Just Bought a 69 Z28 Project

[William]

Originally Posted by Bad67300

Some extra parts along with it - good flat hood...

Be sure the flat hood is a '69. Only year that has the tabs at the rear. Hood pad covers them but good to know.

[NorCam]

A great color combo and a very good interior group with deluxe blue comfort weave seats. Looks like you've found a great project car.

[X66 714]

Al Knoch Interior can redo those door panels. Nice project. I like the blue deluxe interior. I also like that it doesn't have ducted hood or spoilers. Not common. So many of these cars look like different colored clones of each other now days. Can't wait to see more...Joe

[scuncio]

Nice project! I also love the blue comfortweave - something you don't see very often.

[NorCam]

I also have to agree with many of the other comments on the cowl hood. Leave it as a flat hood car and resist the temptation to add the cowl hood. There are so many cowl hood cars out there now that I am personally sick of seeing them. In fact, the car I am restoring right now is a factory cowl hood car and although I have the hood and have restored it, I swapped it out for an aftermarket fiberglass hood and have set the original cowl hood aside.

As for the motor being gone, no big deal. Have some fun and build a hotrod LT1 motor for it. You can make it look dead on stock but will have a lot more power with the added cubes. Pick a good solid lifter camshaft and it will also sound every bit the part. I'd recommend you look at the Comp Cams Nostalgia 30/30 Plus #CCA-12-673-4

Sounds like this.

[1967 4K]

69 Z28 Lemans Blue with blue interior, doesn’t get much better. Build that small block that’s in it and save a bunch of money. Drive it and enjoy it. Nice ride.

Richard

[Jonesy]

In the pic with the hood, it looks like it has an SS hood on it.
716 Deluxe Comfortweave Blue interior is really nice with Lemans Blue.
You dont see that interior very often

Thats a great project car you picked up. very desirable colors.

[seventieshow]

"the power brake booster and front disc brakes were removed and replaced with drums..."

I'm sure there are other reasons but that is an old drag racers trick. Awesome tread pattern on that front tire. Great car, thanks for posting.

[firstgenaddict]

Also when replacing the seat covers be advised the REPRO covers are a pressed pattern VS the original which is an actual woven piece of material. The feel when sitting in the car is WORLDS APART!

SMS fabrics in Oregon has NOS COmfort Weave material in various colors for $150 a yard - takes 3 yards to do a car.
Send them your old rear and one bucket and they will pull the threads and make patterns from your originals and will sew new covers with NOS weave for you - we had a set of Neutral Comfort weave covers done by SMS last year - charge was $1300 for the front and back- it took us 8 months to get them done, so plan accordingly.

PERSONALLY If I had a car going to need it- I would buy the material to have for the car - if SMS runs out there will not be a source other than someone randomly having 3 yards of Blue Comfort Weave. I bought a couple yards of red and couple of bright blue because I plan on doing a 69 -70 Corvette with bright blue and maybe a Pewter over Red 72 LT1.

[Bad67300]

Got the car unloaded and went over it in a little more detail. Found some good, some bad. The bad first - doesn't appear the transmission is original though it is a 68-70 case. Also, the 4.10 gears were changed out at some point as there's no posi. The housing is original. Now for the good, the original blue dashpad is in great shape, the original console is complete and really pretty nice with only one crack on the bottom half that should be an easy fix, and the floors/rockers are super solid. It was undercoated. The trunk floor is spotty in a couple places and will probably need replaced. Also I believe the heads are original.

According to the prior owner, his son "blew it up" but he had no details. I'm going to spend an evening draining the oil, cutting open the filter, and seeing if it will turn over or fire. Might as well try to get it running before pulling it.

Here are a couple more pictures. There is a faint name on the passenger side door and I'm going to do some digging on it to see what if any race history it had. I'll also be seeing the previous owner tomorrow on another car deal so will try to get some more info.

Thanks everyone for the advice and pointing me in the right direction on restoration approaches. Much appreciated!