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Originally Posted by Mulsanne Blue
Very Cool! Thank you!! This clears up somethings, I always thought BO happened after body paint. Around the windshield lip-edge, is that glass-seal primer or blackout? It also appears that the clips were installed before body paint. When the instrument was painted, was it masked off? If so, did they use a shield designed for that purpose? Notice that the fender support was painted body-color. Again very cool, it's like walking back in time. When my car was being built in April '70, the crowds were starting to cheer-on the Big-Red-Machine at Crosley to their first NL pennant in ten years.
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Shields were used in paint for both elements and the IP was the most problematic for overspray. There was minimal taping. If taping was required then that became a two man element in separate element stages on the masking line.
Clips were installed in trim. If you have Echoes the print you need to look at is the second floor. You are looking at one Factory with Fisher Body acting as a subcontractor to Chevrolet. When you find the Fisher Body paint booths look to the left where you will see the hard trim conveyor (which was located below the surge (bank body bank as the hobby calls it) up on floor three) Next then follow the line and you will see the soft trim conveyor next in line. That long trim line is where the coach was assembled from the bare painted shell.