The 1960 - 1966 Chevrolet & GMC Pickups Factory Correct Restoration Thread

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Originally Posted by aotte1

Jon,

Thanks for sharing very useful information, on how the bed was painted.

Do you have similar knowledge on how the cabs, hood, doors, and fenders were primed and painted. Have found black primer on some of these parts too.

Les

That's still a learning process Les. What I do know, again, is that everything was dipped in black primer just like buying NOS parts. The complete front end was painted over the black primer. Now the cab is where that changes. Every one I have seen, the cab and doors where the paint fades off of factory paint its red oxide underneath. I know from cutting cabs apart that these cabs were not dipped as there's bare metal between the layers. Doors however , I have several NOS doors in black primer. Im guessing the doors were shot in red oxide primer over the black while the cabs were being prepped, then painted in body color with the doors mounted to the cab.

Every book I have from Chevrolet and GMC states these trucks were factory painted in Enamel while the touch up paint you find from this era for these trucks is a can of Lacquer . The old saying was , " You can spray lacquer over enamel but you cant spray enamel over lacquer.