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Hi Chuck
The underside of every rear window shelf I have ever seen has been in black, when held up to the light, it's obvious it wasn't sprayed to pass concourse inspection, as this was just the lid that closed the hole above the boot - the sides & floor of which was sprayed with a black rubberising textured stuff. The top of the tin shelves when I pulled the vinyl off, was also a black primer type paint under the vinyl - with the exception of one, which had a grey primer under the black paint, but that could have been restored by a PO who painted grey primer & then squirted black on top of that.
The top is covered with vinyl to match the interior and the underside is dark to match the inside of the boot - I'd suggest that Bertone probably used a generic "chassis black" type primer / paint on this part, most likely the same stuff that was used in the lower third of the engine bay & underneath the body. They would hardly have used an expensive top coat on a ribbed tin panel which was going to be covered with vinyl anyway. All that was needed was something to provide a 'key' for the adhesive & stop the panel rusting - generic murky 'chassis black' was fast easy & cheap.
All the ribbed panels on my 750 & 101 Sprints are like this, no distinction between Normale's and Veloce.
Ciao
Greig
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