Hey Mr. T, How are things in sunny California? Hope you are doing well. I need to call you and catch up on the pasts couple of months. Like many survivors, there will be things that are discovered and evaluated along the way that will obviously not be evident until they are found. Every survivor has it’s own past and story to accompany it. Take the Z28 Camaro in another thread. You have those who think it looks like a time capsule and the best survivor they have seen. Oddly enough they don’t seem to question the characteristics that make it look more like a car having 15 or 20,000 miles. We don’t have an answer for the wire along the brace but (on the rear driver’s side area) the trunk floor has signs of metallic blue paint underneath the bubbled, baked black paint. Dave Stuart surmised that the factory started to incorrectly paint with that color and came back with the black once they discovered that the wrong hue was being applied. There are no repairs so it does not make any sense as to why there would be a touch up on that cross brace. We have checked all body panels and the paint is consistent throughout the car. These pictures depict exactly the way we found things. (Some photos do distort the color and real appearance of the parts on the car.) We have not cleaned or started to disassemble anything. Will there be other areas of discovery that we cannot see or detect by simply looking it over? Maybe, possibly…who knows? One thing is for sure, I don’t think we could have found a better candidate for the project we have embarked on! Besides Troy, at least now there will be more involved that just a wash and a wax. We might actually have to replace a wire! Oh well…..there goes the project.
