Is the firewall on a 67 chevelle conv. the same color as the body color or black. It looks like the firewall on the chevelle I am restoring had a red firewall at one time.


http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d189/jasonchale/0013.jpg

Black.... and you need these :yes: http://hometown.aol.com/mysterychevele/page1.html :thumbsup:
http://www.chevellecd.com/ :thumbsup:

Mikes, (the first one) has exactly what your talking about in his detailing section.
Dales, I've never seen his 67 one...but his new 66 has loads of info as well.:yes:

I believe the Canadian built cars had a body color firewall.

I believe the Canadian built cars had a body color firewall.
Didn't know that... if that's the case sounds like they just didn't
paint over the body color. If I remember correctly, in Mikes CD he has a pic of an unrestored car with the body color beginning to show through the black. I'm already telling to much:yes: again.... buy the CD:thumbsup:

Seb

BillsCamino is correct.

That pictures is about what I would expect to see.. firewall painted body color then sprayed blackout.. and that is why you often see bleed through after year and years on a survivor car... Not saying this one might not have been painted red some years ago after the factory original paint.. but either way, the answer to your question is BLACK...

Mike Crown

I agree with Bill and Mike. Canadian Chevelles didn't blackout the firewall, U.S. Chevelles did.

http://photos.chevellestuff.com/albums/userpics/10001/normal_car1.jpg

My car is a baltimor built car. If you look in the first picture it looks like the red was under the black. Wasn't sure that is why I asked. I wonder if that is over spray I see. But it just seems to low!

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d189/jasonchale/0015.jpg

NOT OVERSPRAY... Full paint, then painted BLACK... so too low would not apply ;)

Mike .were the non SS US cars painted black on firewall and underhood too ?

Mike may be busy - every U.S. built 64-72 Chevelle I've seen are black. The few unmolested Canada built 66/67 Malibu and SS firewalls I have photos of have been body color. Can you confirm this to be true across the board for Canada Chevelles?

Mike may be busy - every U.S. built 64-72 Chevelle I've seen are black. The few unmolested Canada built 66/67 Malibu and SS firewalls I have photos of have been body color. Can you confirm this to be true across the board for Canada Chevelles?


Thanks Dale for some reason I thought the black thing just for SS cars did not realize all ...... yes all CDN built Chevelles were body color firewall , underhood and underbody, trunks could be either body color or spatter more seem to be body color ?? Paint most were Acrylic Enamel as oposed to Acrylic Lacquer like US cars .....usually the paint code single letter for enamel ..... my Aztec Bronze code M not MM like US lacquer denotes enamel FWIW

Like Dale said ... :)