Just for the record, I took it down to the bare frame, including removing both the front and rear bumper brackets, as well as the trailer hitch that was installed when the truck was new. There was no paint on the frame. The truck was built in Baltimore, originally sold in North Carolina, and spend most of its early life on a farm in the Kannapolis area, then later, Atlanta, Georgia. They don't salt the roads down there.
Oh, and the inner fenders did have paint on them.
