69 RS SS BB

[chevycopo]

Can anyone tell me if the rear tail pan is supposed to be FLAT BLACK or SATIN BLACK?
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[SS454]

What color is the car [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img] Should be 60% flat or satin.
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[Mr Yenko]

BKH, would care to elaborate on this topic AGAIN.
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[Charley Lillard]

Arrgh... I say Gloss...Brian ?

[CamarosRus]

My Mostly Original Paint 70 SS L-78 Tailpan is definitely more "gloss" than a Satin or Even more gloss than a semi.....(picture attached) but Brian (and his painter) have the most experience at mixing this shade of black.....Chuck S/Seattle

[Winmon]

Muscle Car Reveiw July 01, pg 35 states "every original-paint Camaro I've documented has a gloss black rear tailpan". Article was by Brain Henderson. Then again in Jerry MacNeish's book it states on pg 206, Rear tail lamp panel - semi gloss black.

[bkhpah]

On every low mile unrestored black tail panel car the paint was gloss black. At the reunion two years ago there were four original paint X66 Yenko's. All were gloss. Joes Harrell SS 427 is gloss and my friends unrestored BB/RS in Latrobe is gloss. I can think of many more that I have seen. Never saw a satin original yet. I'll bet Jerry will tell you that he has been converted on this issue...BKH

[CamarosRus]

Brian, Just to clarrify your answer and put this subject to bed once and for all......do you have your painter use a FULL (unflattened)Single Stage GLOSS Black on these SS rear panels OR do you flatten the gloss any at all and if so what percentage?????.......Thank You, Chuck/Seattle

[Rat_Pack]

The tailpanels originally were not 100% gloss like the finish of the car. They were the same as the rocker panel black-out paint on cars with the Style Trim Group Z21. It is about a 70% gloss with variances in temperature, humidity, and the painter having an effect on the final finish shine. Any car that has ever had the tailpanel waxed will get shinier (?) with age as it was lacquer paint. I have taken semi-gloss lacquer and buffed it to a gloss and that is where most people think these are 100% gloss but they were not. You should be able to see reflections in the tailpanel but not like the rest of the car. The tailpanel paint on my car was original and the area covered by the bumper was about an 70 - 80% gloss but not satin, like Krylon semi gloss #1613, a little more shine than that.

The closest thing I have found is spraying Dupont #99A lacquer with a fast drying thinner to get the sheen I want. Also for rattle can users Duplicolor #T100 Universal Black is an excellent choice if sprayed in light coats. See attached picture of a car using the Duplicolor rattle can.

KurtS. can elloborate on a few unrestored cars that have more of a satin finish than gloss on cars he has seen. I too have seen this finish on some of these cars that were unrestored. A totally flat or very little shine finish would be wrong but nothing will be set in stone and this topic will never be done once and for all [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]............RatPack....................

[Charley Lillard]

The one I have looked at I specifically looked under the trunk lid near the Trunk weatherstripping in areas where you would not polish and they were Gloss. At Scottsdale 2 years ago there was a pretty neat British Racing Green SS 396 that still had the Gloss. Somewhere on my computer I have pics.