Preservation of a 68 Camaro

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Photos 647 - 649  - Cups and cover after soaking and polishing with Mequiar's M105

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Photos 650 - 653 - Mast jacket after cleaning and polishing

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Photos 654 - 656 - Reassembled

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Photos 657 - 659 - Reassembled cont.

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Photos 660 - 662 - Back in the car.

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Photos 663 - 664 - Back in the car cont.

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Photos 665 - 666 - Back in the car cont.

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Not much to update this week.  I've taken it easy as I order the carpet and get the qtr glass and tracks reinstalled and adjusted.  I did pull the pass side door panel back off to address some adjustments to get the window back in its factory location.  As well as readjusting the door panel so it fits a little cleaner.  Also a couple videos of the door closing with the window up and window down.  Also a shout out to Joe (x66 714) for suggesting SMS Auto Fabrics for a headliner replacement. They have the exact material as what the car originally had.


Photo 667 - Comparison between SMS sample and original headliner.  SMS on the left and original on the right before cleaning original.




Videos below

Glass up

https://youtu.be/LcSomCWX22U


Glass down

https://youtu.be/paKQ18l0JpA

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Photo 668 - After cleaning

Photo 669 - Some older repo material I had in parts.  Not even close.

Photo 670 - Door panel hopefully on for the last time for a while.

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Worked on the passenger quarter glass cleaning, installation & adjusting.  Pretty much fell in.

Photos 671 - 673 - Door and qtr glass installed and rolled up.  I've decided to keep the roof rail seals and door seals installed as the fit is too good to mess with at this point.  Restoration time it will receive all new rubber.

Photo 674 - Interior qtr area.

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Photo 675 - Driver door glass date code - CZ-10

Photo 676 - Passenger door glass date code - VZ-10

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Photo 677 - Driver qtr glass date code - CZ-10

Photo 678 - Pass qtr glass date code - CZ-10

Photo 679 - Back glass date code - VZ-10

[BillGarrett]

Really nice work on the steering column.  I didn't even know they had bearings in them. Is there any maintenance schedule for that? 

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I am sure there is but I do not know it.  To give context here.  Car has roughly 87K miles, manual steering and the lower bearing was done.  Upper bearing still tight just needed new grease.


No real updates from the weekend. Went to put the qtr glass in on the drivers side and while cleaning noticed the center lower roller was MIA. Got that on order along with the carpet. Still waiting on sample from Legendary on the headliner. So since I wasn't able to work on the car I knocked out some yard work and enjoyed a little bonfire Saturday night and cleaned the dailys.


Photos 680 - 682 - Driver glass roller missing. Using a punch and ball peen hammer I knocked the retainer loose after little it penetrating spray soaked on it.

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Photo 683 - Glass after roller removal.

And a couple shots of the dailys. Believe it or not the wife drives the truck since she works in town and I drive 2hrs a day back and forth to Nashville.