Our 69 Yenko Chevelle restoration

[SS427]

Whoops, you are right! That was mine. Here is yours.

[SS427]

This past weekends project were the gauges and wiring harness. All were torn down, cleaned and repaired as necessary. The carriers were badly rusted and corroded so all had to be stripped and cleared or repainted as original including the white interiors. All hardware restored. Next comes a new gauge lens face and then mounted into the dash carrier that was in excellent shape. I will finish on the dash carrier in the coming evenings and assemble it as a unit in anticipation of installing it shortly.

[Xplantdad]

Beautiful!

[SS427]

As a general rule I replace all wiring harnesses whether they need to or not at least under the hood for safety reasons. The rest depends on the condition. When ever I use reproduction harnesses I always open them up and replace some of the wires with correctly colored ones from my inventory and change out any incorrect ones. American Auto Wire custom made all the harnesses on the car by hand using some of the items I sent them and they did a great job. The dash harness was still in great shape so I ended up restoring my original using original style tapes and wraps. Original color coded fuses were also cleaned and reused.

All electrical switches were disassembled, rebuild and relubed. I do this on almost every restoration to insure everything is brand new.

The intermediate harness was supplied by AAW and the sheathing was the original which was restored.

[marxjunk]

surprised the painted fuses survived so well..hard to get in 2019

[WILMASBOYL78]

The level of detail in this restoration is amazing...no other way to describe it.

As others have said over and over...fantastic job

-wilma

[SS427]

As many of you may remember, our front bucket seats were toast. This was from a dog living in the car for a while as well as years of racoon infestation. Needless to say a complete and total rebuild was in order. We started by removing the seat covers, foam, burlap and cardboard stripping the seats down to bare frames. These were then aluminum oxide blasted and (against what I normally do) repainted in silver paint as they were fairly rusty and I did not want to look at that. The hinges were than painted a semi gloss black to match how they were originally done. Once painted they were completely rebuilt and assembled.

All of the hardware was restored, replated or replaced depending on condition. The rear seat was in very good condition but we went ahead and followed the same procedure as the fronts due to the fact that there was racoon piss everywhere and we did not want to deal with that.

[SS427]

The seat tracks were restored just as thoroughly as the seats. While the tracks were left natural steel the feet we painted semi gloss black. This was done by soaking in Evap-Rust. One thing I noted between 69 and 70, the 70 cars usually only had the rear feet painted black while this particular 69 they were painted both front and rear. These were duplicated exactly as found. The feet were resprayed semi gloss black, the release levers were repainted to simulate the type of plating that they have on them and the springs were repainted. Once complete they were Boe-Shielded, the tracks lubricated with new grease and the re-installed on the finished seats.

[SS427]

The radio and antenna lead was sent into S&M Electro-Tech in Minnesota for restoration. I have been using them for 40 years with very good success and never had an issue. They were both in fairly good shape so he completely tore them down, cleaned, re-lubed, updated with modern electronics and tested. Now ready to install. While at it I restored the antenna cable clamps and protective cover. Fortunately the cover was there and in good shape as these can be a tough item to find.

[ScottG]

Originally Posted by SS427

The radio and antenna lead was sent into S&M Electro-Tech in Minnesota for restoration. I have been using them for 40 years with very good success and never had an issue. They were both in fairly good shape so he completely tore them down, cleaned, re-lubed, updated with modern electronics and tested. Now ready to install. While at it I restored the antenna cable clamps and protective cover. Fortunately the cover was there and in good shape as these can be a tough item to find.

Your floors look better than most paint work ever seen..