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Originality / Re: Under carpet

« on: July 05, 2012, 02:30:31 AM »

If you have deluxe interior you should have the fiberboards with the fiberglass type of insulation. I may have some pictures of mine before restoration. Give me a few days as those will be normal printed photos and not digital..................RatPack...............

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Originality / Re: Red Oxide primer on interior or 68 Camaros- Jonn Z and Ed Please respond.

« on: July 05, 2012, 02:28:13 AM »

rat pack,
 Pictures were sent to your E-mail.
  VT

Victor...check to make sure those pictures went through as I don't have any....

Mine's LOS, but I don't think I have any pictures as all I did was change carpets out.  I'll look under the sills for anything.  Other than that it might be a while.

Probably won't find it under the sills, but pulling the rear seat bottom out would probably work...........also look up under the dash over behind the kick panel area........ Have yet to see a LOS car with this color in 67 or 68................RatPack................

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Originality / Re: 67 mono springs use decals?

« on: July 05, 2012, 02:27:37 AM »

Ed, you are right!!! Just need to keep documenting original cars!!!     ....................RatPack.........

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Originality / Re: 67 mono springs use decals?

« on: July 05, 2012, 12:07:09 AM »

Jon thank you for posting the picture!

Ed, Mike's car is an 04B so that is after the chart revision. The AIM doesn't state what was revised so it could have been the addition/subraction of spring applications, the removal of the paint stripe colors, and/or the addition of the 2-letter codes..... Really no way of telling what it was......RatPack...............

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Originality / Re: 67 mono springs use decals?

« on: July 04, 2012, 07:39:47 PM »

 

My 07B Mountain Green '67 Z-28 built at the LOS plant had spring tags on it, not the paint stripe on the front of the spring. That was an untouched car I bought from the original owner.

Jon, now that you mention it, I think Mike had mentioned that he found some late build LOS cars that had spring tags, your Z may have been one of them. Do you have any pictures showing the tags? I have a set of original Z springs here and I cannot find traces of a paint stripe on them either....maybe had the tags too?............

  Or, there is a third possibility in that the spring chart revised date of 3-3-67 shows a change in usage but the assembly line didn't incorporate it just yet in their process?
Maybe a fourth....I am going to study the stripe closer and see if it is coral and just the yellow hue is caused by the rust. What usage is the coral for?

Thanks for the feedback.

Mike

Mike, I just dug out my 67 AIM where I had originally started the research on this back in 1995/6 when I worked for Year One. Here is what I have noted from back then. One note is that the spring chart is confusing in the 67 AIM as it has a typo for the BX code spring which should be 3925816 not 5925816, and that spring is the coral colored one: coupes w/L30 or L48. I also mistated that the two I didn't have stripe colors for were BA & BX, but it was BA & BB.

These are my notes from 1995 or so:

3925815 became 3912527 : first is white stripe and supersede had a yellow stripe, 1220 lb spring
3925816 became 3901395 : coral stripe,  1310 lb spring
3925817 became 3901397 : purple stripe, 1370 lb. spring
 
Now at one time all 6 springs were available at the same time, but they didn't always correlate to the 67 AIM when compared to the ones shown in the Feb 69 P&A 34 manual listed below:
 
3928515 - 67 Camaro coupe, 250 (ex spc rr spring) white stripe
3912527 - 67 Camaro 6cyl. yellow stripe
 
3925816 - ***No 67 applications shown
                   68 Camaro spt.cpe (327) exc. spec perf susp, 4spd)
                   69 Camaro
3901395 - 67 Camaro spt.cpe(230 & 327) (exc. spec perf susp) coral stripe
 
3925817 - *** No 67 applications shown
                   68 Camaro spt cpe w/spec perf suspension (exc. 350 & 396)
                   *** This spring was disco'd in 2/74 per my notes from Mike @ Eaton.
3901397 - 67 Camaro spt cpe w/spec perf. susp. (exc 350)
                   67 Camaro spt cpe (302, 350, 396) purple stripe

Confused? I am!!!...................RatPack.....................

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Originality / Re: 67 mono springs use decals?

« on: July 04, 2012, 03:49:43 AM »

About 10 years ago Mike Rossi and I were doing a lot of research on whether or not spring tags were ever used in 67 on the rear springs. We did find that the LOS plant did not use any tags on the springs in 67 and on some early 68's with mono-leaf rear springs except for two springs coded BA and BX. I do not remember if we ever found a 67 LOS car with tags for the other spring codes, and/or any 67 NOR car with the paint stripe on the springs. However, the color chart can be found in original P&A manuals for most of the springs. Per my information the paint stripe on your spring should be purple, not yellow. The yellow stripe was found on the 3909940 spring which was the standard rear spring for the L35 & L78 in 1967. I am not sure why you have F41 springs for the front, and non-F41 springs for the rear.....................RatPack....................

Here is a picture from an October 66 built LOS RS/SS 350 showing a coral paint stripe.......................

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Originality / Re: Red Oxide primer on interior or 68 Camaros- Jonn Z and Ed Please respond.

