1967 Camaro ss/rs restoration
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Mitch
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I started cleaning the underside to seam seal and paint the new trunk and laying on a creeper with all the crap falling on me wasn't cutting it, so....
I gave in and did what I have, for 15 years, said I wouldn't do with the is car. It's just a driver, I just want it to look nice and not get caught up in a restoration that leaves me not wanting to drive it much.
My justification was, "it'll be easier and cleaner to do this on the roto". It took about an hour to detach what was left of the shell from the subframe and roll it out.
Then, the blue/Gray paint on the floor showed up and threw the whole thing in chaos again. I'm in a few Camaro, Chevelle and Yenko forums and no one has ever seen anything like this and claim it had to have been painted after it left the factory. Well, the paint is UNDER every part that is removable. The job itself, is typical factory quickie with runs and uneven coverage. Who the heck would strip a car to bare shell, sand to bare metal and then do a halfassed paint job ??? So I am carefully cleaning to preserve the paint and photo documenting it under everything I remove as proof that it was there first. Hopefully, with time, I'll find someone who has seen this and has, at least, a somewhat reasonable explanation of how this took place.
I gave in and did what I have, for 15 years, said I wouldn't do with the is car. It's just a driver, I just want it to look nice and not get caught up in a restoration that leaves me not wanting to drive it much.
My justification was, "it'll be easier and cleaner to do this on the roto". It took about an hour to detach what was left of the shell from the subframe and roll it out.
Then, the blue/Gray paint on the floor showed up and threw the whole thing in chaos again. I'm in a few Camaro, Chevelle and Yenko forums and no one has ever seen anything like this and claim it had to have been painted after it left the factory. Well, the paint is UNDER every part that is removable. The job itself, is typical factory quickie with runs and uneven coverage. Who the heck would strip a car to bare shell, sand to bare metal and then do a halfassed paint job ??? So I am carefully cleaning to preserve the paint and photo documenting it under everything I remove as proof that it was there first. Hopefully, with time, I'll find someone who has seen this and has, at least, a somewhat reasonable explanation of how this took place.
dhutton01
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I did this long before the internet so I didn’t really think much of it. The car had been Ziebarted and it was more or less pristine when I removed it. I painted the underside black…
Not sure where it was built, but it was purchased new on the west coast. Don
DanMcG
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Wow, you are old, lol
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