Nice 1969 Z/28 Find (7848 Miles)

[Mr.Nickey Nova]

He should look for a new resto guy,everything looks good to me stamping,stripes and the dip stick looks like the one on my car.What a great find,some guys have all the luck.

[Bill Pritchard]

Read the Team Camaro thread to the end now. Jan from Stockholm Sweden (I think he's a member on this site, too ) posted a scanned image of the Assembly Manual page showing the revised stripe dimensions for the rear deck. The Camaro owner now has a warm fuzzy feeling that his car is legit, so all is right with the world He also posted more pics of the car when it was still sitting in the field...appears NOT to be out in the middle of nowhere like one might suspect

[L-79 Nova]

Good read on Team Camaro, sure hit alot of objects in 7,500 miles. Ron...

[olredalert]

-----Survivor is one thing, but come on, this car really needs a paint job at the very least. Did you see the rear quarter??? On this particular Z the mileage is just a conversation peice. Hey,,,Take a bunch of good pics and then restore it.........Bill S

[camarojoe]

The problem is, it seems that 95% of the time when nice original cars like this are "restored", its by some hack resto shop that doesn't document anything or restore it correctly... and the car basically just gets a glorified paint job rather than a proper restoration it deserves, losing the cool original build details that are not duplicated and are lost forever. In doing so it would make a very solid and original car one of just another of the 100's of "sorta" restored 69 Z's. Now if someone like the Supercar Workshop did the car, noting all details specific to this car, the build processes of the plant it was built in, and properly duplicated everything in the process of the car's ressurection, I would say a complete restoration would be in order... aside from that, I'd rather see it left alone than have some shadetree shop tear it apart and do it all wrong. From what I read, the restoration shop this guy is considering didn't even think it was a real Z, so the odds of them restoring it properly are about slim to none.

[JIM]

The only question I see is Why does it have Red battery cables and butt connectors that appear newer and recent . I thought this car has been sitting for 20 plus years.

Jim

[camarojoe]

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The only question I see is Why does it have Red battery cables and butt connectors that appear newer and recent . I thought this car has been sitting for 20 plus years.

Jim

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Look at pics of any dragstrip in the USA from 69/70... They were FULL of brand new 69/70 cars that were totally cut up, painted on, modified in every way imaginable, and probably only had a few hundred miles on them at the time. I'm not saying the car is a guaranteed 7500 miler, but just because it has a few things missing/changed/damaged doesn't mean much to me...Seems like back then people weren't afraid to hack into their cars and change stuff right from the get go, and probably changed stuff like clamps and cables the first time the car needed a new hose or a battery.

[olredalert]

------Joe,,,I agree with you that a competent shop should do the resto, take pics of every step of disassembly and assembly, etc. Any and all markings even under paint should be noted as well. I should have said that but sort of thought I implied it, I guess........Bill S