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Restoration / Re: Source of blue tinted paint on underside of '67 Los Camaro floor
« Last post by MO on April 06, 2024, 04:35:44 AM »No Camaro's built at Fremont.
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Originality / Re: Unicorn option help ? D88
« Last post by MO on April 06, 2024, 04:15:39 AM »I'd like to see that on black car.
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Originality / Re: Misc markings and labels
« Last post by vetteskip on April 06, 2024, 01:17:57 AM »6297602 - engine harness, with gauges
8721689 - rear body harness, dash to rear quarter, coupe
8721692 - rear light harness, standard
8721689 - rear body harness, dash to rear quarter, coupe
8721692 - rear light harness, standard
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Originality / Re: Misc markings and labels
« Last post by vetteskip on April 06, 2024, 01:14:25 AM »Next up - wiring harnesses. Some of you know that I was the shop forman at Factory-Fit/American Autowire for the first 15 years of the company (great products, great place to work). So I am a wiring nerd for sure! My 69Z has unusually nice original harnesses, and all of them still retain their factory tags. Here are some.
6297663 BC - under dash, manual trans, console, gauges
BC - This is the dash harness code on my Body Broadcast Sheet
6297542 VC - front light, with gauges
VC - This is the front light harness code on my Body Broadcast Sheet
6297663 BC - under dash, manual trans, console, gauges
BC - This is the dash harness code on my Body Broadcast Sheet
6297542 VC - front light, with gauges
VC - This is the front light harness code on my Body Broadcast Sheet
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Restoration / Re: Show chrome plating Legends Judging
« Last post by Stillwater Camaro on April 05, 2024, 10:47:00 PM »all of the original stainless was polished not chrome plated and the original bumpers and rear guards where done by aih chrome plating they only do the show chrome i thought the car needed the bright work to stand out.A Cortez Silver, '69 Z/28 hardly needs extra bright chrome to stand out LOL. I doubt many of the dozens of people flocking around it even noticed the bumpers as exceptional. I thought you were going to need to run people over to get it lined up with the lift for the underside inspection.
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Restoration / Re: Source of blue tinted paint on underside of '67 Los Camaro floor
« Last post by Stillwater Camaro on April 05, 2024, 10:32:41 PM »This car NEVER received a restoration of the level you suggest. It has had shoddy repair and paint work done to it in the past and I have documented every part of it through out my EXTENSIVE restoration. There is no way anyone took this down to a bare shell, sanded to bare metal and then painted the bottom blue. This isn't my first rodeo either, as they say. I've taken a number of cars down to shells and rebuilt them and have a very good idea of what I'm looking at. You haven't seen it in person nor have a good explanation of why it is blue, other than you don't want to believe it's original. I'm really tired of you being negative or any useful advice as to how this car got the bottom painted blue.
How do you explain the blue paint on the bottom of the Z28
How do you explain the blue paint on the bottom of the Z28
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Restoration / Re: Source of blue tinted paint on underside of '67 Los Camaro floor
« Last post by bcmiller on April 05, 2024, 09:02:52 PM »I don’t know for sure but I just bet it’s not original. It’s NOT uncommon to take a car down to bare metal when restoring. Did it a few times in the early 80s with Impalas.
* edited to add word NOT
* edited to add word NOT
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Restoration / Re: Source of blue tinted paint on underside of '67 Los Camaro floor
« Last post by GMAD_Van Nuys on April 05, 2024, 05:59:48 PM »JonZ's article on painting describes that primer was hand-sprayed on the entire body:
http://www.camaros.org/assemblyprocess.shtml#fisherpaint
I remember when the Camaros and Firebirds came out of the paint oven after being primed as they were located on the second floor of the Van Nuys Plant and during the summer, it was hot!
http://www.camaros.org/assemblyprocess.shtml#fisherpaint
I remember when the Camaros and Firebirds came out of the paint oven after being primed as they were located on the second floor of the Van Nuys Plant and during the summer, it was hot!
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Restoration / Re: Source of blue tinted paint on underside of '67 Los Camaro floor
« Last post by Stillwater Camaro on April 05, 2024, 04:54:07 PM »I had a feeling I had seen this before and went back thru my archives to a '67 GTO I restored many years ago and I believe that has something very similar on the floor, but it was so rusty, it's hard to say for certain. I replaced everything from the firewall to the rear bumper on that car, but some of the pics show a bluish hue thru the rust and dirt. One thing I am looking at is, the Fremont plant built A bodies for all the makes, Pontiac, Buick and Olds, besides the Chevrolet's Chevelle and Camaro. Was this something that would have been normally painted on the higher end cars ?? Was mine an employee ordered car that got a little something extra on the way down the line ?
When I started this thread, I thought this was a normative practice and was only looking for info to replicate it. Instead, it seems to have opened Pandora's box and could lead to new information, if someone with experience and sources, cared to go down that rabbit hole...
When I started this thread, I thought this was a normative practice and was only looking for info to replicate it. Instead, it seems to have opened Pandora's box and could lead to new information, if someone with experience and sources, cared to go down that rabbit hole...
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Restoration / Re: Source of blue tinted paint on underside of '67 Los Camaro floor
« Last post by bcmiller on April 05, 2024, 04:16:51 PM »I don't know what to tell you. Hopefully others see this and respond.