Here are pictures of an original paint 72 nose that had a plastic valance. You can clearly see that that bottom strip was black, and then masked off for the color of the car being sprayed. (in this case, white) In the third picture, the is a piece of the masking take that was not removed on the production line and stayed there under the plastic valance panel, protected since 1972.
Again, this was an original paint 70000 mile 72 Esprit I owned.
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