Painting engine and front compartments

[rabrsr]

I am in the process of repainting my recently acquired 1970 911S. The car is balck but was originally Light Ivory, which is what I will paint the car. What about the engine and front compartments? Did the factory use body color or black or...?

[Chuck Miller]

rabrsr,

Generally, the early cars were sprayed the body color in trunk, wheel well, and engine compartment... Then brush painted over with a satin black in those areas. From '73 on the brushed on black was left off...

A simple search would get you there...
http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...partment+color

Hope this helps,

[Zithlord]

Early cars had black/black, not sure when they started leaving the trunk in body colour. But for sure from 71 they had:

71/72 had black engine compartment, body colour trunk
73 had body colour in both engine compartment and trunk

John

[70SATMan]

Body color in the trunk. Chuck is correct on the engine compartment.

[edmayo]

I have seen several Karmann bodied cars of 70-71 vintage that were black rather than body color in the trunk. It seems they did some details a little differently.

[70SATMan]

Yep, they did. Although I've read that Karmann did not build S bodies. Reutter did not use black in the trunk for 70 that I'm aware of.