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1967 Bumper Filler Color
The bumper filler panels under my headlights on my 67 are painted body color. I was told that this is incorrect for a 67. I was told that 66's are body color but 67's should be painted semi-flat black. What's correct?
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If you study 428ho4spd's pics (amazing car btw) you'll see that Fremont CA used body color. And here's an assembly line photo showing black. (based on the overspray, I believe it's Pontiac MI) |
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Thanks 242177P, my car was built in Pontiac so looks like I’ll be doing some painting. I’ve been following 428ho4spd’s post and i did notice they were painted body color. Agree that it’s an amazing car.
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Yes I believe there was one plant or so that painted them body color but the Pontiac plant definitely painted them black; whatever gloss level was, semi or satin.
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1967 GTO with 9820 Original miles.
PON 06A with painted body color (Sherwood Green) bumper filler panels. Note, 1968 upper T-3 Chris.
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1) 65 GTO Survivor. 43,440 Original Miles. “Factory” Mayfair Maize Paint with Black Pinstripe, Black Cordova Top, Black Interior, OEM Numbers Matching Powertrain. Purchased from the Lady that bought it new. Baltimore Built (11A). 2) 66 GTO Survivor. “Factory” Cameo Ivory Paint with Red Pinstripe, Red Interior. OEM Numbers Matching Powertrain. Tri-Power (OEM Vacuum Linkage), Automatic "YR" code (1759 Produced). Fremont Built (01B), with the Rare 614 Option. Last edited by 60sstuff; 10-10-2019 at 07:18 PM. |
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It appears that the correct color is black. It also appears that it varies from plant to plant or wasn't adhered to very strictly. A friend has an original paint unmolested 67 built in Framingham. I was finally able to contact him. He sent me this photo, his are black..
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What color is his car ? I’d love to see a pic of a umolested 67 built in Framingham |
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Well I stand corrected based on the Sherwood Green car. I remember reading it somewhere, likely the GTO Restoration Guide; guess there will always be anomalies.
FWIW both my PON 09A and 10A were black. |
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It’s gold. I’ll be going to a show this weekend with him and will get some photos.
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My Pontiac built original paint '67 is body color, Linden Green.
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1999 WS6 Formula, 1 of 175 1967 GTO Linden Green 4 spd, A/C, survivor 1967 Lemans convt 1967 Firebird 400 bench seat, deluxe interior, auto 1965 GTO 462, KRE unported D-port heads, Bullet 234/244 cam, th400, tight 10" converter, 3.73 gears, 87 octane, 3440 lbs. empty,1.59 60ft, 7.159@95.33 (1/8), a real daily driver, been totaled, rolled 3 times, hit a tree airborne. 1961 Catalina 2 door htp 1960 Ventura 4 door htp wife's car 1960 B'ville 2 door htp 1960 Catalina Wagon wife's car too |
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FWIW, my Baltimore (Jan) 67, a Kansas City (May) 67 I had, & a customer's Baltimore (Jan) 67 were all black. Years ago I helped someone finish another Baltimore (Dec 66) 67 car that he was taking for judging at a POCI convention (West Va. I think). He argued that painted (Cameo) was correct, I argued black. Judges ruled against him for the fillers being body color, but I don't know if they consider plant origin.
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I saw a 1967 GTO many years ago with just over 10K documented miles. It was positively unmolested that had 1 of each. One side was black and one was white (body color). Factory screw up?
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Thanks
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1967 GTO Sport Coupe 49,xxx orig.miles Champagne/Parchment 30 Original Owner Ordered PHS Documented Factory Options Second Owner |
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Appears to be an original paint Baltimore built car that just popped up on eBay.
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1999 WS6 Formula, 1 of 175 1967 GTO Linden Green 4 spd, A/C, survivor 1967 Lemans convt 1967 Firebird 400 bench seat, deluxe interior, auto 1965 GTO 462, KRE unported D-port heads, Bullet 234/244 cam, th400, tight 10" converter, 3.73 gears, 87 octane, 3440 lbs. empty,1.59 60ft, 7.159@95.33 (1/8), a real daily driver, been totaled, rolled 3 times, hit a tree airborne. 1961 Catalina 2 door htp 1960 Ventura 4 door htp wife's car 1960 B'ville 2 door htp 1960 Catalina Wagon wife's car too |
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My dad's Tyrol Blue 67 was a Pontiac Mi built car. This has been a 1 owner and has had one repaint in 1999 by me. The fillers were painted Tyrol Blue.
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66 GTO Nostalgia Super Stock/Street Legal Car 421 CID, stock block, Wenzler Intake, 2- Carter 750 AFB's, 3.90 Gears, Full Factory Interior, Full Exhaust, Stock Suspension 3750LBS 9.77@136.99 Multiple NSCA/NMCA World Champion 66 GTO 389 3x2, 4 speed, 4.33 gear, Montero Red 33K original Miles 67 GTO 2dr Post, 428, Tri Power, 3.55 Gears 80 Trans Am Black SE Y84 W72 WS6 |
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Well I am totally confused now. Seems like quite a few were painted body color in this thread.
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1967 GTO 416 5-spd streetcar 11's on HP low 10's 150 shot 1965 GTO 10-71 Littlefield high-helix retro/Bird (untuned) 8.44 @159 3500+lbs 10.5W's SOLD! 1964 421 GP-Sold 6.0 cert. Fiat bodied altered blown alcohol Pontiac IAII-Sold |
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There's really no one size fits all with this stuff.
As I have always said NEVER SAY NEVER, This post as many others just show nothing was set in stone. So either is correct, for a "Judge" to argue this point is laughable.
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My Tyrol blue Baltimore 67 (12/66) has blue painted fillers. Interesting that Steve’s Baltimore 1/67 has black fillers. Maybe when my car was painted about 30 years ago they changed the color???
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After looking at a lot of pictures and seeing many survivor/restored cars that have the fillers body color I can see why the factory did it that way. My car was built in Pontiac. To my knowledge mine were always black. From this thread I am to assume that is more common (but as stated anything can happen)? We haven't painted my car yet I'm leaning towards painting the fillers body color.
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1967 GTO 416 5-spd streetcar 11's on HP low 10's 150 shot 1965 GTO 10-71 Littlefield high-helix retro/Bird (untuned) 8.44 @159 3500+lbs 10.5W's SOLD! 1964 421 GP-Sold 6.0 cert. Fiat bodied altered blown alcohol Pontiac IAII-Sold |
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