98]

To each his own, but the only mopar that I would ever own with a black engine compartment is a black car. It's just that a black engine compartment in a mopar is wrong in every sense of the word. Ford, yes...Chevy...yes, Mopar...No. Right now I have 12 mopars and the only one with a black engine compartment is my black 69 Charger. If you can't afford to make it right or if you just don't have the ability to make it right then I guess you'll just have to live with it. 

[MOPARHOUND!]

Those guys painting their engine bays black are like guys on Mopar boards with "chebbie" in their handle.        J/K

Oh....by the way...........another vote here for body color mopar engine bays.

[472 R/T SE]

Don't forget the gray speckled painted trunk area. 

[Troy]

Well, my Barracuda has a black engine bay from one of the previous owners. I don't have the time to mess with it until the Chargers are done so it's going to stay black for the forseeable future. I leave the hood closed at shows so I don't have to listen to people telling me how incorrect it is. I just look at them and laugh because if that's the only thing they noticed as incorrect then they aren't very observant. The rest of the engine compartment is pretty ratty any way but I can drive it anywhere which is a lot more than some of the people with the correctly painted engine bays can say. I'd rather drive it than work on it any time.

Troy

[Dave22443]

Here!  Here!

Well said Troy 

[DarkAngel0816]

Well wow!  That is something that was correctly done with my car...the engine bay matches the color of the car.   

lol

Even if it did not...I would not care.  It is not original..nor is it going to be close to it...not for sale any time soon and it is mine.   

[Sinister68]

...I hate the puke green/blue/aqua "correct" color  and black makes the chrome pop 

Boy, I guess you hate my engine then...  

[andy74]

Don't forget the gray speckled painted trunk area. 

i did that,had to save the extra cash for performance mods,and i leave my hood and trunk closed when im at a show,so im the only one who knows(until now)but i could care less,its my ride and illleave it that way until time and funds permit,no harm no foul