all the originals I've seen were flat black [primer] underneath with body color overspray around the edges, same with the hood - it may have varied at different plants, but the fenders [primed] would have gone down a conveyer getting sprayed body color one side, waste of time and paint to turn them around and pretty up the side never seen

Bill

Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics