Z/28 Paint Application ??? - 76 76 Daytona Yellow

[X66 714]

You & I have spoken about this car many times. I have a different perspective of this car today than I had when you first purchased it. You now have original docs & lots of the original equipment. You have even found some of the missing pieces that were lost during previous sales.

If it was mine & I wanted it to be day 2, it would have to be restored back to day 1 first because in it's day, that's where it all started. You have one chance to get it back to day one. After that, all the evidence is gone.

Just my opinion, which I know you didn't ask for....but

Keep pluggin'. Love it...Joe

[NorCam]

FWIW, Stefano had a car a few years ago that was later sold as a prepped roller that was completely finished in primer/sealer. It was a yellow on yellow RS Z/28 and the floors were finished much how this car was found with a lot of gray original primer and lot's of yellow overspray in the rear of the car. Mine appears to have even more yellow up in the tunnel but the grey primed base is nearly identical and there does not appear to be any black other than the lower floor plans, the transmission tunnel area. Some sound deadener is also applied to the back wheel openings and was over-sprayed along the rear frame rails between the time the floors were done and the body surface was sprayed. Firewall was of course black over yellow as stated earlier

Here are the pics of that other yellow on yellow car.

[cruiserofland]

My master fabricator / engine builder friend used to say, anything man made can be rebuilt. I tend to like the newer restoration style of factory-correct underside colors even with day-two parts, but if you document everything with detailed photographs then you (or a future owner) can always restore it or freshen it up a different way in 10 years, or 50 years... either way it will be a beaut!

[NorCam]

FWIW, Stefano had a car a few years ago that was later sold as a prepped roller that was completely finished in primer/sealer. It was a yellow on yellow RS Z/28 and the floors were finished much how this car was found with a lot of gray original primer and lot's of yellow overspray in the rear of the car. Mine appears to have even more yellow up in the tunnel but the grey base is nearly identical in the rear area of the car. On mine, there does not appear to be any black base other than the lower floor plans and up in the transmission tunnel area. Sound deadener was also applied to the back wheel openings and was over-sprayed along the rear frame rails after the wheel openings being done, and before the time the body surface was sprayed yellow. I say that because the wheel tuns were yellow, then had the sound deadener applied, then they have another dusting of yellow overspray on them from when the body was shot. Firewall was of course black over yellow as stated earlier.

Here are the pics of that other yellow on yellow car. It does not have any black applied to the floor boards as mine does?

[R68GTO]

Here's another unsolicited opinion for ya....my car is missing all it's original drivetrain and I only have ownership history back to early 1970 for documentation on mine. Even though I'm not going 100% correct at this point with smog and exhaust and will add race trim graphics in vinyl, I decided to replicate the factory overspray I found during hand-stripping because it would be a bear to try to do it down the road. All the race trim stuff will be bolt on or "peel off" so a future owner can go the factory stock route with relative ease. Going for the "best of both worlds" as I have a high appreciation for both.

[firstgenaddict]

Dave Beems Yenko... original paint

[NorCam]

Killer car isn't it? Joe sent me to look at that one over on CRG when I started looking into original paint. It's definitely got some things on it that one could learn from. Thanks for posting those images Jag.