Question about inside trunk paint color

[Plymouthy Adams]

My 52 club Coupe is a Detroit car..it has the green/gray paint on the inside of the trunk, underside the decklid and hinges. It also has not been repainted (yet)

[Normspeed]

In my manual it says the 18,xxx,xxx series was a Detroit car. There were also Plymouth plants in Los Angeles, San Leandro and Evansville.

[Plymouthy Adams]

the Detroit car did not have a letter after the body code..the Evansville car had a model number followed by the letter E..the Los Angeles pant had the letter had an LA I think and I forget the San Leandro

[JerseyHarold]

I called my friend and he said his San Leandro-built Cranbrook has the dark-color trunk (the exterior body color is light gray). He doesn't think his car has the red oval firewall plate and believes it never had one because there aren't any extra holes in the firewall for fasteners. This would make sense because I think the red plates had 'Detroit, USA' on them and that wouldn't apply to cars built in other plants.

I'm wondering whether the bodies were imported from another Briggs plant for assembly in San Leandro. The Cranbrook is in winter storage but he said he'd take a closer look at the body serial plate next time he visits the car.

[randroid]

Gents,

I'm surprised that this thread has not evoked the demons of the "restoration vs. putting it on the road", and equally surprising is that I'm not going to rattle that chain either.

Since I'm going to paint my P-15 two-tone (Seafoam green on top and Forest green below, separated by the stainless strip) any thoughts on my part of going to the original have long since slid into the toilet. This discussion has, however, got me to thinking about something related that was mentioned here some months ago.

One of our members painted the under-side of his dash bright yellow (?) to make it easier to see the wiring, and I thought that was such a simplistically brilliant idea that I plan to do something quite similar, except I'll use the Seafoam. For the same reason I'm going to use Seafoam inside the trunk just so I can find my stuff more easily when the sun's down. I also plan on installing a light, but that will be a different thread.

To me, painting the inside of any confined area a dark color is counter-productive to ease of use.

Just my two cents.

-Randy

[Johnny S]

Hey Randroid....long time no see. We need to work up a time with Captain Neon to have a cup one of these days......!

As to the "I'm not getting into the original vs. not-original" discussion. Thank you....'cause you can see that the thread has produced some useful info ..... all because one of our own wanted to know how everyone elses trunk was painted.

[Joe Flanagan]

My car was built at the San Leandro plant. On closer inspection the trunk interior looks like a dark gray rather than green. I'm going to try to match it.

I spent most of today welding in the refabricated wheel well in the trunk. What a job THAT was. Even the original metal that I left in place wasn't so hot, at least in terms of being able to take the heat of a MIG welder. Much of it just melted away as soon as I hit the trigger. But I still managed to close everything up and it looks good. It took a lot of time, though.

[Brendan D25]

I have been following this thread and it is interesting for anyone who would like to stick with originality. A friend of mine has a P15 and had it painted and the bodyshop matched the colour to the inside of the trunk cover.

[eric wissing]

That was a cool idea. Eric

[BobT-47P15]

On my '54 Plymouth, the inside of the trunk lid and inner fenders are a

bluish-grey.

[central52]

My 47 Plymouth coupe was repainted by previous owner in the original Balfour Green color. The inside of trunk was dark green. I like to call it dark emerald green. Ed P.