« on: July 02, 2012, 11:10:21 PM »

The pattern so far is this: 68 Norwood cars only, exterior/interior colors did not change this base brown primer color. I have yet to observe any LOS cars, or any 67 NOR cars with anything other than grey.  Would like to see if this shows up in 67 Norwood cars at any time frame. I have pictures of Norwood cars from Jan 67 thru the end of production in July and all have grey primer inside and out. So if you have a Norwood 67, or any LOS 67-68 with this brown primer I would like to hear from you along with pictures to verify it..............Thanks.......RatPack......................

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Originality / Re: Red Oxide primer on interior or 68 Camaros- Jonn Z and Ed Please respond.

« on: July 02, 2012, 02:41:39 AM »

I don't have pictures of Keith's car before restoration, but it was probably blrown just like the others including that red car we judged. I took lots of pictures of that one. So far there have not been any with the red oxide primer like what started showing up in 69 and all 2nd gen cars. So far the only cars that have this brown primer are Norwood cars. Attached is a picture of "scoop"s car before restoration.............

my 67 is red o xcide inside with yellow overspray.

Which plant? Please post pictures or email them to me as none of the 67's I have observed have anything other than two shades of grey...................RatPack.................

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Originality / Re: Red Oxide primer on interior or 68 Camaros- Jonn Z and Ed Please respond.

« on: June 29, 2012, 09:37:01 PM »

Guys if your car has anything other than light grey or dark grey primer on the interior areas only, please post pictures if you can. So far in the past couple of days I have looked at 7 68's and 3 67's, and none of them have true red oxide primer on the interior areas. However, some do have a brown primer, the same as Larry's (scoop) car did originally. I also looked at the low mile 68 SS350 at the show last weekend and it too has brown primer, not red oxide. Some may refer to this color as red oxide, but it is not the same. I have already seen a pattern forming, but I will not make any conclusions until more cars are looked at and verified. So far there have not been any 67-68 cars with this brown color in any area other than the interior surfaces of the body. Nothing showing on the underside, trunk (excluding the underside of the pkg tray), or exterior areas. Guys that have red cars really need to observe them closely as red body color overspray that is on top of the grey primers will make them look brown or even orange if they have light grey primer.

Any and all help is appreciated. I have researched this heavily for over 5 years, and until I started compiling my info this week because of Larry being persistant at the show I didn't see the pattern forming...................Thanks,..........RatPack.................

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Originality / Re: 1111480 Distributor Stamp Verification

« on: June 28, 2012, 02:41:04 AM »

Here is the picture from the auction enlarged showing what appears to be a "1" behind the edge of the "0"............RatPack............

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Originality / Re: 1111480 Distributor Stamp Verification

« on: June 28, 2012, 02:39:46 AM »

May be a restamp as there appears to be a "1" hiding under the left edge of the "0". I have a 481 distributor with a build date of 9 D 1 and other than the "0" it appears exactly the same.......RatPack...............

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Originality / Re: Red Oxide primer on interior or 68 Camaros- Jonn Z and Ed Please respond.

« on: June 28, 2012, 02:36:46 AM »

People who have this ruddy brown/red oxide color in their 67-68's please post the build date, original exterior color, and build plant as this may have not been done at both plants........Thanks,..............RatPack..............

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Restoration / Re: White vinyl top-source for correct?

« on: June 27, 2012, 12:29:28 AM »

Mac B, are you sure you got gigged for cloth backing? It is possible that you mean you have the current repro that has a felt backing which gives it a "padded" feel. The original are cloth backed, and there is a new one available, but I think only in black. It also has the correct sewn pleats below the rear window in the correct location too. Let me do a little research as to who is making the correct top. It may be Legendary since they have the correct ones for the GM A-body cars. Below is a picture showing the backing of the repro top like on your car, and one of the correct ones from the GM original suppliers.............RatPack..........

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General Discussion / Re: Fake 69 Olympic Gold Z is back on the market

« on: June 19, 2012, 07:05:59 PM »

I spoke to James Potter back before Christmas regarding this car and a couple others they had for sale. When we spoke I asked him what happened to Jerry's paperwork and he point blank stated "I don't know what you are talking about, and who is Jerry MacNeish?" I went to explain to him who Jerry is/was, and that the car they are selling is a known clone. He said that was news to him and that he would check into it. My gut feeling was that he knew of Jerry, and also that they possibly had Jerry's report. The car was removed from their site within a day or so after I mentioned that to him. When he called me back regarding a couple other cars, he said that the gold car was no longer for sale. Rick bought the car as a "real" Z at the 2010 Palm Beach B-J auction and gave close to $60k for it then. So it has been sold twice as a "real" Z since it was discovered it wasn't real by Jerry in 2009. So what transpired after the first guy "xramcamaro2" discovered it was a fake Z? Was he the one that consigned it to B-J to be sold? If so, then he would be the one liable when it is all said and done.............RatPack..............

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General Discussion / Re: Console Gauges

« on: May 26, 2012, 10:37:42 PM »

White would be 1971-76 Nova bezels.............RatPack...............