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General Discussion / Every mans dream garage?!

« on: July 06, 2009, 07:22:01 PM »

I had a friend for a visit during last weekend and I just must let you se my home garage at this pont! I don´t think this is a common sight even in a garge in the US.
My friends car is a original 427 former race car and it´s not 100 % original right now but the goal is to restore it to it´s former looks! The original paint is light blue metallic but I just love the Hugger orange!

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Restoration / Re: New tall bumpers guards, they don´t fit!

« on: June 23, 2009, 10:47:46 AM »

Now the Hugger has bumper guards!!

The rear ones fitted lika a glove, talk about "bolt on" !


...but with the front ones I had to work hard with the grinder and finally I got them decent in place:


What do you think?

The reasons for me to put them there in the first place was that I allready had the holes for them in the front and I thought it would look nice on a 2" dropped 69 Camaro! 

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Restoration / Re: GM NOS Standard Grille (Silver) for 69 Camaro Z28

« on: June 16, 2009, 01:18:27 PM »

The only standard silver grille I see on the HeartbeatCity site is one that is used. There is an NOS Rally Sport Silver Grille. Did I miss it somehow?

RS grille is always black!

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Restoration / Re: New tall bumpers guards, they don´t fit!

« on: June 16, 2009, 01:16:45 PM »

Hugger69, I ran into this problem a few years ago and found it wasn't the guards instead it was the bumper. The guards were made to fit the original bumper, not the repro. I have a 69 here that the customer wants me to add the tall front guards to, but I know I am going to have a time fitting them to the bumper as his car has an older repro bumper on it now. I have heard that these guards do fit the top of the line bumper from Goodmark, but I have not confirmed this with a test fit of my own. They did some serious retooling about 5 years ago on all of their bumpers to be more exact on exterior shape as compared to originals, and of the ones for the 67-68 models they are pretty much dead-on. You are doing about the only thing feasible to make them fit, which stinks because now you have to either rechrome them or paint the edges that you grind............................RatPack........................

Thanx for an quick answer!
...I was told, by the former owner in US, that I have a rechromed original front bumper so my guess is that the bumper guard tool are wrong!? I´m going to use paint and rubber sealing when mounting the guards!

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Restoration / Re: New tall bumpers guards, they don´t fit!

« on: June 16, 2009, 06:47:29 AM »

...nobody has a any experince?? 

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Restoration / New tall bumpers guards, they don´t fit!

« on: June 15, 2009, 11:21:48 AM »

Hi!
Has anybody else had problems when mounting repro bumper guards, specially in the front on a 69 Camaro?? 
I have to use the grinder to take a lot of material, and crome, away so the guard at least fit the bumper shape...!

I bought the bumper guards from NPD cause i heard that they had rather good quality! 

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Originality / Re: front grill & bezels

« on: June 08, 2009, 10:35:38 AM »

there was a recent thread about this: http://www.camaros.org/forum/index.php?topic=4185.0
There are some photos there that may help.
Depending on where you are located, or if you are going to Carlisle, I might be interested in the used black grill.

I started that thread so I´m familiar with the quest! I´ve just painted the egg mesh Argent silver and I think it went ok!

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General Discussion / Re: A new Camaro we can all relate to

« on: June 03, 2009, 11:48:45 AM »

Has anyone noticed that the Camaro is not on the list of cars that GM is supposedly going to keep building in the next few years after restructuring?...................RatPack.................

didn't you guy's see that memo ? GM stopped making camaro's in mid 1970 with the end of the 1969 model production year !

Hi five!!

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Originality / Re: Grille color on a X44?

« on: April 20, 2009, 01:43:46 PM »

Thanx Kewin! 

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Originality / Re: Grille color on a X44?

« on: April 20, 2009, 09:08:29 AM »

After spending week after week in the paint shop I finally got the grille back to my garage so I could start remounting it!

First I had to add the center bowtie enblem and the polished moldings:


Here it´s a prefit of the grille:


Now was the right time to put som new fresch buchings and screws from NPD in place:


Here is the grille and front bvumper in place after hours od adjustments.
I also took the front spoiler of just for testing and I kind of like the new clean apparence!


I gotta take the HUgger for its first ride this year and this is the final result outside the garage:

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Originality / Re: Hub caps and steel wheels?

« on: February 14, 2009, 07:50:37 AM »

Hi and Hej

Yes this looks nice.
But as someone asked, is it same trimring as on RallyWheels / SS-Wheels?
And what kind of rims is it, 14 or 15"?

Håkan, var fick du tag på dina kapslar och fälgar?

GUS

Hi & hej!
Fälgarna är alltid 14" men däremot e mina 14x6" då jag har en basmodell, X44. På en SS tror jag det skall vara 14x7"....och det var jag som frågade om det var samma ringar Rally Wheels eller SS ?

Jag fick tag i fägarna via Camaroskroten och Björn. De korrekta GM från rätt fabrik men inte exakt match.number men gjorda för skivbroms som jag har. Kapslarna hade jag tur att hitta mycket fina beggade i E-tuna hos en Camarofantast. Dessa dog dish nytillverkas numera och kan köpas via bl.a. Classics Industries! ...dock inte samma känsla som fina beggade tycker jag!

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Originality / Re: Hub caps and steel wheels?

« on: February 10, 2009, 08:36:57 AM »

Those are trim rings with dogdish caps

Cause it is, that were what I meant or...? 

But Kurt, is this the same trim rings used with the Rally Wheels??

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Originality / Re: Hub caps and steel wheels?

« on: February 09, 2009, 02:05:57 PM »

Here are some more pics of what I meant:




The rims looks silver to me!?

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Originality / Re: Hub caps and steel wheels?

« on: February 09, 2009, 01:10:59 PM »

Yes, TT with redline is nice, but it's more common than my SS-wheels.
And TT, with or without redline, is 8 out of 10 cars.
No, I will not put that on the car.

I'm looking for original SteelWheels with a set of HubCaps.
My questions is, what or which is the right set of hubcaps for my car?

GUS

Tjen mannen!
Du skall väl ha samma som jag fast med en snobbring, om du skall vara korrekt! Tror dock fälgen skall vara silverlackad på SS men ej säker!

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Originality / Re: Grille color on a X44?

« on: February 02, 2009, 07:45:41 PM »

My original 02D Z/28 (X33 - with Z21) has the silver grille and bezels, and a narrow black ring painted between the bright ring on the bezel and the headlamp.

So it´s supposed to be black then!! Oops, I´ve just painted that part Argent as well!