I haven't checked in to this site for a while.

Looks like the CopoCamaro has you completely under its spell now.
Glad it's turning out to be such a really clean body.
Great Work you are putting into it.

It's going to be an extremely righteous car :headbang:

Made some more progress today. Started cleaning up my original disc brake valve. It had remnants of "ice blue" paint that was applied in 1970. Dated 155th day of '69. Also finished up the rear end by mounting the leaf springs - pretty happy with how that all turned out. Cleaned up my original parking brake cable hook - any idea if this was originally natural metal or phosphate? Guy I met at a local car show told me he had an original jack assembly from his car sitting on a shelf. Now it's going to be part of this car, it cleaned up really nice!

Well, got the front subframe pretty much completed today. Let me know if you see anything wrong, now's the time to fix it. Most everything you see is original to the car including brake lines/clips, all steering components, 2 pc. rotors. Ball joints, and bushings replaced with OE quality stuff. Brake calipers are originals and dated correct, just not original to this car. Natural metal stuff is all cleaned and coated in Baoshield.

I don't know enough about it to know if it's correct or not, but it sure looks good!

This is really looking nice, Jim. Thanks for sharing!

I agree with BGH, not a purist but looks good. Especially with mostly original stuff.

/Rich

Looks beautiful!

Can't tell, but if you didn't "blue" your draglink: Brownells Oxpho-blue. Very simple to do, a little goes a long way, and adds a nice touch to welds on driveshaft.

I also thought it brought back a nice raw cast finish to the yokes, opinions probably vary on that.

I believe engine frame mounts more of a gloss, double check, I'm at work, notes at home.

Very enjoyable thread.

Nice work!

Yenko member Edgemontvillage is doing one of the most definitive restorations on a '69 Camaro ever, over on Team Camaro - this is page 23 where he gets into the blue-ing process for drag-links. Following anything he is doing is a good call for your resto.

https://www.camaros.net/forums/133-b...roject-23.html

Thanks for the comments guys. I actually had the engine stands painted a 60% gloss originally and thought they looked too shiny so I re-painted them. Maybe they should be closer to 45% instead of 30% like the subframe?
I've seen Loyd's thread and you are correct, that is an "over the top" resto! I'm not saying the drag link shouldn't be that dark gray finish, I'm just wondering then should the outer tie rod pcs. that hook to them also be that way? I'm assuming same supplier would have used the same process on all those parts?

I did a little more archeology on the car tonight now that I'm getting into some of the trim pcs. The 4 corner marker lights are shown in the pic below. The two on the bottom are the rears, the two on the top are the fronts. The fronts have the "ice blue" overspray from the 1970 paint job. The rears were covered in trunk spatter from when the car got painted black in 1978. I started to clean the trunk spatter off and "lo and behold" red paint!??:confused2: I called the guy that painted the car back in 1970 to ask if the rear tail panel was painted red back then. He didn't think so but wasn't sure. As I'm talking to him, I'm looking at some of the photos the 2nd owner's son gave me. I had never noticed it before, but there it was, one pic showed a red tail panel! That pic also shows the trunk lid sans spoiler and where the paint line was between the blue and white. In the conversation, the painter told me that he might still have the old paint cans in his shop - wouldn't that be cool! He said the three colors he used were "ice blue pearl metallic, silver mist pearl white, and candy apple red.