I've always been more of a "saver" than a restorer so this thread is great. The best cars are untouched originals but there are so few and less and less all the time so making an effort to do truly "correct" resto is a great idea. Hell of a challenge though to know where to draw the line!!
An example of where to draw the line is my rear speakers (factory 8 track convertible so it has two speakers mounted in the top well)... I removed them in their cardboard housings to redo the speakers themselves and noticed a few "quality" issues from the assembly line...
as you can see the speaker was mounted into a cardboard housing that was screwed into the divider panel between the trunk area and the back seat. Then the top well liner would be dropped in... the area in front of the speakers was cut out... and the speaker mesh-gard would be screwed in securing the liner in place.
However on this car they only used two of four screws and they didn't bother cutting out the well liner, which was rubberized!! so I can just imagine how weak those speakers sounded.
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1969 Fbird (base OHC, 350, 400HO & Sprint Cvt’s - 400HO & TA ht’s)
1969 Custom S 2dr ht
1969 LeMans (2dr & 4dr ht & Cvt)
1969 LeMans Safari wagon
1969 GTO (2 Cvt, 2 ht & Judge ht)
1969 Cat (3 Cvt’s & a 2dr ht)
1969 Ventura wagon 2 seat
1969 Exec 4dr post
1969 2 Bonnie Cvt's & 2 wagons
1969 Bonnie Brougham (4dr ht & Cvt)
1969 Grand Prix 2 SJ’s
1969 2+2 2dr ht (Canadian)
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