special paint cars

[olredalert]

Originally Posted by RPOLS3

Yes - I have pictures of your beautiful LS6 there I think - will have to check at home.

Dave - doesn't that kinda look like Dad checking out under the hood in Slims picture?

----I don't think that back then your Dad was quite that heavy, but could be wrong, Jake!

[RPOLS3]

It was 7/29/11

[RPOLS3]

More pics - I loved looking at this car and took a fair amount of pictures.

[slimsls6]

you sure took some pics. lol I think like so many others I had the air cleaner seal on upside down. I did that back in the mid eighties when i was young, dumb and didn't have a clue. Now i'm old and have somewhat of a clue, not much

[Big Block Bill]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

One more and then I'll quit:

I did not remember this but in the '73-77 timeframe you could not order a LD squarebody pickup in "black". It was not available as a regular production option.

You could, however, order it as a COPO and tap into Specialty Equipment Option 9V1 and access the black available for fleet and Medium Duty trucks.

We had a '75 2wd Short box in black, but I did not remember dad saying he had to do anything special to get it.

It became a regular option in '78.

K

I did the same thing in 1976 with a Loaded F-250 4X4 I ordered. I went though all the hoops to get it in silver and paid I think $250.00 extra for the factory to do it and the next year in 1977 it was a standard, available, color. Every 1977 on the road seemed to be silver, my dumb luck. I got razzed by all my buddies at the time that I paid $250.00 extra for a truck in "Primer with Clear" as they called it. I even tried to get the 2008 ZO-6 Corvette I ordered new in the fall of 2007 in Hugger Orange, but they wouldn't do it at any cost, progress? Bill

[Billohio]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

That's the way the regular production vehicles were painted, too.

Often the body was painted at one end of the plant and the front end sheetmetal painted at the other end of the plant (or, in the case of Buicks, at the other end of town!).

My '80 Chevy (which I ordered and followed down the line as it was built) was built in Flint and the front end never did match the rest of the truck.

K

Did Buicks get moved with the back half painted to another assembly plant? Would be weird to see car bodies being moved like that

[SPEEDYB]

Awesome engine compartment photos,Thanks

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Billohio

Did Buicks get moved with the back half painted to another assembly plant? Would be weird to see car bodies being moved like that

Yes - Bodies were built at the north end of Flint, and then the incomplete car was shipped to the south end of town for final assembly.

K

[Kurt S]

Another description of the paint process. There were regular arguments on whose paint was the correct color, Fisher or the division.
http://www.camaros.org/assemblyprocess.shtml

[dykstra]

Originally Posted by RPOLS3

Yes - I have pictures of your beautiful LS6 there I think - will have to check at home.

Dave - doesn't that kinda look like Dad checking out under the hood in Slims picture?

I thought the same thing! I remember you and I both loving this car and you taking all these pics.