Our 69 Yenko Chevelle restoration

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**SS427** · #11 03-21-2019, 04:34 AM

There was no front clip with the car other than the fenders so I cannot say for sure on the grille mounting nuts. What is currently in place are aftermarket ones.

Regarding the headlight buckets I did find the originals in the garage and they were galvanized steel. I have found this on other Chevrolets and believe it to possibly be a supplier thing. A good friend of mine who also has a Baltimore car has the black buckets in his. As I have said many times in the past, I restore our cars how we find them if we are reasonably sure the parts are original. In the case of our headlight buckets I have no reason to believe they were not original to the car as they all had slight damage from the accident.

The other difference is the galvanized buckets take a closed stainless trim ring spring hook hole and the tension spring attaches to it (also found in the garage) whereas the painted buckets have an open spring hole and the tension spring attaches to the bucket. I can post pictures of each tomorrow.

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