Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>, you said... >You can see an example of the yellow stripe at >http://www.mattsoldcars.com/gallery/EdmundAnderson2004/low_mile_american/index. shtml. Now *this* is excellent. A four-year gap between what I drive and this very clean American, but much of this matches up with what I had already speculated on and heard (the stripe on the host, the particular clamps, etcetra). Excellent stuff. >Besides the engine assembled before painting, the transmissions were also >attached. When I rebuild the 232 in my American, the bellhousing had over >spray on it and it wasn't painted behind the flywheel. Tom Benvie and >Larry Daum supplied a lot of information on painting 199 and 232 inline >sixes a few years ago. I put a page together with that information at >http://www.mattsoldcars.com/RestoreAmerican/inline6painting.shtml. I'm not >sure how much of it applies directly to the 195.6's but if nothing else, >it may assist in forensic work if your engine hasn't been rebuilt before. It helps, for sure. I've actually been over your site a time or two, but not recently. Good stuff. :-) Cheers, Gwen Smith ______^_____^______ (O|O) =RAMBLER= (O|O) Gwen Smith * gwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------- www.gwensmith.com/interests/rambler \-<>---|770|---<>-/