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Messages - 396 SS/RS

#1
General Discussion / Re: Front seat latch
January 03, 2026, 09:20:37 AM
I found this... It appears some manufacturers started incorporating them prior to the mandate.

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 207, which took effect for passenger cars on January 1, 1968, is one of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's initial vehicle regulations. It specifies strength requirements for automotive seats and their attachment assemblies, so as to "minimize the possibility of their failure by forces acting on them as a result of vehicle impact." Many of the specific requirements of Standard 207 are based on the Society of Automotive Engineers' Recommended Practice 0879, which had already been in place since November 1963. The one significant difference between Standard 207 and Recommended Practice J879 - the one tangible modification of vehicle seating systems in model years 1967-68 - was the introduction of seat-back locks in the folding front  seatbacks of passenger cars with two doors.
#2
Restoration / Re: 8 track in 1967 camaro with console
December 27, 2025, 09:24:08 PM
#3
Originality / Re: 69 BB Tonawanda valve cover location
December 14, 2025, 11:55:16 AM
My originals are now wall art but is just slightly below center.
#4
Originality / Re: 69 BB Tonawanda valve cover location
December 14, 2025, 11:27:25 AM
Mine is just barely below off center.
#5
Maintenance / Re: Clock on Tic-Tok-Tach working again
November 27, 2025, 11:43:50 PM
I don't see where I can edit my original post. It was Aero-Kroil.
FWIW, I have a 60's vintage rotating lighted Budweiser pocket watch hanging clock that I got working again several years back using the same process (other than the gears required disassembly which was tedious).
#6
Maintenance / Clock on Tic-Tok-Tach working again
November 27, 2025, 10:02:20 AM
I thought that I would share this in the event someone wants to try to revive there dead clock in their Camaro.

My clock hasn't worked since I don't know when. The second hand had also worked its way off the stem and has been laying in the bottom of the housing for years. I had considered doing a quartz conversion so decided to open it up and inspect it. I removed the clock from the tach housing and decided to try to get the original one working before doing the conversion. After some cleaning the contacts with a contact file and the gears with an electronic contact cleaner, I followed up with some Pene-Lube and put 12 v to it. Fifty-eight years later it's running like a clock again. I also cleaned the contacts that winds it every couple of minutes.
#7
General Discussion / Re: Glad to be back!
November 05, 2025, 10:18:35 PM
 :) Glad to see you back! Thak you for the hard work and wishing the best of health. It has been missed by many...
#8
Sorry, I thought it was understood that it is a 2-speed rear window defroster.
#9
My '68 SS/RS came with one as an option. I think they were more common in full size GM cars. I've never seen many of them, especially in Camaro's.
#10
I'd heard that applying Easy Off Oven cleaner on it and let it soak/set for a bit to loosen it up and then get you several of the plastic sheetrock scrapers.
#11
Decoding/Numbers / Re: 1969 Black\White Z28
December 30, 2024, 10:29:08 PM
I'm assuming that you have also offered to buy it?
#12
Decoding/Numbers / Re: '69 Trim Tag
December 30, 2024, 10:20:38 PM
When taking a screenshot and blowing it up it looks like a 6 to me.



#13
General Discussion / Re: 1969 ZL1 - # 55
November 30, 2024, 09:40:28 AM
#25 belonged to a friend of the family that was a orange automatic. It was in many of the shows at Charlotte Motor Speedway Auto Fair and was at Floyd Garrett's Muscle Car Museum at one time. It was sold after the owner passed several years back so I don't know where it is now.
#15
General Discussion / Re: DEALER CODE AND ZONE NUMBERS
November 23, 2024, 09:52:54 AM
I was born and raised in Charlotte. In that era it would have likely been LaPointe Chevrolet (uptown) or City Chevrolet (North Charlotte) and years later there Larry Jay Chevrolet (South Charlotte).

You may find something here... https://www.ncrs.org/services/dealer-code-data.php