.....sounds reasonable Smitty. The Germans figured out that painting the engine compartment,trunk, and wheel wells took added time and labor. So they just said,"who cares", the public is buying our cars as fast as we can make them. I do believe that to "guise" this as some sort of "originality" addendum is absurd. If the car being restored is repainted and the car is purposely oversprayed in the same areas is technically flawed because..A) it's not original B)looks like Earl Shieb.