68 Charger Pinch Weld Blackout

[Troy]

The pinch weld is more to hold the car together. These folded gaps (right side of picture) are for draining water:


In that picture you can see nice pretty paint where the black peeled off while we were working on it. In this next picture you can just barely see the black since the lighting is pretty washed out. It appears gray but you can definitely see that it was sprayed with no masking.


Troy

[charge69]

Very interesting, Troy. With the ragged-azz way this was sprayed, it seems more there to have a little rust prevention rather than to hide the pinch welds! Anyway, I have never seen in person a blackened pinch-weld area on a Charger. Actually, let me say, I have never NOTICED a blackened pinch-weld area on a Charger.  Mine definitely did not have it.

Actually: off topic.  My Charger has a SPD of 314 which was a Friday in 1969. There were a number of places things were "left out or off" that suggests it really was a "Friday" car!  Or, maybe, a "hangover" Monday car!

[tan top]

Very interesting, Troy. With the ragged-azz way this was sprayed, it seems more there to have a little rust prevention rather than to hide the pinch welds! Anyway, I have never seen in person a blackened pinch-weld area on a Charger. Actually, let me say, I have never NOTICED a blackened pinch-weld area on a Charger.  Mine definitely did not have it.

Actually: off topic.  My Charger has a SPD of 314 which was a Friday in 1969. There were a number of places things were "left out or off" that suggests it really was a "Friday" car!  Or, maybe, a "hangover" Monday car!

haha        ,  there was a number of things , either left off  , not done correctly  , or  odd bolts  put in or left off ! on mine  & my  SPD was B22 ,  November 22nd  68  , which was a Friday    thinking mine too must of  really been built  on a Friday afternoon or  first car down the line  on a Monday morning   

[tan top]

Charlie, I believe the drum cars that had Magnums installed had the drums painted red but I'm not really sure. I do know my drums were unpainted and, eventually, rusty from the factory. My Charger came with black wheels and full wheel covers from the factory.

Like I said my buddy that was helping with my restoration had some "Hemi-orange" engine paint left over and, on the spur of the moment and without me being there, painted the drums with it kind of as a joke! I know it isn't stock but it would be really easy to fix .  I kinda like the painted-drum look and left it that way.

have a read here    :

  http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,4972.0.html


sorry for the mini hijack CC68 , but its all usefull charger info   

[charge69]

Very interesting thread about the red brake drums, Tan Top !  Mine are probably lighter than the originals being that they were painted with leftover engine paint but, my R6 Red with the lighter orange/red drums looks OK to me.  Of course, you gotta know,  I am colorblind enough to not be able to pass a color blindness test!   I did not find this out until I went to USMC boot camp in Feb 1966 ! All that time growing up and I never knew !!

[TexasGeneral]

If it were mine I would base the decision of blacking out on the base color... dark color don't bother... bright color, black it out.

[TexasGeneral]

oops

[BrianShaughnessy]

Sinnamon had pinch weld blackout ....   or at least the tattered remains of it.   
  Will be repainting that detail on soon enough.  Probably just use a spray can of black rock chip paint.