1969 Cross-Ram Z/28

[the427king]

Well at least it can be concluded that the oil cap is on the correct side. Ralley green is a great color.

[firstgenaddict]

FWIW take some thinner on a rag and wipe off the INK JET letter and number coding on the hoses... there were no ink jet coders in 1967-1969.

[watk69]

At Camaro Nationals this car would get murdered by judges. Lot of this resto was done to mid 2000's knowledge and acceptance, and frankly, scoring too even at MCACN. My car scored 993 in 2009 there, but with numerous errors when it went up against the big boys in Frederick 2015. Say what you want about them, they know their stuff

In Jerry's book its says black or natural on the brake reservoir, now its been universally accepted as natural. Chrome tips only came out with May 15th etc etc. The subframe pitting and prep on this car goes into the "wtf were they thinking category"

[427TJ]

So all those grille badges don't mean much??? (LOL)

[William]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: watk69</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
In Jerry's book its says black or natural on the brake reservoir, now its been universally accepted as natural. </div></div>

Natural? Sez who? It's been established by former GM workers that masters and calipers arrived at the plants painted black. Vintage pics clearly show masters painted black.

[HawkX66]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: William</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: watk69</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
In Jerry's book its says black or natural on the brake reservoir, now its been universally accepted as natural. </div></div>

Natural? Sez who? It's been established by former GM workers that masters and calipers arrived at the plants painted black. Vintage pics clearly show masters painted black. </div></div>
Agreed. This says it all as far as I'm concerned. Look at line 26.

[William]

Engine bay photo of a COPO a few weeks after delivery.

http://www.icehouse.net/camaros/slvrcopo.htm

[Stefano]

Norwood Brake Masters were painted Black. For various reasons the paint did not usually stick very well, but we have seen enough original untouched cars over the years to document this. I belive that William and I concur on this issue topic [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[bigsixman]

My 69 Z/28 with 17,000 miles on it in 1972 had a black master cylinder. It may have started out gloss black, but by then it was faded down to somewhere between satin and flat black.

It was a Norwood cat built in August of 1969.

[olredalert]

----Although no expert, I agree on the black master. Along with that though is that I have always felt that only the rough casting was black. Any machined area would have no paint. In other words the whole raw master was painted black before it was machined........Bill S