Factory undercoating?

[Mr Camouflage]

Actually, come to think of it there could have been a thin coating of yellow/beige primer under the tar undercoating, but definately not over the top color coat paint. Well at least not the floor pan. That my experiance with 3 240z's.

I still have the back half of the car still left to strip, i'll take some more notice when i get back to it.

To avoid confusion, how about we call the beige stuff primer or undercoat - as its known in Spray painting terms, and the Black tar stuff, we'll call that rust proofing, or underbody deadener, because thats basically what it was supposed to be.

[TomoHawk]

My car has what looks like a "rust-belt undercoating job." It's even got undercoating on the bottom side of the hood. Should I take it off (the hood?) I think if I scrape it with a stick, I can get most of it, then slick it down with some solvent or furniture polish..