OneStopRestoration's Special Orange 69 Chevelle 300 Deluxe Coupe

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The column was clearly removed and the auto unit was dumped back in. Like i mentioned earlier this car was parked on an indian reservation. Probably not much value to that owner at the time.

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Weekend of running. zinc and yellow zinc plating done. Radiator being recored. Picked up some sample 72 paint for a color spray out test. Looks very close,

[Tuna Joe]

How do you know what nut, bolt, and washer goes where?
Experience at doing these restorations so many times?

[OneStopRestoration]

Originally Posted by Tuna Joe

How do you know what nut, bolt, and washer goes where?
Experience at doing these restorations so many times?

When i first started redoing cars I would take pictures of bolt head markings. To be honest when your putting the car back together its process of elimination. The only place that can get confusing is on the interior finish screws but I mostly buy all reproduction of that stuff and everything mostly reproduced is spot on. Ive also kept a bit of a picture catalogue of different gm bolts/fastners with part numbers. This can also get confusing as i find different plants, different years, and even different times of the year bolt head markings changed, or even were mixed as cars were assembled.

Dad and I actually make a game out the pile. I can probably half the time get the location right just by looking at it, Dad is more like 90%.

My best advice is take pictures of the bolts for various assemblies together. If need be put a measuring stick in the picture so you have a size reference. If you dont know about AMK fastners, look them up and utilize there catalogues and other ref material to learn about what bolt was what gm number. Some of there stuff is spot on and some isnt. It also gets a little more dicey as some plants didnt follow the assembly manual and decided on there own fastner with different head, length, etc.

[cheveslakr]

.......and a lot of times you can google the part number in the aim and it'll come up on a vendor's website. AMK is a super resource.
I've always wondered why chevy used washered bolts on plated items and shouldered bolts on painted apps under the hood. Seems backwards to me. This is for black oxide.

[OneStopRestoration]

This is one of those jobs that honestly sucks. I get all my chrome stripped and do some prep work. For this restoration I only grabed the quater window chromes, hood vents, door handles and a set of valve covers. This about the most labor intensive work to do which is probably why nice chrome work costs alot.

Pretty simple stuff, you just need to sand out the pits, and then work your way back to around 400grit before there ready. First picture is a before and after getting the valve covers back stripped, and after is a piece sanded in 400. 2nd picture is about half way through at 120 grit.

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Im about finished working through trunk, and floor patching.

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Picked up the chrome work pieces I prepped a few weeks back. Admittingly the quality of work on these items are far superior to anything GM did. Noticed the nice thing with high quality chrome is that it wont scratch compared to original or some reproduction pieces i have had in hand.

Fun fact, valve covers were off an original copo Camaro 427

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I had an orignal BO 69 radiator recored. I still need to attach the tags. Also in the mix was another not often seen 68 OJ with the different stamped main tank XM.

Not to be too outdone but had another 3 core 66/67 to add to my collection and the ultimate 4 core 66/67 harrison. Now I just need to find another car for it!

[dykstra]

Looking great Rick!!