1967 Camaro ss/rs restoration

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.
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YOU are the first person to say that, so I'm not nuts.....was it a LOS built car ?
Did you repaint the floor ? If so, what did you use to replicate this color ?
 
YOU are the first person to say that, so I'm not nuts.....was it a LOS built car ?
Did you repaint the floor ? If so, what did you use to replicate this color ?
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
 
I sand blasted the underside last week and shot it with epoxy sealer yesterday. Ready for the seam sealing today. Just ordered more epoxy primer and a gallon of universal. Once the color is on the floor, it will get flattened clear over it and I can reinstall the fuel tank, rear axle assembly and the front subframe again.
 
I sand blasted the underside last week and shot it with epoxy sealer yesterday. Ready for the seam sealing today. Just ordered more epoxy primer and a gallon of universal. Once the color is on the floor, it will get flattened clear over it and I can reinstall the fuel tank, rear axle assembly and the front subframe again.
We like pictures! And they have been around long before the Internet. ;)
 
When I get focused and busy, I forget to take pics. I think my wife has one of me sand blasting on her phone. I'll see if I can figure out how to get it to photobucket. Wow, that was too easy, I copied it from my download file and pasted it here. Of course, I didn't know I could do that, but my smarter half did...;)

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I cleaned the original fuel tank some...it's so banged up that it wasn't worth doing a spectacular job. And the fuel and brake hard lines as well. I don't have any pics of that. I'll get some and add later.
I then switched projects and changed out a broken tail housing on my '66 Chevelle Muncie. That snapped last year while drag racing and the driveshaft went into a jump rope shape and vibrated so bad it broke the housing off. I had swapped in a rear axle with 4.56 gears and was later told the deep gear ratio caused the driveshaft to spin beyond it's rotation stress point. So... I now have a spankin' new, fancy aluminum driveshaft too. I swapped the 3.31 axle back in yesterday, so I can drive it on the street again.
Today, I'm swapping transmissions on the Camaro. I rebuilt an M21 several years ago and had that in for the move 4 years ago, but first gear isn't ideal with 3.31 rear gears, so I'm replacing it with an M20 I bought last fall. The entire rolling subframe is sitting in my way, right in front of the rotisserie, so it is about as easy as it gets to swap now. I need to get back on the paint thing and get the complete dash and the cowl replacement I did last winter in primer/sealer so I can do final seam sealing for paint.
Last week, I sprayed 80 gallons of weed control and this week spread 160 lbs of fertilizer on the yard between rain events, which have been quite frequent all May. We really needed the rain, so I'm not complaining, but doing all these things has kept me hopping around. Now I need to mow every 3 days and that's a 2 hour job in itself.
So don't think I'm just sitting on my butt and screwing off...:D
 
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