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Long weekend! After considerable research, help from Grady, Phil and Mike as well as a few others I was able to determine what actual colors our stripes were originally. Going back over several photos of the original and comparing them to others that sent me photos I think I got it right. Off to the paint store to find the correct color paints, purchase the correct width brushes and then making a jig I was able to replace the old incorrect stripes I had recently put on with the correct colored stripes. Since doing this I deleted my old posts so there would be no confusion. I also looked over the photos very closely and came up with what I felt was correct for the green check mark and yellow "M" or "3" that I found on our shaft.
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Rick Nelson Musclecar Restoration and Design, Inc www.musclecarrestorationanddesign.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62r-6vgk2_8 specializing in (only real) LS6 Chevelle restorations Last edited by SS427; 01-13-2019 at 06:37 PM. |
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OMG , I am copying your jig. Did Annie turn the drive shaft
Mike |
#173
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She spun the tire which in turn spun the shaft.
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That's simply art right there! Spot on accurate. I'm going to add the orange stripe to my shaft....KC/L78/M21.
I looked up the part number ad added that. I had no visual evidence of it ever being there but since it was an ink stencil, I doubt it lasted very long. I used a blue ink marker to lightly add the "blueing" of the welds, then cleared. Last edited by Steve Shauger; 01-03-2019 at 04:55 PM. |
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Next came the interior heater box. What appeared to be a very rough box actually blasted up quite nicely with a minimal amount of bodywork. Next we plated the brackets or brought them back to their natural finish depending on the bracket, painted the housing, applied new foam to the vent door, painted and reassembled it. The 982 was added only because I almost always see a number grease penciled there and it always matches the one that is hand written on the top left corner of the buildsheet. This is the same number we found on the fuel tank. We hope to retain the original 69B dated heater core as well.
Hopefully people look at these photos and understand why quotes to restore these can be expensive as they are very time consuming (to do them right).
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Rick Nelson Musclecar Restoration and Design, Inc www.musclecarrestorationanddesign.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62r-6vgk2_8 specializing in (only real) LS6 Chevelle restorations Last edited by SS427; 01-13-2019 at 07:32 PM. |
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Next was the outer heater box. Fairly straight forward as all that was required was blasting, minor body work, cleaning, prime and paint. The bird cage was glass media blasted. I have found that more often then not these heater core covers were dipped in lacquer. Since this is too large to dip I have to spray them and use a fairly high gloss same as the factory. The heater motor (original dated one) was stripped and painted semi gloss black using new dull zinc bolts to attach it. I have found the sealer to usually be grey in color even though it looks black from staining so we now always replace these with grey sealer.
The heater control was in pretty bad shape and required a full restoration (we do that on every car anyway) so this took some time but well worth the efforts.
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Rick Nelson Musclecar Restoration and Design, Inc www.musclecarrestorationanddesign.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62r-6vgk2_8 specializing in (only real) LS6 Chevelle restorations Last edited by SS427; 01-13-2019 at 07:44 PM. |
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The last part of the puzzle was the heater control. This can often be tough especially if the clear cover plate is damaged as the replacement ones suck! I was able to clean and then very carefully polish ours and brought it back to original. The rest of the unit was media blasted, the arms replated and cables cleaned. The black backing boards are never in good shape and have always shrunk so I replace mine with some similar material I found at Micheals, cut using the original as a template and replace. The chrome slider knobs sometimes clean up or I replace them with my dwindling supply of originals.
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Rick Nelson Musclecar Restoration and Design, Inc www.musclecarrestorationanddesign.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62r-6vgk2_8 specializing in (only real) LS6 Chevelle restorations Last edited by SS427; 01-13-2019 at 07:48 PM. |
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Rock on Rick. You are doing a great job on this car. An inspiration to all of us.
Phil W. |
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You and you're team are doing a fantastic job, love the pictures to document the hard work!
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1968 1/2 Cougar 428 R Code, Cobra Jet, 4 SPD, Red Interior in restoration at MASCAR to be unveiled by Kevin Marti at the MCACN 2020 1970 Top Secret Very Special Muscle Car in restoration by MASCAR to be unveiled at MCACN 2020 |
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Drive shaft
Hey Rick, did they teach paint striping in your Restoration school, or did you just wing it? Also about what rpm was that? LOL
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