the car is a 73,000 original mile car mile. a little history. this car had it rough for the first 10 years of it's life. from what i was told, the motor was rebuilt 3 times between '70 and '79. the guy we bought it from got the car in '80. he had all the body and paint done and never put it on the road. the drive train was never installed. it sat from '80 till we bought it in '99, in a climate controlled garage. we bought the car with around 53,000 miles on it. that i can verify. we were told that "it was a perfectly straight body with show quality lacquer paint". well it was perfectly straight alright, with tons of bondo in it, but it looked fantastic. just goes to show you that you never really know what your buying without pictures or it's a stripped out project. you do have a point about removing the glass but i am confident that there's no problems in the channels. we've never had any issues with the car leaking inside. with it being a low mileage car that hasn't seen outside weather on a regular basis since 1980, i'm gonna skip removing the glass. as for the subframe mounts, they were brand new when we bought the car and it rides like a dream. i checked them out and they still look new.

this is the car i should be restoring right now. but it's just sitting under a tarp. i need to get the 'Z back on the road ASAP.

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Gotcha. With those circumstances, I see your point.

Mine was a 54K mile car when I bought it back in 1988. Never restored at all, and me being young and dumb, did all kinds of stupid crap to it. Now I am regretting some of those things.

 

Just a comment on cars with very little outside time. I bought my '71 in 1973. No idea about how it was garaged the first two years, but it did come from San Bernadino, Ca., so a dry climate. During the years I owned it the car was almost always garaged, plus Oregon doesn't salt the roads, so no rust. When I did the restoration I saw no reason to pull the glass, as it was such a solid car. After everything was done, the car coincidentally got a crack in the windshield just a couple months after paint. Took it to the local glass shop, and they removed the windshield to replace it. I was watching as they cleaned the trough for new urethane caulk, and saw a 3/8" rust hole in the bottom corner of the passenger side, under the glass! Boy was I surprised, since the car had been so well cared for!
We ended up having to stop, and fortunately the shop was only a mile from home, so I drove it on the back streets home without a windshield. I covered and protected everything really well, and ground out the hole. It was only through the top layer where there are multiple layers at that point. I cut a thin circle of sheetmetal and welded it in place. Ground it all smooth, and painted it with a brush with black paint. Took it back to the glass shop the next day, and they finished the windshield.

 

yea, it's IS in the back of my mind that there could be some rust there. and after what i found with the rest of the body.............um, i should remove the glass. but i'm gonna take a chance on this one. her '68, well that's another story. i'm glad i removed the glass. with the back window, i found fiberglass filler all in the window track. top bottom and sides. she bought the car in '77 and had the body and paint done then. so it was only 9 years old and there was all the rust already.

 

Yep, our winters trashed the old un-galvanized cars pretty fast. I bought my first 69 in 1976 (7 years old). It had already been repainted who knows how many years prior to that, the rear quarters had been rusted out and bondoed, and the front drivers floor was rusting through.

 

we started working on the rocker panel today. cut the old one out. check out the picture of the bondo that seeped through the cracks in the metal. had to get the persuader out to get the new one to fit (LOL). who ever did the body back in the day never pulled out the body where the door hinges bolt to. so we smacked the inside of the frame with a B.F. sledge and the rocket slid right into place. we have it fit in with sheet metal screws. next i had to put the front end back on so we can line up the rocker, fender and door. got the rad support on the car and painted. painted a few other parts too. everything to do with the engine compartment.

 

hopefully someone can answer this,

i bought a bushing kit for the radiator support. when i went to put it on, it only contained the the vertical bushings and bolts. there were no bushings for the horizontal bolts. can you get these bushings? am i missing something?

 

i noticed that i didn't get any response to my question. i called classic industries and asked them about it and they had no clue what i was talking about. so here's some pics. is anyone's car like this?

 

That's how mine is. I should check the bushing kit I just got it. It's suppose to have all of them. Which kit did you order?

 

K3029 from classic industries


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