1963 torque-trut finish

[Mr4Speed]

hi guys,

My 63 Savoy has greyish painted torquestruts; i have a spare set, that also has about 50% dark-greyish paint left on them...looks 100% factory original.
is this an original finish? I thought they were always bare. I have seen many guys that restored their cars make the struts black...
I am restoring my car so i would like to do them right.
Any help would be appreciated!!

thanks,
Best regards from Holland,
Marcel

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a pic from the struts; you can't see any of the paint i think.

 

[Mr4Speed]

no clues anyone?

 

[MoparMitch]

On my 68 Road runner I'm restoring , the strut rods looked like they were bare metal. So I powder coated them with a metal look grey.

 

[moparsteve636]

Every early b-body I ve had!and that's a lot! The struts were bare.Most guys paint them black because of rust (jmo)

 

[RustyRatRod]

Never heard of a torque trut before.

 

[Meep-Meep]

On my 68 Road runner I'm restoring , the strut rods looked like they were bare metal. So I powder coated them with a metal look grey.

I came to the exact same conclusion. I took note of what components were rusted and figured they were never painted. Washers and hardware was usually zinc, cad or black oxide plated. I have seen steering boxes with a quick blast of black paint and some painted pretty well. No matter, they all had some amount of old rust on them so I figured they never got painted very well.

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Never heard of a torque trut before.

Torque thrust knock off. :tongueflap:

 

[Mr4Speed]

haha, and the stupidest thing is ....i am from Holland and a "trut" means "bitch"
Sorry for the spelling.

 

[moparsteve636]

They are a bitch when you have to change them! LOL

 

[1962savoy]

I'm not sure if mine have been relpaced but in my 62 there painted black with some sort of orange paint blob:blob1:
OOPS! Wrong Bitch!:tied up:LOL

 

[64 Post]

I've seen them in bare metal with a 3/4" paint stripe color coded to their thickness. I have also seen them in the same grey primer as the under carriage. IMO, black is not factory correct.