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General Discussion / Re: How many CRG team members have a 68 Z/28?

« on: July 11, 2010, 11:02:18 PM »

68 Z28 05D.  I've got the original owners manual with a POP, but the dealers info and owners info were cut off of it.  Mine was about as plain as they come.  Had a heater and an AM radio.  Other than the stripes and wheels, you wouldn't know it from a  6 cyl. plain Jane.

Nothing wrong with that but many of us are very glad they had stripes.........  If anyone is interested this is what we have in 68 Z's over there. And yes, a few are the same as listed here.
http://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?p=1451262&posted=1#post1451262

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General Discussion / Re: How many CRG team members have a 68 Z/28?

« on: July 11, 2010, 01:48:44 AM »

Got it! 04A Lemans Blue w/Blue std. interior

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General Discussion / How many CRG team members have a 68 Z/28?

« on: July 10, 2010, 10:19:47 AM »

I found out rather quickly that several members have 68 Z/28's with the question I had concerning date code on our distributor. But how many more are out there? I thought it might be both cool and possibly beneficial to know how many CRG team members here have a 68 Z/28 and when was it built. And any neat characteristics your Z/28 might have.
Our 68 is a 01B built Butternut Yellow/Blk std interior Z/28 with born with engine, trans, and rear.  Interesting note: Found the original owner through a 1972 charge slip that was under the carpet where the carpet folds over under the seat. Car was purchased at Roger Dean Chevrolet in Charleston, WV in late March/early April, 68. Shows you people were not standing in lines to buy these at the time either 
 

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General Discussion / Re: 68 Z/28 01B with Dist. 1111266 7A25

« on: July 09, 2010, 10:10:18 AM »

Thanks for the info Randy and Paul! And neat to learn quickly of two other early built 68 Z/28's.  Might be asking my fellow z/28 brothers you something when a question comes up.......

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General Discussion / 68 Z/28 01B with Dist. 1111266 7A25

« on: July 09, 2010, 01:27:54 AM »

We just started to restore our 68 Z28 built 01B. We have owned this car for almost 30 years and knew way back when that it had it's born with engine, trans. and rear. Had even checked out other items like the dist., alternator, etc.... The only thing changed was the water pump and the ex. manifolds had been removed as the first owner told me he purchased headers. Didn't a lot of us put them on way back when!
Now where it seems strange is the time lapse between a few parts like the distributor and alternator. By the way, everything else seems logical and within the normal time frames for parts except the aforementioned two. The distributor is a 1111266 which I always felt was correct since our 68Z is a early build. Not sure how many 68's were built before ours but Jerry M and others have stated they are somewhat rare. Anyway, the dist. has a 7A25 date code (Jan. 25, 1967). I know they were not utilizing FIFO (first in, first out) but wow. Then the alternator is a 1100814 with of course the correct pulley but with a date of 7H10 (Aug. 10, 1967). These parts were part of the car again 30 years ago so I believe them to be original. We are doing the restoration for a trailer queen ride and some showing so my concern is a judge is going to say "no way" those date coded parts are too old to be on there.   Just looking for some information to support that this was possible or vice versa (no way)!
Anyone else have/seen this much difference?

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General Discussion / Re: Cowl plenum

« on: July 05, 2010, 11:25:49 PM »

Here is a pic of an orig lid on our air cowl plenum.

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General Discussion / Re: '68 Z Pitman Arms...

« on: July 05, 2010, 04:52:09 PM »

The manual pitman arm on our 68 Z/28 has an embossed cast part # of "3935075 A" with a "GMT 10" below the part #. How many different manual pitman arms were utilized?

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Restoration / Re: The story of my 67 Z/28 now undergoing restoration

« on: July 02, 2010, 10:54:13 AM »

Looking good!  Congratulations Paul!  Nice job Ken!   

Paul

I agree and saw the car first hand at Carlisle last week. Incredible car you have Paul and Ken's Lucas Team did just great. The color just jumps out at you with what is that while the paint, fit, and alignment of the car are incredible so hats off to Lonny Gordon and his East Coast Musclecar team also. What a story and great ending. 

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General Discussion / Re: Cowl plenum

« on: July 02, 2010, 02:47:00 AM »

Nobody makes a correct steel lid. You can spot the fake ones a mile away if you know what a correct looks like. I have a mint 68 cowl plenum with a nos impossible to find duct. I am thinking about selling it. email or call if interested in it. thanks John

Sent you a email also John.
fireZ, not impossible to find a lid but most want to sell the unit and not part the air cowl plenum out. Do you have the cowl plenum base etc. and only require the lid?

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Originality / Re: DF WHEELS

« on: June 30, 2010, 02:09:24 AM »

In my hunt for much earlier DF wheels (car built 01C) I found many March dated wheels around the valve stem. Your hunt will be much easier due to having a spring buiilt car! In reference to your question concerning the have or have not date code, it depends on when the car was built as the early part of the 68 production run were using large font DF wheels un-dated around the valve stem. The earliest dated valve stem DF wheel I have seen was a Dec., 67 wheel, yet I have center sections dated 12/67 with  the large DF font and no date code around valve stem.