Hi All,
I replaced the door skins on my 69 convertible, and now I'm wondering if anyone knows where I can get some of the thick undercoating type stuff like what's on the inside of the original skins? I'm looking for something to deaden the door skin, so it doesn't sound so hollow. I've thought about using some of the spray-on sound deadening stuff you can get from the Crutchfield catalog, but I'd prefer to use the original type stuff, if I can get it.

Thanks in Advance,
Dave

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Team Chevelle #373
ACES #3512
69 SS Convertible

Hey Dave, sounds like you're on a mission! I'm pretty sure that Painters Supply has that thick gooey stuff called Body Schotz or something to that effect. Same stuff is used on the outside of the rear inners quarter panel wheelhouses to reduce tire road noise.
We still need to get together and maybe put a hurtin on some of those cold thingies.

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69 SS396 69 Malibu Ragtop
70 Monte 72 El Camino
Team Chevelle Gold #33
ACES Member #02913
Chevelle Club of Michigan
Rode shotgun in the ONLY Z16 convertible made.

3M Body Shutz works good for that.

Tom, tell us about the convert. Z16 you rode in. I keep hearing about this thing being alive somewhere.

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Micky Hale Restorations
69 L-89 Chevelle
68 Biscayne 427/425
34 Plymouth Drag Car
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Dave. I have been the same route. The original material was a tar based product. I have removed all the old stuff in order to blast the car. There was no rust where the tar still was on the car. Great stuff. These tar product are forbidden by law nowadays. Valvoline offers a substitute product called "Bodysafe" which is to be used as an underbody coating. It's black, it disolves in petrol, but as far I can judge it is not tar. It is not as thick as tho old stuff too. I have used it, but don't know yet how it will hold. I will take at least 3 years to find out.
Valvoline also offers a product which should do the same, but is paintable. This is a rubber like product. I have been told though this will not really stick to the car eventually, so water can/will creep behind it.
In the meantime I have been thinking about the materials they use to cover roofs. These are still tar based. Perhaps I can melt it. Have not done this yet.

Mickey, Always glad to talk about the elusive Z-16 Convertible! A guy in my neighborhood where my family lived in Detroit had a friend by the name of Doug Richmond who was a student at General Motors Institute in 1964. Doug bought that Z-16 from a GM exec that did put a few miles on the car, but not many as the car still had the window sticker on it with the sticker priced at $4800.00 which was a lot of money at that time! The car was gold in color inside and out and was loaded with options. No positraction and no A/C but power windows, AM-FM, all the usual SS stuff including the gold stripe Goodyear tires and the "mag wheel" wheel covers. I got a few rides in the car before I moved to Florida in January of 1965 and lost contact with Doug. I have no idea where he is these days or the car but do get a fair amount of email from people looking for the one and only droptop Z-16. I wish I knew where it is today! Years ago at a NCOA show a guy told me the car was seen at drag races in the North East part of the country and was demolished in an accident, but that's what someone told him so who knows for sure what the real story is.

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69 SS396 69 Malibu Ragtop
70 Monte 72 El Camino
Team Chevelle Gold #33
ACES Member #02913
Chevelle Club of Michigan
Rode shotgun in the ONLY Z16 convertible made.

Thanks for the responses guys! This is pretty much all the stuff I thought about, so I'm not sure exactly which may I'm going to go. I've also thought about taking the doors up to the local Ziebart and having them squirt a couple real heavy coats of their brand of undercoating inside of them. Who knows? But I'll figure something out. Hey Tom, those cold thingies sound pretty good http://www.chevelles.com/forum/smile.gif, I'll dig your number up and give you a call!

Thanks again all,
Dave

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Team Chevelle #373
ACES #3512
69 SS Convertible

There is a product that mey be what you are after, it's sheets of tar that have an adhesive that you stick on the panel. I have used it and it WILL make your door sound like a refrigerator you can get it at most auto body supply stores or NAPA auto parts may have them also.

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1965 Buick Gran Sport Convertible
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