The body shop that is going to paint my car has completely cleaned the paint off of my trim tag. They said they would mask it off and keep it just the aluminum color when they paint the fire wall. Isn’t it supposed to be the same satin black as the fire wall? Also, is the Flat black supposed to continue over the top lip of the firewall under the Cowl Vent Panel, or is it supposed to stop right at the top firewall lip?

This is a picture of my TT before my restoration. You can see the TT was painted with the firewall and on some cars (not all) the TT was oversprayed white or in my case the body color. The firewall paint break line was at the top of the firewall and it wasn't a tapped line it was a somewhat a overspray line.

Roger
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z177/roger62305/TTpaintFWpantbreak.jpg

The white TT's are a 67 only.
The 68-69 may have had some body color overspray however the majority of them were Firewall black

Go to CRG, search "firewall", and you'll get pics of what the firewall blackout is supposed to origionally look like. It varies.

At least on 69s, the trim tag was put on the bare shell BEFORE any paint was applied (bare metal behind it!). So the tag was painted black when the firewall was.

I always thought the trim tag was painted the same black as the firewall, but with white letters?

I always thought the trim tag was painted the same black as the firewall, but with white letters?

ah no

I think the white letters you are seeing is just the paint coming off the raised letters/numbers and that is the actual aluminum coming through. My body shop without asking me removed the tag, removed all of the paint, then painted the firewall. Now my tag is bar aluminum. I didn't like it at first, but now I sort of do. I just reattached it with nice looking allen head bolts into the original holes.

-Kevin

Too bad they removed the tag. That always makes me think the car is stolen or has something to hide. I'd recommend you have it re-attached using the original style rivets.

I too didn't like this at first, but now I don't care, as its my car that I've owned since '82. If you saw the entire car, you would say it fits the theme anyway. If it were a Z28 or something rare, it would be a big deal without any paperwork, but a '68 RS isn't as big of a deal without the original documents.

-Kevin

The body shop that is going to paint my car has completely cleaned the paint off of my trim tag. They said they would mask it off and keep it just the aluminum color when they paint the fire wall. Isn’t it supposed to be the same satin black as the fire wall? Also, is the Flat black supposed to continue over the top lip of the firewall under the Cowl Vent Panel, or is it supposed to stop right at the top firewall lip?


Here is my original paint 69 showing how uneven the paint line is from side to side. Tag is black with body color overspray on the top lip:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r206/OAKLYSS/driverfirewall.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r206/OAKLYSS/passfirewall.jpg

White TTs are not just on 67s There are some 68s with it too