As an aside:

My Black 66 L-78 is 07B Atlanta and is coded 5Y deluxe too. But when I got it. One cover was missing. Series of friendly offered help landed me a mint set of Standard Belts which don’t have plastic covers.

Thanks Mike. That helps alot. Dads L78 is 04D, Maroon with Black Buckets.

3rd week July Atlanta 66 SS

If your Dad's car is Atlanta built too, it can't be too far ahead of my 05A, May 5th built SS.
As for the seat piping, I think people like the chrome and add it during resto. Most vendors advertise it as the correct piping too, so that doesn't help the knowledge base any either.

Nice find! I will be dragging my L78 66 home in May!
I will try to post pics!

Carpet, Console and Tach
 

Fought with the carpet on the weekend. I wish ACC would give more material on the front edge by the drivers toe board, and a little extra on the sides would be nice too. This particular one I bought took no trimming on the sides and had to be centered in order to not have any uncovered areas.

I reinstalled the original console. Top plates were sent off for rechrome. They look perfect with the fresh chrome. Re flocked the console compartment and have the original rubber surround for the shift hole for 66. Clock is a quartz conversion I did myself this time around. I also struggled with the poor engineering in 66 for the harness. Seems in 66 they expected the line worker to route the console harness up the carpet to the back of the heater box where a short harness resides from the back of the heater up and behind the firewall to the dash. I know from doing 67s they changed this and made the in between harness long enough to reach the console. Im always surprised to find the small changes year to year or even through the model year

Finally got the original tach put back in. I really didnt do much here. Cleaned the face and redid the needle, and painted the yellow and redline areas. Chrome was sent out and it looks very nice.

nice detail!!:headbang:

Looking good!! Now get those carpet slits made for the track claws while its naked in there:)

Grille Emblem OEM GM
 

As many of you can tell I do enjoy the smallest details.

Just a tip for those doing a 66. I can never fault things made by Trim Parts. There quality and originality are really top notch for most of the things I have purchased. In fact there Grille emblem is really really nice. Too nice in fact! lol. Pictured below in the last picture on the right is the aftermarket emblem. There actually chrome plated and honestly look beautiful. On the left is original off my car. I sanded the flat areas of the SS and 396 to take out most of the pitting. It was then sent off for re anodizing. Got it back today. The anodizing is much less flashy than chrome and I really like that original dulled down look.

Picture 1, as restored by the anodizing shop.

Picture 2, tedious taping for the white paint in the SS. I had already painted the black at this point, but the same process.

Picture 3 Left original restored, Right Aftermarket.

Mike I appreciate you looking out for me on the details but this is one area on my restorations I throw originality out the window. I have always placed the seat tracks on top the carpet. I know this car had the carpet replaced at one time so I really cant say for sure how it came. I did find carpet under the feet of the seat tracks but so many things can happen to a car in its lifetime.