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[32KZ]

Looks beautiful!

Can't tell, but if you didn't "blue" your draglink: Brownells Oxpho-blue. Very simple to do, a little goes a long way, and adds a nice touch to welds on driveshaft.

I also thought it brought back a nice raw cast finish to the yokes, opinions probably vary on that.

I believe engine frame mounts more of a gloss, double check, I'm at work, notes at home.

Very enjoyable thread.

[Tracker1]

Nice work!

Yenko member Edgemontvillage is doing one of the most definitive restorations on a '69 Camaro ever, over on Team Camaro - this is page 23 where he gets into the blue-ing process for drag-links. Following anything he is doing is a good call for your resto.

https://www.camaros.net/forums/133-b...roject-23.html

[R68GTO]

Thanks for the comments guys. I actually had the engine stands painted a 60% gloss originally and thought they looked too shiny so I re-painted them. Maybe they should be closer to 45% instead of 30% like the subframe?
I've seen Loyd's thread and you are correct, that is an "over the top" resto! I'm not saying the drag link shouldn't be that dark gray finish, I'm just wondering then should the outer tie rod pcs. that hook to them also be that way? I'm assuming same supplier would have used the same process on all those parts?

[R68GTO]

I did a little more archeology on the car tonight now that I'm getting into some of the trim pcs. The 4 corner marker lights are shown in the pic below. The two on the bottom are the rears, the two on the top are the fronts. The fronts have the "ice blue" overspray from the 1970 paint job. The rears were covered in trunk spatter from when the car got painted black in 1978. I started to clean the trunk spatter off and "lo and behold" red paint!?? I called the guy that painted the car back in 1970 to ask if the rear tail panel was painted red back then. He didn't think so but wasn't sure. As I'm talking to him, I'm looking at some of the photos the 2nd owner's son gave me. I had never noticed it before, but there it was, one pic showed a red tail panel! That pic also shows the trunk lid sans spoiler and where the paint line was between the blue and white. In the conversation, the painter told me that he might still have the old paint cans in his shop - wouldn't that be cool! He said the three colors he used were "ice blue pearl metallic, silver mist pearl white, and candy apple red.

[Baron Von Zeppelin]

Sort of has the old Sox&Martin race team look in that picture.

[ZLP955]

Very cool carchaeology!

[R68GTO]

Weekend Update: Worked on some more small bolt on parts today. Floor pan plugs all dated H37 - same as some of the other sheetmetal on the car. ZL-2 throttle arm cleaned up good as did the rear axle snubbers and brackets. Kind of a weird group of stamping marks on the snubber brackets - more pronounced on one bracket vs the other. All these parts and original bolts will go back on the car.

[jbtech]

Wow! Very Cool!

[R68GTO]

underside got some color this week. Most of you will recognize the photos taped to the firewall....I told the shop to duplicate the color and overspray patterns of Grady's car as I really liked how that one turned out and it was very close to what I found when I hand-stripped mine. Should get body paint next week.

[scuncio]

That is one heck of a nice restoration....wow.