Our 69 Yenko Chevelle restoration

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

Originally Posted by SS427

This project has brought out some of the best people in the hobby regarding parts and knowledge and we are a bit overwhelmed. A HUGE shoutout to John Hoer or his sYc sign on "JOHN" for his donation to our restoration yesterday. John contacted me and offered us his set of 4 NOS trim rings to us at no charge in return for as he put it, "how we have helped the hobby". He went on further to add, "I found a situation that I could contribute to the hobby and hopefully it will encourage others to do the same." Many people already have and not just free or reduced priced parts but also in the vast knowledge that some had with the 69 Chevelle and/or Yenko Chevelles. We could not have done it without their help.

Thanks also to the many others who have parted with some of their cherished parts they had been keeping for their own project but instead offered them to us for the car. Unreal.

This is exactly what happened with my restoration as well, sYc people helped me in every way possible.

Ryan W31

[WILMASBOYL78]

Originally Posted by SS427

This project has brought out some of the best people in the hobby regarding parts and knowledge and we are a bit overwhelmed. A HUGE shoutout to John Hoer or his sYc sign on "JOHN" for his donation to our restoration yesterday. John contacted me and offered us his set of 4 NOS trim rings to us at no charge in return for as he put it, "how we have helped the hobby". He went on further to add, "I found a situation that I could contribute to the hobby and hopefully it will encourage others to do the same." Many people already have and not just free or reduced priced parts but also in the vast knowledge that some had with the 69 Chevelle and/or Yenko Chevelles. We could not have done it without their help.

Thanks also to the many others who have parted with some of their cherished parts they had been keeping for their own project but instead offered them to us for the car. Unreal.

Rick...are those 15" trim rings..?? I see the GM boxes, just curious what the part number is on those?? Glad to hear it is going so well.

Tom

[luzl78]

Originally Posted by WILMASBOYL78

Rick...are those 15" trim rings..?? I see the GM boxes, just curious what the part number is on those?? Glad to hear it is going so well.

Tom

It’s probably a 6696

[luv2sixty9]

Originally Posted by luzl78

It’s probably a 6696

Those are the later ones. Rick's car will need the ones with the four outer clips.

[Postsedan]

Glad she is back home safe and sound

Dan

[SS427]

We spent another 8 hours walking the museum. This was our third trip through it and still have not seen it all. Unreal.

[Xplantdad]

The SYC folks are the best in the hobby...You and Annie included. You know what they say about karma....


Great stuff Rick and Annie...and a shout out to John and the SYC folks who have helped along the way

[SS427]

Yes, 9796696

[SS427]

Annie and I got started on the assembly last night. Fairly straightforward since I was about 95% done with all the parts restoration. Annie worked in the interior while I worked on the tail end of the car. She installed all the headliner trim, dome light harness and heater box. I still have to add the firewall upper insulation. Thanks to Mark P for the templates needed to cut the insulation.

Annie went on to finish installing the intermediate harness and antenna. Using black tape just like the factory did she replicated the installation of the antenna wire to the firewall.

[SS427]

Just some small details I took care of while she was working on her stuff. Note the spring steel retainer used by the factory to hold the brake/clutch assembly to the dash carrier during installation. I commonly see these and this one was restored and replaced.

Firewall insulation pad was put in place before mounting the heater box and pedal assembly. This is an expensive pad but more closely resembles the factory version rather than using the flat piece of crap that most people sell.

This small red oxide clip helps hold the base of the windshield chrome. These are missing most of the time but ours were still in place so they were restored and replaced.

The monitors come with slotted screws but ours was held on with oval headed phillips screws so that is what went back on. Right or wrong that is what was on there. The harness hook and original and very hard to find bolt was restored and replaced mounted next to the monitor.

I replaced the yellow "215" on the cowl top exactly as I found it during the clean up. I am not sure what this number relates to but have found numbers like this on the 70 cowls as well (though on the other side) and those number also had nothing to do with any numbers on the build sheet or build sequence. Most likely an inspector number.