Paint spot on leaf leaf springs (yellow Yenko)

[Rat_Pack]

BKH, you asked and you shall receive. The next three posts are of a blue mark, pink paint duab, and a yellow paint stripe. These are all unrestored 67 - 69 Camaros. My memory failed me on as to how the yellow was marked as I thought it was done like a Mustang but I was wrong. It did not have a spring tag on it and it was a LOS built 67 car. The assembly manuals in 67-68 show the paint stripe to the front of the car. My 69 manual is missing the spring installation pages so I could not check them right now. Also the 69 P&A manual lists what these colors are for on the 67's but not on the 68-69's. Each plant used its own way of identifying a spring and it changed throughout the year. Everyone restoring a car needs to research their car before starting the restoration for these reasons. Nothing is etched in stone, like the black tailpanels (remember) [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] ....................RatPack.............

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[T Billigen]

Thanks Rat Pack, When I talked to Tinnell he said that those paint dobs were correct! I personally did not know, but it looks like he was right. I was referring to Dave Belk's post on the 1969 Yenko that he posted for his friend.

[bkhpah]

I am gald to see some real pictures, but let's see some of a unrestored 69 Yenko or COPO that the post was about. I have yet to see a tail panel on a Camaro that was not gloss. The reason I am questioning this is that so many times a restoration is follow the leader. Guys add all kinds of marks that were never there. I always take pictures of the odd stuff like you. If the restoration is done the way it was found I love it. I have see some crazy made up marks and I will bet you have too...BKH

[Rat_Pack]

BKH, you are right, if the restoration is done properly it would done the way the car was found. There are a lot of cars that have been restored as "follow the leader" and they are wrong. Now as to pictures of COPOs or Yenkos with these spring markings, I do not have any. In your original post, which has been deleted, you stated "all Camaros" not the COPOs or Yenkos did not have them. However, I believe I have some of an SS396 that has them and those springs were no different than a COPO or Yenko: either BK or BM coded. Like I said earlier not all cars were marked this way and it depended upon which plant and what time of year the car was built. Research the car before restoration and document it.

To me the yellow car was done as "correct" as possible at the time of restoration. It is a nicely done over-restored car that most people like to see. Once the vinyl top is installed it should be correct. The paint daubs on the fronts of the springs can always be removed if the owner so decides. Not knocking the yellow car as to what was correct or not, I did notice that the spring tags were wrong and you did not mention that.

The tailpanels we have discussed before as to why there are varing shades of gloss but that is another day and time for discussion [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smirk.gif[/img] ..............RatPack..............

[Nova Research Project]

Just a FYI, while researching springs on the Nova board, I saw paint stripe identification references in the 69 parts books for 68 and earlier leaf springs. Not all had them but many did. G.

[Steve Shauger]

I have seen the paint stripe on LA built cars only. I also noticed the LA built cars did not have spring tags.