Those clips were off the rear inside frame rail and doubt any lemans blue paint would have gotten up there above the diff on the inside of the rails? I thought the blue paint traces on the frame was simply the blue from the clips maybe having transferred surfaces from any moisture that the car might have seen from early road use. In any case...it's all good.
Also had the chance to soak the original front springs in evapo-rust for the past week and it cleaned them up rather nicely. Even the original paper tags came out clean after being in there for a week w/o eating the labels. I think these will be going back onto the car when I get to the front end. First I'll have to see if I can find a set of NOS lower ball joints to replace the service units that were installed when the springs were swapped out. That would at least have it back to stock.
