The quarter scrips were retained by a barrel clip style wire integral to the pin, I had not seen this before. One side survived but the other I used self threading nuts.
The rural desert road grime really layered on the rear, the tailgate script I thought was dull chrome. After scrubbing with Aluminum Brightener and a tooth brush, then chrome polish and a tooth brush I was surprised to see how they cleaned up!
Same treatment on all the rear trim and tail light housings. Virtually no pot metal pits to be found!
It's my experience that Steele Rubber Products has the best fitting seals for tail lights used here and on '67 El Camino's. NOS lenses were used to brighten things up.
About three hours of hard rubbing with chrome polish brought the bumper around to a shine much better than I expected. New, un-polished, stainless capped bumper bolts had just the right finish to match. The original license screw nuts and rubber bumpers are in great shape. This is the original bumper, still riveted to the center bracket. I understand that 1st Gen Camaro's the rivet head is on the face side, on Chevelles the head is on the back side.
The original CA tag and frame were cleaned and installed. The backup lamps were given an Evapo-Rust bath, cleaned, and the white paint replicated, finished up with NOS lenses.
This about wraps up the car from the cowl rearward. This is where I was at about two weeks ago, so real time is not far away. I started this project last summer but have had several diversions along the way, not the least of which has been helping push along a stunning restoration of a buddy's rust free CA '67 SS that I sold him more than 30 years ago.
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