Were Challengers painted in batches ?
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A friend and I are debating on whether or not Mopars (Challengers/Cudas) were painted certain colors in batches. My position is that 20-50 cars would be painted Black, then they would change out the 50-gal drum of paint to White or Red and they would paint until the ran out of paint, etc... otherwise it would be very wasteful to paint by special order. Anyone know ? Thank You
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Re: Were Challengers painted in batches ?
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OK OK OK I was wrong. I can accept that Now I'm curious; How would a factory that built (just a guess) 1000 cars a day, paint them all different colors ? Wouldn't that create havoc and delays from changing out the paint guns and hoses, etc... ? I would have thought they painted blue until they ran out of blue paint, then green, etc.. I believe it, just curious what the process was.
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Re: Were Challengers painted in batches ?
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OK OK OK I was wrong. I can accept that
Now I'm curious; How would a factory that built (just a guess) 1000 cars a day, paint them all different colors ? Wouldn't that create havoc and delays from changing out the paint guns and hoses, etc... ? I would have thought they painted blue until they ran out of blue paint, then green, etc..
I believe it, just curious what the process was.
I imagine they had different guns for different colors, and just picked up the particular gun depending on the order?
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Re: Were Challengers painted in batches ?
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There is an article somewhere that describes the process, but I read it long ago.
In a nutshell & from my hazy memory.......
The paint was in huge vats. The same guns & hoses were used but there was a manifold system that allowed the paint color to be changed.
Paint a car, switch colors, clear the gun until the new color starts to flow, & paint the next car.
This is one reason some cars have been found with another color under the actual color the whole car was painted. Some guns were cleared by spraying the trunk or engine bay.
Almost explains my buddies Challenger coded for EB7 but was FC7 in the trunk, engine compartment & full interior....
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