69 Z/28 Day II Project (Air Force Brat)

[NorCam]

Lot's to do here still, but the door panels finally arrived from Al Knoch. Now I can finish installing the stainless trim and get these ready to mount up for a later date. Also cleaned and painted the lower kick panels and also repainted the original wiper transmission.

[whitetop]

I think your Lakewoods are Mopar A body applications.

I'm fairly certain they have the funky shock mount sticking up, unless you added that tab for some reason.
The Mopar A body looked similar to GM but had a narrower pad.

[NorCam]

Originally Posted by whitetop

I think your Lakewoods are Mopar A body applications.

I'm fairly certain they have the funky shock mount sticking up, unless you added that tab for some reason.
The Mopar A body looked similar to GM but had a narrower pad.

Nope...not Mopar. They are GM bars and pads with correct shock mount tabs for 69 Camaro. In fact, they were found on a Copo car where someone had added the extra tabs to reinforce the lower shock mounts. Those were cut off yesterday and today we're welding extension tabs onto the stock positions to raise the mount position on the lower shocks. Then I have to clean them up and repaint them before they go back on.

[GMC_Typhoon]

Originally Posted by NorCam

Nope...not Mopar. They are GM bars and pads with correct shock mount tabs for 69 Camaro. In fact, they were found on a Copo car where someone had added the extra tabs to reinforce the lower shock mounts. Those were cut off yesterday and today we're welding extension tabs onto the stock positions to raise the mount position on the lower shocks. Then I have to clean them up and repaint them before they go back on.

I love everything about this car. It is looking great.

[whitetop]

Originally Posted by NorCam

Nope...not Mopar.

They also could have been Lakewood 55-57 Chevy which used a narrower base and look near identical to the camaro. Just because they came off a Camaro does not mean they were the right application to begin with.
I have sold probably sold 50 sets of Lakewoods Camaro and the j bolts were never squeezed in at an angle. The j bolt hole being a 1/8 from the edge is also another quandry which makes me believe these were 55-57 Chevy. The Camaro/Nova spring pads were very wide on the Lakewood bars see attached pic.

They also could have been the Street bars that did not come with j bolts and someone weled on the little triangles underneath.

Bars look nice though.