Old pics - 1969 Z/28 - Page 4

**Bill Pritchard** · #1 10-26-2010, 07:35 AM

Who needs the extra weight of door sill plates [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smirk.gif[/img]

And for that matter, who needs a heater or wipers? Red Dymo Labelmaker tape on heater blockoff plate listed valve lash settings for the '140' Z28 off-road cam.

**olredalert** · #2 10-26-2010, 03:16 PM

-----Bill,,,To your knowledge did this Z have its original springs when you took these pics. Am trying to make a point to myself.......Bill S

**Bill Pritchard** · #3 10-27-2010, 05:16 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: olredalert</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
-----Bill,,,To your knowledge did this Z have its original springs when you took these pics. Am trying to make a point to myself.......Bill S </div></div>

Bill,

I am very confident that the springs were original. When I got the car, it had not been modified very much, just used and <span style="font-weight: bold">REALLY</span> abused.....hence the reason I got it for 300 bucks [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img] Seems to me it had somewhere around 40K miles showing.

**smallblockhero** · #4 10-26-2010, 10:50 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bill Pritchard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">OK, since we're posting vintage pics of 69 Z28's, I dug out some old pictures of mine and scanned them. </div></div>

bravo! i love this thread. nothin better then seeing these cars as they were back then.

again... another 69 Z with no spoiler. i see more pics of original Z's back then without spoilers. now every Z on the planet has a spoiler.

**Carleen** · #5 10-26-2010, 09:48 AM

From CRG

1969 Camaro Grille Color
Grille Color
Model non-RS | RS
------------ ----------------
SS black* | black*
Z28 silver | black*
All else** silver | black*
--------------------------------
* except Tuxedo Black exterior, which
always received a silver grille.
** incl COPO

1969 Grille Part Numbers * Color
Model black silver
------ -------- --------
Non-RS 3957062 3957044
RS 3938641 3949759

-------------------------
*1969 P&A30 Chassis Manual

**MosportGreen66** · #6 10-26-2010, 02:28 PM

Bill, fantastic photos! Thanks for sharing!

The work as indicated...

Does anyone remember this place? Super Cars? My Dad has fantastic stories from it...

Donutblue · #7 10-30-2010, 04:42 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MosportGreen66</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Bill, fantastic photos! Thanks for sharing!

The work as indicated...

Does anyone remember this place? Super Cars? My Dad has fantastic stories from it...

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I remember that place well, it was a British motorycle repair and supply shop before that - used to head there frequently to get parts for my Triumph Bonneville. Business did not last to long before the Supercars moved in, but I don't recall them being around to often as well. I think it's an home heating and oil company now.

**Survivor 69/Z28** · #8 10-26-2010, 03:25 PM

Love the old pictures!!!
Another thing I would like to add to this is that these 69 Z's were few and far between with the cowl hoods. Flat hoods were found on a very large # of these cars. But now almost every Z you see has a cowl hood. One of the first comments that MacNeish said when going over my car was wow you still have the flat hood...

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n.../wacZ28001.jpg

al8apex · #9 10-26-2010, 05:54 PM

It looks like that car had the factory stereo kick panel speakers ... and they are gone too, too much weight ... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

**Bill Pritchard** · #10 10-27-2010, 05:29 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: al8apex</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It looks like that car had the factory stereo kick panel speakers ... and they are gone too, too much weight ... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]</div></div>

Jim,

You're absolutely correct.....but how in the world can you see that [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/confused.gif[/img] I have the original photo, and it doesn't show in that, nor in the photo that appears on my computer screen here. The car had a perfectly functioning Blue Light AM-FM stereo and all four accompanying speakers. Removed the Blue Light and sold it to a friend for ten bucks....took out the speakers and grilles and put them in a 69 Nova beater I had at the time. It also must have had a console and gages originally, but those were long gone when I bought the car....I seem to remember a wiring pigtail for the gages coming down from under the dash or the firewall area???

The cowl hood on the car was purchased used. I have no idea which hood it would have had originally. I ordered a rear spoiler for the car and sent it along to the body shop to be painted along with the car. The shop informed me that the spoiler did not extend all the way out to the edges of the quarter panel, so I just told them to leave it off....didn't know a thing about the different spoiler widths back then [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

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