The top of the cowell should be a satin black. The entire car body would have been dipped in primer, I assume for 74 it would be red oxide, which to some looks like a brownish colour. The top of the cowell as well as the firewall would have been painted satin black, along with the rest of the engine compartment. The black paint should be sprayed to the bottom of the firewall overlaying the primer. There is no direct line separating the two. Black is oversprayed onto the primer bottom (which should be left in red oxide). Then the metal dash gets painted with the same overlaying technique at the top of the cowell. My 77 is black and it really didn't make much difference at that junction because it was the same colour. On my 79 which is silver, I masked off the dash at the bottom of the windshield line before I painted the cowell top. May not be 'factory correct' but I think it looks a bit neater.
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