My new 1968 Nova L79 project.

[jasonL78]

Dave I"ve been really busy at work. 10 hour days 6-7 days a week. So my time has been limited. I have the inside of the car ready for paint. I am going to epoxy prime the floors black then duplicate the factory fathum blue over spray. Hopefully this will happen this weekend. The underside of the roof is all finished with new sound deadner. Once I get the floors painted I will bolt the sheetmetal on the car and start blocking the car out. No rush on my end but I am shooting to paint it sometime in April. But it all depends on work my schedule.

[jasonL78]

Well I was thinking about making another topic on this but just figured I would do it here. Has anyone ever noticed the build week stamping through out the body of your car. I heard about this just before my restoration started. I was amazed how many spots on the car I found these stamps. I think they are build week stamps. Some people say no. This is what I have found so far. This car is an 06B car so the 20, 21 ,22,23 week stampings all line up with the build date of the body. I also found X22 on each inner door frame and H23 stamped in the rear floor pan under the rear seat but I don't have any pictures yet of these two spots.
Most of these stampings you really can't see until the paint is removed but some are stamped deeper than others and just stand out. I just thought I would share what I have found with others. I think it is very interesting.











I also found X22 stamped on all four floor drain plugs. I went to my stash and found some drain plugs removed from an 02B car They had X4 stamped on them. Very interesting.

[Xplantdad]

Neat stuff Jason...thanks for sharing!

[BJCHEV396]

Great work!!

[68COPO]

REAL NICE Jason!!
Rick

[kwhizz]

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[Nova Jed]

Looking awsome Jason! I can't wait until it's all painted.

[bergy]

nice work Jason - solid resto!

[jasonL78]

I have been working on the car but things are just going slow, which is fine I don’t want to rush the project. I took today off from work to enjoy the nice spring weather. It was 80 today here in upstate NY. I spent the day blocking the car out for the first time. I was very happy with my results. I had enough time to apply 2 more coats of primer for the second round of blocking. Now it’s time to get my doors and fenders back onto the car for initial panel alignment. I am still shooting for April to have color.

Jason

[Xplantdad]

Wow! Looks great Jason! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]