I'm restoring a 1970 SS Chevelle 396 to concours condition and I would like to know if anyone knows where I can find out where all the factory markings were on the car? Like the yellow marker marks on certain areas, white marker marks etc. etc. Maybe there's a website that tells? Thanks Steve

This should be in the restoration forum. The guys there should be able to help. Maybe the moderator can move it.

I gotta share a story I heard somewhere... I think on Chevytalk.com

This guy has a car concourse-restored, they re-create every chalk-mark they found when dissassembling it. After it's finished he takes it to a show, not far from the plant where the car was built. One guy he starts talking about the car to actually worked on the line at the plant, so the owner shows him this marking that he didn't know what it meant, and nobody had ever documented before.

The guy who worked there starts laughing hysterically, and replies "That was Bill telling Steve down the line where he was going for lunch" :D

Don't know if it was true or not, but it's worth telling anyway smile.gif

Originally posted by Derek69SS:
I gotta share a story I heard somewhere... I think on Chevytalk.com

This guy has a car concourse-restored, they re-create every chalk-mark they found when dissassembling it. After it's finished he takes it to a show, not far from the plant where the car was built. One guy he starts talking about the car to actually worked on the line at the plant, so the owner shows him this marking that he didn't know what it meant, and nobody had ever documented before.

The guy who worked there starts laughing hysterically, and replies "That was Bill telling Steve down the line where he was going for lunch" :D

Don't know if it was true or not, but it's worth telling anyway smile.gif That's great, I kinda hope it is true. Think of all the marks put back on cars that were just notes being passed along, email.

Stuff like that can happen. I was talking with a friend who has a 73 VW Thing with less than 10000 original miles. He has the tires that the car was delivered to the original owner.

He was talking with someone at a show and they were giving him a hard time say that his tires were not correct because of the brand. A gentleman comes up to them and listens to the conversation. It turns out that he was a mechanic at a VW dealership in 73/74. He told them that when the cars were shipped from the factory in Mexico, the cheapest and easiest way for them to secure the cars onto the rail cars was to drive a spike through the tires into the deck of the rail car. So every Thing had tires put on at the point of delivery.

Just the crazy kind of stuff that went on back in the day.

Steve...you have mail.

ALbert

These cars defiantly had marks all over the place. I sand blasted many front and rear suspension parts on both my 68 and 71 Chevelles and could see them clearly. Nothing has changed either. I bought a new truck a few years ago and it had marks and stickers all over the chassis and body as well. There must have been 20 different marks from the steering parts to the trailer hitch.

If anyone has this information can you please send it to me also. I need this for the 70 convt Iam building, the rolling chassis is done and would like to put the marks on before I set the body back on, Also what color should the steering box be, I read the chevelle restoration guide book and it says black but I see a lot of them cast gray or silver..Thanks Don

Don, I did mine in cast...never seen a black one though..and you have mail.

ALbert

Let's see if you get more info in the Resto Forum.

R.J.