Re: Air vent grate mesh

[The Dread Pirate Roberts <svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com>]

OK, I've been bragging that my car has "original paint and is still lookin' 
good" all
these years - now I can check it out for certain!

Gary McCormick
San jose, CA

CalSpeed@aol.com wrote:

> I learned something interesting about the Air Vent a few years ago.  It
> appears that the air vent was placed on the rear shelf area of the car when
> it went through the painting process at the factory in Japan.  Whatever the
> color of the car would be the color of the vent.
>
> Which leads to another interesting bit of Roadster Trivia.  If you want to
> check if the car has ever been repainted all you need to do is to look
> underneath the rear shelf cover and look for the grey rectangular paint mark.
>  What is this paint mark?  That is where your air vent sat when your car was
> being painted.  Kinda cool huh?
>
> Calspeed
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