Black paint behind grill

[fritz02]

I found an area behind one of the front side grills on my ‘73 tii where the paint had chipped away and the metal had rusted. I cleaned it up and primed it and was about to order a rattle can of Chamonix paint and clearcoat when a knowledgeable friend told me that BMW brush painted the radiator bulkhead, hood hinge supports and the panels behind the headlight buckets black. Does anyone know for sure if this is true before I slap on a bunch of POR15 or undercoat on it?

Any guidance or reference would be greatly appreciated. 
Paul

['76mintgrün'02]

6 minutes ago, pgommel said:

Does anyone know for sure if this is true before I slap on a bunch of POR15 or undercoat on it?

 

 

[Son of Marty]

The black paint was brushed onto the hood supports and on a bit of the radiator support on lighter colors not so much behind the head lights, the idea was looking straight on the front the grill cavity would be black. The brushing was pretty crudely done.

Edited July 17, 2022 by Son of Marty

[visionaut]

Wonder if they did it on originally Schwarz cars too?? And if it was extra matte black engine bay paint?

 

My own Cosmosschwarz is a repaint, and fully matte black behind the black grilles…

[Son of Marty]

Yup, even the Schwarz cars got the hood support done, I guess they wanted to kill the shine.

[adawil2002]

Yes it's true.

[visionaut]

5 minutes ago, Son of Marty said:

Yup, even the Schwarz cars got the hood support done, I guess they wanted to kill the shine.

My own rationale..

[visionaut]

2 minutes ago, adawil2002 said:

Yes it's true.

Looks like not on the front of the rad support Andrew?

[Steve Tochi]

This pic is from my 74tii.  "Crudely done" is an understatement.   Color is rare factory "belated primer" (060)

I may actually keep this original scheme once my own big repaint happens. 

[02Les]

Like Steve T's, pretty much everything behind the grills & part headlight support.

My old '76 Sahara

[d.hitchcock]

 

 

[Steve Tochi]

Even the inside edges of my kidney opening are black. 

Edited July 18, 2022 by Steve Tochi
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[Son of Marty]

It seems to me that the lighter the color the more area was painted.

[Mike Self]

Interesting pictures posted thus far...on my Nevada '69 (bought new, Feb 69 production) the only parts painted black (with a brush) were the two hood hinge supports and the four little tabs into which the side grilles' screws are placed.  Nothing else.  

 

Same with my Sahara '73 (Dec 72 production).  And in both cases it's obvious that Hans or Fritz eyeballed the part lines; no evidence of masking tape or a template where the black paint (semi gloss/semi flat) meets the body color.  I faithfully reproduced those lines...with a brush.  

 

And for you minutia folks, the paint on the grille screw tabs was applied before the plastic (or metal, depending on year) screw inserts were installed. 

 

mike

[AceAndrew]

I believe that later cars got more of the black treatment.

 

My roundie also had just the uprights painted.