My new 1968 Nova L79 project.

[Tommy]

Jason, my black 68 has a blue interior and the inner door frames and window frames are blue. Your Nova is really looking nice !!


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[Nova Jed]

Any updates?

[jasonL78]

Jed,
Sorry to say not much has been done. With only one day a week lately my progress has been slow. It’s all the small things that seem to consume all your time. I spent 6 hours on Sunday cleaning up my inner quarter window tracks and installing the exterior quarter window trim on both sides. Man the day just flew by. I have my quarter windows all cleaned up and ready to go into the car I just have to attach the guide to the end of each quarter window. Then onto the vent window assembly, rebuilding and installing them. I have all my brake and fuel lines in place. Actually to fire the car up all I need to do is install the distributor and exhaust. But I can’t do that until I get both fenders back onto the car. I have my Ac suit case at vintage air in FL they are checking everything out to make sure I am not going to have any problems. Once I get the suit case back and installed I can mount both front fenders. Then check my front bumper alignment to see if the sub frame needs any tweaking left to right. Once that is all set I will be able to install the exhaust. Hopefully by then I will have my dash all back together. We will see.
I keep bolting parts on slowly. I did just get an order back from the chrome shop on Friday. I had the original door handles vent window handles and front foil badge bezels re-chromed. Its nice knowing original parts are going to fit when you go to bolt them back on. I was able to re-use all my original bright trim around the door and quarter windows. I just de-anodized them and buffed the aluminum back to a nice shine. They came out real nice. I can’t wait to see the body side moldings on the car. In due time it will all come together.

Jason

[jasonL78]

I finished up the driver side glass and trim tonight. Very time consuming restoring all these pieces you will never see.




Accell wires installed

[Nova Jed]

Its all about the little details Jason. That's what makes a restoration a restoration. Good job! Looking great!

[jasonL78]

I am bringing my drive shaft to work tomorrow to blast it in our big blast cabinet. I knew I have seen the drive shaft stripes on other restorations so I figured I would look on mine. Sure enough I found them 14 inches from the back. Looks like three orange stripes? Does anyone know why these stripes are on the drive shafts??? I am going to duplicate these stripes are all three suposed to be orange??



Jason

[Nova Jed]

Why does the first one look yellow to me?

[WILMASBOYL78]

Jason...they are most likely 2 or 3 different colors....I believe the codes related to the engine/trans combo application for each vehicle. It will be interesting to see if any other 68 owners have color code info available. You need to rig up some rollers to hold the driveshaft and allow it to spin while you apply paint with a small brush....a foam one might work best.

wilma

[jasonL78]

In the picture it does look yellow. That would be the last stripe towards the transmission. The three stripes were 14 inches from the rear. Did you find any on your blue nova?

[MosportGreen66]

Jason,

Send the drive shaft to Quanta and have them reskin it. Much more correct than blasting and painting.

Dan