In <3469F375@duck.nsc.miami.edu>, REICHLE, CHRISTOPHER wrote:
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>Soundsmore like a bad bondo job...
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>Was cleaning up my B the other day and found that on the body panels,
>under the doors, is a uniform stip of no-so-smooth paint. The strip
>is even and straight, with the paint above it being nice and smooth
>and the paint below it seemingly painted over a slightly rougher
>surface. The strip is exactly mirrored on both sides of the car,
>which has been repainted a few years hence by the previous owner.
>
>So, my question is, could my 73 'B have been originally fitted with
>some sort of trim along the bottom of the bodypanels between the
>wheels? ...or is it more likely that someone _else_ had put
>aftermarket trim on there which a later owner had pulled off at paint
>time? ...or?
There is a strip of kind of pebbly paint on all of the 73's I have
seen (my own included) in a belt line below the door. For this reason
I believe it was intentionally put on at the factory, probably in a
vain effort to forestall the dreaded tinworm.
A. B. Bonds
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