[JasonD]

Originally Posted by Sport71

Beautiful work, Jason! Did you do the alternator yourself or did you send it out? If so, who did you use?

Thanks......I rebuilt the alternator myself. They are pretty easy to rebuild.

[Wakepowell]

Another questions on your restoration, did you have the shift linkage gold CAD plated and was that the original finish? Thanks

[JasonD]

Originally Posted by Wakepowell

Another questions on your restoration, did you have the shift linkage gold CAD plated and was that the original finish? Thanks

Yes all the gold cad linkages are the original finish. The rod that goes up to the steering column is silver cad plated, as is the clutch pedal rod.

[OVERULD]

Jason:
Why is the top of the body not done the same way as the quarters, hood, deck and door panels? Are you doing a different process on the roof?

BJ

[JasonD]

Originally Posted by OVERULD

Jason:
Why is the top of the body not done the same way as the quarters, hood, deck and door panels? Are you doing a different process on the roof?

BJ

The roof was done the same way........I just had to do it seperately since it was so high up in the air on the rotisserie.

[TEG]

Jason:

Did you find any carpet tags on the car when you pulled the carpet up? My 1970 had tags that read "McGee Carpet" and were dated. I bought carpet tags from In-Line and they are nothing like what was on my car. If you found them, could you photograph them, please?

I have partial photos of mine and no longer have the 1970. FYI--the tags were stapled into the carpet under each bucket seat.

Thanks,

T.

[JasonD]

Originally Posted by TEG

Jason:

Did you find any carpet tags on the car when you pulled the carpet up? My 1970 had tags that read "McGee Carpet" and were dated. I bought carpet tags from In-Line and they are nothing like what was on my car. If you found them, could you photograph them, please?

I have partial photos of mine and no longer have the 1970. FYI--the tags were stapled into the carpet under each bucket seat.

Thanks,

T.

When we took the carpet out it was so smelly from the mice that were living inside that we immediately threw it in the dumpster. I remember seeing carpet tags on it too......but I didn't think to photograph them.

[Held for Ransom]

Originally Posted by TEG

Did you find any carpet tags on the car when you pulled the carpet up? My 1970 had tags that read "McGee Carpet" and were dated. I bought carpet tags from In-Line and they are nothing like what was on my car. If you found them, could you photograph them, please?

I have partial photos of mine and no longer have the 1970. FYI--the tags were stapled into the carpet under each bucket seat.

Thanks,

T.

Those are really hard to see if they've ever got wet...
Also pictured is the tag on the rear seat.

[Greg Reid]

Here's a good pic of an original '68 carpet tag. From an HPP article.

[JasonD]

The Judge is ready to paint now.......so last night we spent a few hours getting all the front sheetmetal pre-fitted to the car. The radiator support and both front fenders are new aftermarket parts, so I expected to have to do a little tweaking to get them perfect. You don't wanna be tweaking on freshly painted parts.......so we do all that now.

Both fenders needed a little bending in the lower rear area of the "dog leg", as they didn't have the exact curve of the doors. A couple pulls of a slide hammer brought them out perfectly. I also had to do some metal work around the right side marker light to make it fit properly.

I was having a heck of a time getting the front end perfectly square because it seemed to be pulled about 1/4 of an inch toward the passenger side in the front. After working on the problem for an hour, I measured the new radiator support and found that it was slightly out of square. I don't know if it was made that way or if it happened in shipping......but it was screwing everything up.

A quick push of the top of the radiator support over toward the driver's side about 1/8 of an inch with a Porta-Power jack and everything fell into place perfectly. The hood fits great and clicks into place easily. All the gaps look good. These fenders actually work very well after you do a little fitting with them.

Time to tear it all down again and start spraying some Polar White paint!

[TEG]

Originally Posted by Greg Reid

Here's a good pic of an original '68 carpet tag. From an HPP article.

Greg:

That is what I was looking for. The repopped ones I have seen are very different. Thanks for the photo. I will try to make that for myself. Do you think the part number is the same for a 1969 application?

[JasonD]

Originally Posted by TEG

Greg:

That is what I was looking for. The repopped ones I have seen are very different. Thanks for the photo. I will try to make that for myself. Do you think the part number is the same for a 1969 application?

