Can anyone tell me the correct color for upper and lower control arms on a 70 challenger. Thanks,
Jim

Lower is bare and dipped in cosmoline , upper I won't comment on because I'll probably be wrong

FWIW, if you want the cosmoline look, use Krylon battery protectant spray if you can't get cosmoline.

FB has seen some uppers with thin cosmo (and so have I....well, what appeared to be) but I think bare steel would be the "safest" bet for most.

i purchased some "quasimoline" from Resto Rick to do my lowers, haven't used it yet, but soon.

http://www.restorick.com/proddetail.asp?prod=PntQuasimoline

I would like to hear some debate about the uppers


jess in ky

Lowers were bare steel dipped (partially) in Cosmoline (you can still buy it, costs around $80.00 a gallon). You can treat the raw steel with ECS's RPM to prevent rust on bare areas. Most, but not all, uppers were raw steel (some were gloss black), same story, use RPM to keep them looking new.

Just don't do the whole control arm in RPM and then try to put the Krylon over it. DAMIK... Acetone will remove RPM so you can spray the Krylon on. My uppers were bare steel.

Here's my poor mans method ....I RPM'd my entire control arm and gave it 3 heavy coats of LPS 3 (about a cans worth)