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

[Salvatore]

Testors transparent blue is a real good match for those fuel line clamps.

[NorCam]

Continuing with cleaning the floors...one section at a time. Slow and tedious work but is going to look so much better once its all done. Definitely worth the effort.

[R68GTO]

Your floors are looking great Graeme! Cleaning them is slow, tedious, but very rewarding work. I'm curious on your comment about blue paint transfer from the fuel line clip. Clean the frame rail around the clip, I suspect you will find the same bluish hue from a combination of gray primer and LB overspray. That's what I found in that area on my car. Here's a couple of pics from mine that show the floors after cleaning. One pic is where the driveshaft loop was installed when the car was new. All of my clips had the tang engaged in the frame hole, none were folded over.

[NorCam]

Those clips were off the rear inside frame rail and doubt any lemans blue paint would have gotten up there above the diff on the inside of the rails? I thought the blue paint traces on the frame was simply the blue from the clips maybe having transferred surfaces from any moisture that the car might have seen from early road use. In any case...it's all good.

Also had the chance to soak the original front springs in evapo-rust for the past week and it cleaned them up rather nicely. Even the original paper tags came out clean after being in there for a week w/o eating the labels. I think these will be going back onto the car when I get to the front end. First I'll have to see if I can find a set of NOS lower ball joints to replace the service units that were installed when the springs were swapped out. That would at least have it back to stock.

[napa68]

Beautiful work Graeme!

[NorCam]

A little update on the car after taking a break over the holidays for some needed family time. Today I went through every single fastener on the car and the good news is that there isn't much that's missing at all. The bad news is so much of it was painted and fluffed then they redid the motor. That now it has me wanting to strip and clean each fastener to do it right. Next up, I'll be removing the driveline in order to get at all of the areas where it was painted and fluffed. The black paint is actually coming off nicely since they never prepped anything, but I hate working around things like suspension and driveline so all of that will be coming out this week. I looked at all the subframe bushings today and they are all really decent except one on the back of the driver's side where the bottom rubber needs replaced. More to come.

[NorCam]

Just unhooked the shifter and pulled the manifolds for some refinishing. Now I'll pull the ignition and motor mount bolts and then it's all coming out. Depending on how accessible everything becomes, I may take it a step further later in the week and pull the front clip. I really want to do a thorough clean up on this car and don't like taking short cuts.

[big gear head]

I wish I enjoyed cleaning as much as you. I've got everything out of my car right now, but I hate cleaning.

[NorCam]

Pull the two ground straps, fuel line, add the tilter and it's ready for plucking. Just added 250 new songs to my music list for the shop. Time to get busy!!!

[luv2sixty9]

Graeme,

What are the dates on your exhaust manifolds? Thanxs Dave