Hq firewall

**Alien DNA** · 18-02-2014, 11:55 PM

**Innuendo** · 19-02-2014, 12:13 AM

GMH engine bays were painted with black slops/slush it wasn't gloss or satin although it can come across being either.
The paint is basically GMH chassis black and any slops that were returned to the pot (all colours) so the colour can vary from black to grey, shiny to dull.

Cars yards would clear coat to tart things up for sale (even new cars). Typically this clear coat was straight over the top of everything (hoses and all).

**Absinth** · 19-02-2014, 01:02 AM

Originally Posted by Innuendo

Cars yards would clear coat to tart things up for sale (even new cars). Typically this clear coat was straight over the top of everything (hoses and all).

A bit like this new HJ......

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**Innuendo** · 19-02-2014, 01:58 AM

Yeah that's it. You can see why some think it's satin and others gloss.

**Vombil** · 19-02-2014, 02:11 AM

hey Abs did you notice the bonnet springs are black?! never seen that before

**HK1837** · 19-02-2014, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by mauser

Byron,

I thought the firewall was body colour in Brisbane builds.. Did other plants do that as well?

The firewall is the same black as the inner guards I thought.

Didn't Statesmans/Broughams and higher end GTS cars sometimes get a gloss black, on the inner guards at least, to jazz them up a bit. I seem to remember that HK/T/G Monaro GTS cars had that done to some of them.

Mauser

HK-HG Brougham and GTS were meant to have gloss underbonnet.

It is a bit of a mixed bag with HQ. At some stage Pagewood was gloss and then went back to black, and I think it was the same at Acacia Ridge.

**HK1837** · 19-02-2014, 07:38 AM

Originally Posted by Absinth

A bit like this new HJ......

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GMH sprayed gloss clear over the whole engine bay starting in late HQ (once HJ volume production started). I've seen 9/74 HQ's with the HJ onwards gloss clear. It was over everything as Inny states. It was done in the finishing area of the assembly plants as far as I know.

**Dr Terry** · 19-02-2014, 11:52 AM

AFAIK most 73/74 Pagewood HQs had a body-coloured firewalls. The inner guards & radiator support were still black.

They then went back to black firewalls for HJ/X/Z.

I've got 2 original HQ sedans in my shed, a Glacier White 72 Premier which has an all black underbonnet & a Saffron (Orange) late 73 Kingswood with a body-coloured firewall.

Dr Terry