Too bad. It’s hard to learn much from a car that’s already stripped.
Chris Edelman that worked at A.O Smith told me at some point during the 68 G production they pulled the sun roof assembly equipment from A.O Smith and it went to ASC in Detroit. He said the move was to improve quality as the farm boys working at A.O Smith were struggling to install the sunroof.
The invoices that I have and mentioned in post #12 were from January 1970. So we need to see invoices from later to narrow down when the ship to was eliminated and sunroofs were installed on the line at Dearborn. Someone may want to start a new thread to determine when sunroofs were installed at AO Smith, American Sun Roof and Dearborn Assembly Plant based on the ship to information on the “Eminger” invoices. I realize 1968 model year invoices are not available.
Now back to the car that is the subject of the original post. Most special paint cars that I have seen were done on the assembly line.
I would agree that this one was done off the assembly line because of the line on the window sticker below the PTO 84 9056 where it states;
“PRIME NC” which would lead me to believe that the car left the plant in primer and that line is normally not on a special paint car invoice.
Again it would be interesting to see the “Eminger” invoices for this car as they might show other places that the car went for modifications prior to delivery to “H Ford”.
The person in the photo doesn’t look like Fran Hernandez to me. Fran was older and wearing glasses when he was running Kar kraft in 69. Fran is on the right by the Boss429. Painting cars I don’t think was one of Fran specialties as he had a machining back ground. I don’t think he would be painting a special one off Cougar. The front fender extensions are off and laying on top of the roof for paint.
Henry Ford II had at least one 1969 Cougar, formerly owned by Dick Hertzler. HFII had all his cars painted “Pomegranate Metallic” a sort of bright metallic red color. If this car was done for him it would have been that color.
Pomegrante Metallic the same color as the Thirst Eliminator?
That car popped in my head when I 1st started reading this thread. 
Looks similar. Compare to the XR7-S color of HFII’s personal car. Unfortunately photos often do not do justice.
Getting close to painting. Done a lot of research and going throw old photos of the car to what extend do we take this car to originality. Because the car was completely assemble when Kar Kraft received the car from Ford the job was pretty crude. I do know they painted over the door warranty plate, no paint on the hinge pillar and roof rails, no paint inside trunk area. Because the car at some point had the fenders and hood change so not sure how that was painted or if they even painted fender edge or bottom of hood and trunk. My question is how accurate do we make this car as crude as it might be. Henry Ford gave a 1970 Mustang to his son Edsel in the fall of 1969 that went threw Kar Kraft and was paint candy apple red. There are no records of where that car went. It has been suggested the Edsel still might have it. It would be nice to see that car because it would show how this car was painted. All paint work went threw the Kar Kraft Glenmore shop. The person who ran that shop is no longer alive. Maybe someone would know someone who actually worked there at that time.