NorCam (Graeme Browne's) Lemans Blue 1969 Z/28

[Mr.Nickey Nova]

Your doing a nice job Graeme!! Did you ever get back with N.C. DMV about info on your Z??

[NorCam]

I tried getting through a couple of times with limited success. Not giving up on that I actually called again today and left another message for the gal in charge of this department to call me back. NC DMV has purged all info prior to 1990 with any older information now stored on microfilm. Apparently, this title department I was dealing with can request the microfilm department search for a given VIN, but I was told this would take some time to search. If a VIN has originally been titled in NC, they would have a record of it as well as a copy of its Certificate of Origin. Her department is the one that requests those film searches, but she was very clear this taking some time to produce. Once a VIN is found, they can then add it back into the database and produce copies of any original documents that are found.

I'm hoping that a couple of gentle reminders and follow up calls helps speed that process along, and hoping that the car was originally from North Carolina as was rumored. Shot in the dark and time will tell...

[Zedder]

Super nice car!

[NorCam]

I started working on all of the brake lines today and Pulled back the master cylinder and the steering to get everything on the left side of the engine bay accessible for cleaning and detailing. Hard lines are now soaking in evapo=rust to get them cleaned up. Also, here's the Gardner exhaust kit that will be installed once the engine goes back into the car.

[napa68]

Nice!

[x77-69z28]

Keep up the great work Graeme!
Buddy

[ban617]

Fantastic work to clean off all the extra paint underneath...

[Flying Undertaker]

Graeme: Have you thought about using some kind of protectant underneath after you had stripped everything to Original Paint? I used kerosene (process related to me by an old heavy equipment operator) on a rag and wiped down the whole underneath of my '71 Monte Carlo. It dries to same sheen as original and can be recoated as necessary to keep the look fresh. It works well on firewall, radiator support and inner wheelwells also!
Don.

[NorCam]

Great tip Don...

I was thinking of simply waxing the bottom end with some Meguiar's product and protecting what's there. Likely the same with the firewall. The car will never see water as long as I own it so not terribly concerned about any moisture. My shop is also a heated dry storage garage and our climate here is dry for the most part so it's in really good hands here as far as preservation goes.

[NorCam]

Didn't get too much done the past week, but back onto some cleaning and detailing today. I started cleaning up the original brake lines to get rid of all the black paint that was sprayed on them. Chemicals did a good job of softening it up and the wire wheel did the rest. Nothing too sparkling, just enough to eliminate the spray paint that covered them prior. These will be going back on as seen. I also painted the water pump which was the last of the engine parts being corrected. This one is dated J-10-9 More coming soon...