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Hey there. Can you guys open your doors and upload me some pictures of how the black upper and lower portions are painted on the inside of your doors (above and below the inside door panels). This is sort of hard to describe here. But basically I need to know where to stop the car color paint and start the black inside door paint. Where is that seam? Is it covered by weather stripping in the jams? Any pictures would be greatly appreciated!

I think I get what you mean. My '66 has door paint where no trim is installed. The insides of the doors are the same color as the areas where there is no panel or trim, but the paint is more of an over-spray look, not shiny at all. Where there is trim, the paint is he same over spray looking application. I tried a picture but it didn't turn out well enough for an explanation. I hope this helps?

Will these pictures of my 1966 Coronet 500 help?

Richard

The original interior door paint.





After I repainted the car Yellow.

Exactly what I tried to portray....

Awesome! Thanks. So if I'm not mistaken here. From the looks of your picture of your original door, is what I highlighted here the portion that should be black? It runs all the way down the side of the door too, correct?

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The gasket is the delineation point. Paint the outside first, past the gasket area, then mask off the outer color at the gasket point and paint the interior color.

SmartPatrol Wrote:Awesome! Thanks. So if I'm not mistaken here. From the looks of your picture of your original door, is what I highlighted here the portion that should be black? It runs all the way down the side of the door too, correct?

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Yes sir, that is correct. It's easier to see when looking at the picture below, as it shows where my cars original light green metallic paint was sprayed and where the original black interior door sheet metal paint was sprayed. When you open your doors, you want to see the cars exterior body color on all of the doors interior sheet metal EXCEPT where you see the black paint on my original factory painted door. When your doors are closed, you want to see only your cars interior sheet metal color, which on my car was black originally. It's a bit confusing when looking at my repainted door, because I choose to custom paint all of the door and quarter window interior sheet metal Yellow to match my new Yellow exterior body color. The weatherstripping that wraps around the sides and bottom edge of the doors makes a great paint color break line between the exterior body color and the interior door color as you can also see in my picture below. Does that make any sense?




One other important thing that you can see in this second picture below, is a black glue line around where the interior front door panel is attached to the door. That glue line represents where the plastic water shield should be attached to the door sheet metal and behind the door panel before you install the front door panels on each side. The water shields should also be installed in the same way back in the quarter window area before the rear quarter panels are installed as well. Failure to install these plastic water shields will lead to water damage to your door panel backboards!



If you want to go the easy route, you can purchase a set of the correct pre-cut reproduction plastic water shields on ebay as seen in the ebay auction link below. You can also go to somewhere like Home Depot and buy some heavy duty rolled plastic and use your door panes as templates to make your own, but you don't want to use to thin of a plastic, or you won't get good durability or moisture control.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/171016903033?ssP...1438.l2648

Hope this helps.

Richard