[Satyr1966]

Having done a full frame off restoration of my show car '66 Gto, I can say that unless your aim is to trailer the car to GTOAA National Meets hoping for Concourse Gold & then store it in a sealed 0% humidity environment, there are things that you might want to do slightly differently than the factory did. On these cars many parts were bare metal & began rusting long B4 the cars were even purchased. Paper tags on springs & such looked bad after a few miles on wet roads. In other words if you restore a car to as delivered, it will not look great in the first place & it will rapidly go downhill from there especially if you drive it. We sometimes get accused of over-restoration but I have made some decisions to make the car look better than "factory" & to keep it looking good longer. The trick is to try to make the car look like it came off the production line on the best day they ever had & sneak in some ways of keeping parts from rusting while still looking close to how they should. Welcome to the forum & good luck with your restoration. Jerry.