Our 69 Yenko Chevelle restoration

[luzl78]

Originally Posted by WILMASBOYL78

Rick...are those 15" trim rings..?? I see the GM boxes, just curious what the part number is on those?? Glad to hear it is going so well.

Tom

It’s probably a 6696

[SS427]

Yes, 9796696

[SS427]

Annie and I got started on the assembly last night. Fairly straightforward since I was about 95% done with all the parts restoration. Annie worked in the interior while I worked on the tail end of the car. She installed all the headliner trim, dome light harness and heater box. I still have to add the firewall upper insulation. Thanks to Mark P for the templates needed to cut the insulation.

Annie went on to finish installing the intermediate harness and antenna. Using black tape just like the factory did she replicated the installation of the antenna wire to the firewall.

[SS427]

Just some small details I took care of while she was working on her stuff. Note the spring steel retainer used by the factory to hold the brake/clutch assembly to the dash carrier during installation. I commonly see these and this one was restored and replaced.

Firewall insulation pad was put in place before mounting the heater box and pedal assembly. This is an expensive pad but more closely resembles the factory version rather than using the flat piece of crap that most people sell.

This small red oxide clip helps hold the base of the windshield chrome. These are missing most of the time but ours were still in place so they were restored and replaced.

The monitors come with slotted screws but ours was held on with oval headed phillips screws so that is what went back on. Right or wrong that is what was on there. The harness hook and original and very hard to find bolt was restored and replaced mounted next to the monitor.

I replaced the yellow "215" on the cowl top exactly as I found it during the clean up. I am not sure what this number relates to but have found numbers like this on the 70 cowls as well (though on the other side) and those number also had nothing to do with any numbers on the build sheet or build sequence. Most likely an inspector number.

[SS427]

The detail was put into the trunk as well. The paint overspray as well as the spatter overspray was replicated as near exact as possible. As an very observant sYc member pointed out to me, the area that was taped off behind the side marker lights should be the charcoal grey not the red oxide primer making it even more clear that Chevrolet painted the trunk area a charcoal grey before adding the spatter. This will be corrected in the coming days.

After installing the tail trim I sprayed sealer over the pins just as was done originally.

[luv2sixty9]

Originally Posted by luzl78

It’s probably a 6696

Those are the later ones. Rick's car will need the ones with the four outer clips.

[SS427]

Good luck with that. These will have to do in the meantime as the 4 clip ones are a toughy. The difference is in the clips and valve stem opening shape.

[Woj]

Very nice attention to detail Rick. You and Annie are really doing a nice job.

Phil

[Jonesy]

Wow, I just think its amazing how you replicate everything the factory did.
Thats impressive.

[SS427]

Last night was the fuel tank and other minor details such as the cowl and grounds. Once again I talked Annie into staying late to help out. Just like the license plate light wire grommet, the factory used tape to cover the hole from below. I am not sure why other than maybe to retain the trunk spatter but seriously in those days who would care. Regardless, it was there and I replaced it with the same type of tape and then pushed the grommet through it.

I reworked the ground wire as the terminal is not correct on the replacement pigtails so I replaced it with a correct end. The original bolts were restored and used in the same locations. Same goes for all the gas tank mounting hardware. It is all the original pieces.


The fuel line clamps were an olive drab color based on what I could see on the inside of the clamp where it was protected by the hose. I could barely make out the stampings on the fuel hose so I replaced it with what I have seen on Baltimore cars and that is SWAN GAS.