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Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« on: January 26, 2013, 02:10:02 AM »
Would like to see a comparison of body date (Fisher) vs. Cowl Hood date (Chevrolet).     My 69Z    06A  NOR.  / Hood date  week 23

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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2013, 06:04:11 AM »
Do a search.  Kurt has collected a fairly large data base with this information available to us in the email...   maybe search on hood date code?
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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2013, 06:57:01 PM »
My Van Nuys 04A car's ZL-2 hood is dated week 12
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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2013, 08:16:37 PM »
My late 09C Z28 ZL2 hood is dated '25'...
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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2013, 02:39:47 PM »
Where is this hood code located?
Does the CRG database have any production numbers of 69 Z's with factory ZL2 hoods?
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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2013, 03:38:05 PM »
Nope, only the 10,026 that the production records indicate was made over the entire run.  Take away 3675 for the Z11's, another 400 0r 500 for the Z10, and 1000 for the COPOs where the hoods were mandatory options and that leaves roughly 5000 for all of the remaining SS's and Z28's ordered after the beginning of December 1968 that could have ordered the hoods as an option.
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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2013, 03:38:41 PM »
TX-302,
from what has been reported previously, all 'factory original' ZL-2 hoods had a 'date code' stamped on the rear drivers corner of the hood, on the side at the back.  See attached photo of my original hood with '25' stamped.  Note that the stamp in my case is 'upside down'.  I'm totally unsure if they are all like that or not, since I only have the one.   The 25 represents the week of the year, so 25 would be sometime during July of 1969 (since '69 is the only year factory cowl hoods were used).  My car is an 09C production with a 27August engine and most parts being produced in August 1969.

Supposedly, repro hoods and even post-69 model year 'OTC' hoods were not so stamped?
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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2013, 03:41:36 PM »
Mark wrote - speaking of ZL2 factory hoods:   
"...were mandatory options and that leaves roughly 5000 for all of the remaining SS's and Z28's that could have ordered the hoods as an option."

Mark, since the SS Camaros had a special hood, Was the ZL-2 even an option for SS's??  I didnt' think it was... but I don't have an original option book...
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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2013, 04:43:54 PM »
Yes, it was available on SS's and Z28's as an option, had to be ordered though it never came as part of the ss or Z28 package.  The SS and the Z28 were the only cars it was available on, outside of the COPOs.
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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2013, 04:56:00 PM »
OK .. thanks Mark.   Of course I recall seeing them on Z11, but don't recall ever seeing a *regular SS* with a cowl hood..  but then there weren't a lot of Z28's with the cowl hoods either, back in the day.. :)
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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2013, 06:43:52 PM »
OK .. thanks Mark.   Of course I recall seeing them on Z11, but don't recall ever seeing a *regular SS* with a cowl hood..  but then there weren't a lot of Z28's with the cowl hoods either, back in the day.. :)

Here is my SS350 factory ZL-2. Probably very few made.

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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2013, 06:45:26 AM »
but I don't have an original option book...
http://www.camaros.org/options.shtml#RPOSpreadsheet

I don't think the COPO hoods would count in that RPO total, since it was part of the package.
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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2013, 10:04:34 AM »
Here is my SS350 factory ZL-2. Probably very few made.
Does your car have a '270' ignition coil? Beautiful car, BTW!
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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2013, 01:39:05 PM »
Yes, 270 coil, and "DE" coded air cleaner.
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Re: Zl-2 Cowl Hood Production
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2013, 01:43:37 PM »
Is there a 'code' stamped somewhere on the air cleaner?  First I've heard of that.. or are you referring to a 'paper sticker/label'??
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