OneStopRestoration's Special Orange 69 Chevelle 300 Deluxe Coupe

[chevyman0429]

Originally Posted by OneStopRestoration

Dropped the body tonight. Its nice when all the holes line up perfectly. Center the body left to right and front to back. Really easy with this car. Xmas break I should start hanging sheetmetal to ready for car to paint in the early spring.

I’m salivating! You Sir knock it out of the park every time! Thanks for sharing with us.

[dykstra]

Hot damn! Looks killer!

[SMS]

Fantastic and congrats on the milestone!

[napa68]

That is just AWESOME!

[olredalert]

----All of the above, and more !!!!!....Bill S

[OneStopRestoration]

Hey thanks guys for the kind words. Like many with the car disease i stand back and sometimes wonder if my stuff is good enough.

This type of work shown here doesnt get shown often. This is teidious detail work no one sees. All the windows were stripped of there small trinket hardware. 69s have alot of pieces to them. Most of the pieces were phospated, but that just isnt very corrosion resistant. I plated everything and for the phosphate parts apply black chromate which gives a black rainbow effect. I go really dark almost wiping out the rainbow effect.

I also had to fix one of the tall stand rollers for the front window. IN the mill i drilled and taped the tapperd shaft and jb welded in a grade 8 threaded rod. Cant even tell after its plated.(last 2 pictures)

[OneStopRestoration]

The smaller pieces are mini restorations. Just an example of pulling apart, cleaning and replating pieces of the light switch. I need to get a new repro knob as the original cannot be saved.

If Dave and Dan Schutzbank ever come past this post, the last few pictures are for them. Ive been selling dated voltage regulators for a long time and always told them i could not do do factory plating. I finally have the means to do it and the results are pretty solid. I run the regulator on a old school regulator testor. Always good to readjust once its in the car. Even the horn relay cover is near chrome finish quality with zinc plating.

[RPO LS7]

Awesome attention to detail. If you don't mind me asking, what type of spanner tool are you using to remove side glass hardware?

[OneStopRestoration]

Originally Posted by RPO LS7

Awesome attention to detail. If you don't mind me asking, what type of spanner tool are you using to remove side glass hardware?

Hi John, I made mine. 1/4" thick piece of bar stock and then two threaded holes for screws that are adjustable. Drilled a center hold for some stud based nuts. My dad has his own tool which is a piece of round stock with two dowel pins pressed in and a 3/8 socket welded to round stock and dowel assembly.

I think my setup can be pretty easy to make.

[OneStopRestoration]

Reproductions arent all bad, and I think there getting better. To help others im gonna share my experiences. Shown here are some window rollers for this car. The pieces from resto parts are pretty good but i did have to open up the slot because these were made too narrow. The black roller that comes with this piece is just garbage. Best advice i have is order the rollers from Ames Performance. The quality of there parts is usually exceptional. White roller is From Ames and fits tight without falling off.