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Yes vince the car has a spoiler, and thank you Sauron327!

I am doing the body on a 69 for a friend and when I got it it was completely taken apart, now I want to put the trunk springs in to hold the lid up and I have no idea how they go, can anyone help me with a picture maybe? Thanks in advance!

John , more specifically , were they put on in the 67 model year? Those 1/8 - 1/16 stripes were the ugliest thing a person could put on the side of a car , most body shops did them after paint jobs.

I was wondering if any first gen Camaro left the factory with pinstripes down the side of the car , or was it something the dealers added if called for . I've seen quite a few pictures of these cars with the little stripes and I am curious to know , thanks.

Was the top of the dash between the windsheild and the pad always painted interior color (on any Camaro) or was is low gloss black to eliminate glare ?

Ok now let me ask this , are there some welds on convertibles that are done after the fact with mig welders ? Like in the rear inner quarterpanel reinforcments , the rear seat support etc. ? The reason I ask this is because you can visibly tell that these parts look to have been welded after the fact , not spot welded from the factory , I can see that the front posts look original(with fenders on) but I can clearly see that at the bottom where they meet the rockers there is mig welds , so after I have the fenders off I'll be able to see if the cowl has indeed been tampered with . The vin tag is the same as the number stamped in the upper cowl section which tells me that the whole cowl is correct but is it from another car ? We will see when oit comes apart.

Im working on doing the body work on a 67 convertible for a friend that purchased the car a few months back and now that the car is alomost completely apart it shows some signs of something strange , it looks to me like the rear section of the body may have possibly been changed , the welds are not original and you can tell it has been worked on , it has new quarters but it just seems strange, the front section around the windshield pillar seems odd too but the fenders are still on so until they come off I wont be able to see whats been done around the cowl area . Is there anything that is obvious to only a convertible that would be next to impossible to swap out if this type of job was done ? Something I can look for that is distinct ?

I am curious about the color of the metal parts of the interior , ie: top/bottom of doors , dash ,etc , are these parts always painted body color or were they sometimes black? I did a couple searches and found nothing about this .

Thank you Sauron327 , thats what I assumed but was not completely sure.

I am doing the body and paint on a 67 convertible for a guy I know and I came across a spot that I am unfamilliar with. The panel that is between the trunk lid and the top , on a hard top it is left to look like a seperate piece, but on this car it had the lines like it was a seperate piece but when I stripped it down it was done with filler and what was under it was a lead joint, what I need to know is if this is a smoothed area on a convert. or if it should have the joint lines.

I am doing the body work on a 67 convertible for a friend and the car is completely stripped except for the top , it is a manual top and I just cant seem to figure out exactly how it would come of , will it come of as a unit or does it have to be dissasemled piece by piece , and help or pictures would be great,thanks.

I know this is the Camaro registry but does anyone know where I can find a website with similar info for Firebirds ? I am done the Camaro and now working on a Firebird but I cant find much info , any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Unfortunately I don't , I probably should have gotten one but by the time one comes now it will be too late , I need to sort this out in the next couple days . I talked to a guy here that deals in nothing but Camaro and Firebird parts but he wants more than double what you can get them for anywhere else online , thats just robbery in my opinion , and he said he's not sure if it even covers the RS headlamp system !

Does anyone know where I can find a break down or an exploded view of the hideaway headlamp assembly for a 68 ? I took the assemblies out of the car I am working on and the bushings are all broken or missing , I have a new bushing set but it comes with a whole crap load of stuff that is not even in these so a picture would be great for me to go by.

Would it be possible for someone to give me the exact measurements as to where the Camaro emblem is on the front valance ?  I am working on a 68 RS/SS that someone has put the wrong emblem on and I have to fill the holes and drill new ones for the proper emblem . As well I would just like to confirm that the one on the trunk is the same as the one on the front valance , is this true ? Thanks in advance for any help !