Speaking of interior tags.....

Does anybody have any pictures of the tags stuck on the bottom of the gauges? I got a new one with my detail decals but it was different from my original one.....so I had to re-use my original one.

[Greg Reid]

Originally Posted by TEG

Greg:

That is what I was looking for. The repopped ones I have seen are very different. Thanks for the photo. I will try to make that for myself. Do you think the part number is the same for a 1969 application?

I have no idea. I'm really not a numbers guy....I just remember that particular article about a completely original survivor '68 and that there were lots of pics for reference. Here's the article in fact.... Survivor, Pontiac Style

[6 Grrrs]

Originally Posted by TEG

Jason:

Did you find any carpet tags on the car when you pulled the carpet up? My 1970 had tags that read "McGee Carpet" and were dated. I bought carpet tags from In-Line and they are nothing like what was on my car. If you found them, could you photograph them, please?

I have partial photos of mine and no longer have the 1970. FYI--the tags were stapled into the carpet under each bucket seat.

Thanks,

T.

Originally Posted by JasonD

When we took the carpet out it was so smelly from the mice that were living inside that we immediately threw it in the dumpster. I remember seeing carpet tags on it too......but I didn't think to photograph them.

Originally Posted by Held for Ransom

Those are really hard to see if they've ever got wet...
Also pictured is the tag on the rear seat.

Originally Posted by Greg Reid

Here's a good pic of an original '68 carpet tag. From an HPP article.

Funny story:

Today I was out with my dad in his mostly original 1969 Catalina convertible. When we returned to my house, I got out of the car to find the carpet tag was laying on the floor mat. I remembered seeing something posted on the PY forums just recently, so I took a photo of the tag with my cell phone. I searched and searched recent threads that I was looking at (except this one) and didn't find what I was looking for. Then I used the 'search' function and low & behold the posts I was thinking about were in this thread. It was right at the top of the results for searching "carpet tag".

Nice to know the search function actually works sometimes

Anyways here is a photo of the original carpet tag that was stapled to the carpet. It was built in Linden NJ (E in VIN) and built the 4th week of September (094 on body tag). Of course this is a full size, but I thought maybe there was interest in this photo.

[Mark Simiele]

Well that whole Jason story explains a lot. I had sent him some radiator hoses to get striped back in March and I have yet to get them back. I have called him numerous times and he kept telling me soon, soon just very busy, usual shop run around. I had a gut feeling he was either going under or something else was up. Guess I was right and I can forget about those hoses. Strange thing is, his cell phone was working all this time, he usually picked up, was quite friendly when he did and, his web site is still functioning with details of show winning TA's that were recently restored.

Sure feel sorry for those folks who had thier cars in his shop. Been down that road before and its a horrible experience for anyone to go through.

[CDN2PLS2]

Did it originally have that much overspray? I've seen other Oshawa GTOz that way.It seems the Painter was paid by the Gallon.

[JasonD]

Originally Posted by CDN2PLS2

Did it originally have that much overspray? I've seen other Oshawa GTOz that way.It seems the Painter was paid by the Gallon.

Yeah it actually had alot of overspray all the way over to the tranny tunnel........I think I actually put on less than the factory!

[JasonD]

Here we have the firewall completely restored. There were 4 areas where there was yellow grease pencil used. One right in the center of the firewall that reads "L74" for the Ram Air III engine option. The rest of the markings were to the very far driver's side. The number "10", which would denote the paint code, the number "268", which was the black bench seat interior code, and a great big "O" at the bottom, which I have no idea what that means. These were all copied exactly how they looked before......including the overspray pattern on the firewall.


Also, note the pattern of the sealant sprayed around the heater box area and around where the throttle cable goes through the firewall and where the speedo cable goes through. These patterns are all replicated just like the factory did it. There is also some fo this sealant sprayed around where the emergency brake pedal attaches to the firewall, but the bolts to the pedal need to be installed first......so I'll add that later.

I used rubberized undercoating to replicate the factory sprayed sealant:

[JasonD]

Here we are introducing the nice new body to the nice new frame.

[The Boss]

Has there been a 6 figure RA III Judge yet?

If not, we could be looking at it!

Nice work Jason and thanks for sharing it with us.

Chris