Does the battery tray get painted the body color or just black?

[Ghoste]

I've never owned one and I don't knoe that any ro all of the cars I am looking at haven't been restored but I seem to have a lot of photos of 71 and 72 B-bodies with painted trays.  I don't see many of the pics I've taken showing predominantly black ones until after that.  Like I said though, this many years out and not knowing the history of the cars means that I haven't proven a thing.  It does make me wonder though.

[71mopar383]

Who cares if the under hood is painted black its your car who wants to look like everyone else.  Is it also a sin to paint your motor red instead of orange or turquoise?

[E5 Charger]

I started to research the net (including ebay) for any photos of 3rd gens I could find, and most of them had black battery trays. I also saw a white 73 in person, about a month ago, that was being restored and he painted it black. There must be members out their with original engine compartments that can prove this right or wrong. I will be painting and detailing my engine compartment this summer, so I would like to know what is correct.

[69bronzeT5]

Mine is currentley black but its not paint...its covered in dirt and grease. But if you scrape some of the crap away, you can see the T5 underneath

[Nacho-RT74]

NICE PIC... I WAS SEARCHING ABOUT THE STRAPS SETUP, with a separated extra bracket beside the welded one.
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,36226.0.html

there is something wrong on that pic... is imposible get the bolt on body color and the bracket in black don't you think ?

Do you think bolt would be mounted on paint moment at assembly line and then removed to fit the bracket ?

BTW, tray looks black to me on that pic... what does look red is the battery itself on base

I added some arrows that look like body color on the tray I was talking about. The picture is not the best so who knows. From memory it is an original owner car and I never paid much attention because I thought they were assembled using the same methods as the earlier B bodies. Perhaps the owner updated and detailed the car so some of the items may not be factory correct.

I don't know about the bracket for the battery hold down being black. If the battery bracket was installed when the car was painted I am surprised the battery tray wasn't.

yeah I know you wre talking about those areas, but those points you are pointing are the battery "lips" on battery base, used on some cars to be pressed to keep batery fixed againts tray, instead use top straps

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Who cares if the under hood is painted black its your car who wants to look like everyone else.  Is it also a sin to paint your motor red instead of orange or turquoise?

Umm....yeah  

[71mopar383]

Who cares if the under hood is painted black its your car who wants to look like everyone else.  Is it also a sin to paint your motor red instead of orange or turquoise?

Umm....yeah  

Im guessing you dont agree.  Dont you guys get tired of seeing the same body colors same engine colors on mopars.  I actually thing some of you guys head would explode if some used a GM Victory Red off the new trucks or Dark candy apple off the new Mustangs.  Im not saying a Hemi Orange Chargers arent good looking but does everything have to date correct?  I told a guy in our local club I was thinking about putting a R/T tail stripe on my 71 he told me that it wasnt a opt in 71 I said I didnt care I liked it.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Its your car.... you do as you please.....you obviously missed the in my post above

[Ghoste]

Chris, you have to try and remember that Troy is the only one around here with an onsite sarcasm detector.

[69_500]

Dont you guys get tired of seeing the same body colors same engine colors on mopars.

I actually don't get tired of seeing the same factory colors and engine colors on mopars. But that is just my opinion.

And I also never have a very good sarcasm detector handy for online use anyways.

[Ghoste]

Nice job on the Camaro and excellent point on car shows.  I wonder how many of these cars were still 10% correct within a year of being sold when new? 

[Nacho-RT74]

didn't know those scoops on 70 bees were functional!!! GREEEAT!!!

[Dodge Don]

Battery tray should be painted body colour.

[The70RT]

Battery tray should be painted body colour.

So maybe we should lock the thread........I'm glad we finally figured it out.