Re: Paint spot on leaf leaf springs (yellow Yenko)
BKH, you are right, if the restoration is done properly it would done the way the car was found. There are a lot of cars that have been restored as "follow the leader" and they are wrong. Now as to pictures of COPOs or Yenkos with these spring markings, I do not have any. In your original post, which has been deleted, you stated "all Camaros" not the COPOs or Yenkos did not have them. However, I believe I have some of an SS396 that has them and those springs were no different than a COPO or Yenko: either BK or BM coded. Like I said earlier not all cars were marked this way and it depended upon which plant and what time of year the car was built. Research the car before restoration and document it.
To me the yellow car was done as "correct" as possible at the time of restoration. It is a nicely done over-restored car that most people like to see. Once the vinyl top is installed it should be correct. The paint daubs on the fronts of the springs can always be removed if the owner so decides. Not knocking the yellow car as to what was correct or not, I did notice that the spring tags were wrong and you did not mention that.
The tailpanels we have discussed before as to why there are varing shades of gloss but that is another day and time for discussion [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smirk.gif[/img] ..............RatPack..............
|