Curious about something...

[tronman]

As I posted before my poor little Porsche is down for the winter while I restore the floor pans and replace an ailing front suspension pan. I'm making progress(slowly due to no garage and being dependent on the fancies of the weather gods). I ran into something that at first I didn't think about but now I'm curious...I started out in the rear of the interior stripping the rear seat pans and along the sides working my way forward to the actual floor pan. I use the wonderful stuff "Aircraft Remover" (and believe me if you've got an unwanted aircraft in the yard that stuff will remove it...plus copiuos amounts of unprotected skin)...anyway I noticed that the paint and the tar and horsehair crud disolved easily but under the paint was a grey primer that was tough as nails...this stuff looked extremely familiar but I didn't place it until I hit it with the sanding disk...that familiar smell of hot plastic hit my nose and I knew immediately what it was...stinking Bondo...I've thought about this all weekend as I was stripping the stuff out...it's an even coat over the entire interior surface less than 1/16 of an inch thick...obviously placed there in production as it is under the original paint and tar mess...was this used as a sound deadening material? did they not realize in 1969 that Bondo is porous and absorbs water? Will I find more of this when I move underneath the car and start the stripping process there? The answers to these and other questions on the next installment of "How the Fuchs Wheels Turn"...