How does this look?
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From: The Buckle of the Bible Belt. Joplin Mo
Looks fairly decent to me. Someone has been there before you and used POR to protect the metal. Originally green primer was applied to that area. Since there is surface rust beginning to come thru, you may have a leak. What year C-3 are we looking at.?
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1969 427 390hp
any ideas where leak from? Convertible too
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From: The Buckle of the Bible Belt. Joplin Mo
Here is a link from another discussion that may help.
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Perhaps green but not necessarily. Over on the NCRS forum there was a short-lived survey as black and green were both used – not enough data was generated, so it's not very definitive. Whether or not it was as early as '69 is still open to discovery. The only way to tell on this specific car is to remove the passenger dash and examine the upper bird cage structure's coating color.
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For a 50 year old, plus car, that looks really good indeed. you will be hard pressed to find better.
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My "thoughts on this" are:
Why are you asking?
1) If you're concerned about the integrity of the bolt and asking for our opinion, IMO it looks as good as most C2's-C3's I've seen.
2) If you're wanting our opinion on how difficult it would be to remove (like for doing a "body off" resto) then it probably won't be easy. It might be a little difficult to grab what's left of the bolt head.
Why are you asking?
1) If you're concerned about the integrity of the bolt and asking for our opinion, IMO it looks as good as most C2's-C3's I've seen.
2) If you're wanting our opinion on how difficult it would be to remove (like for doing a "body off" resto) then it probably won't be easy. It might be a little difficult to grab what's left of the bolt head.
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well looking at this car as a potential purchase and curious how it compares. Hate to buy a car then find myself having to do major work. Good money after bad sort of thing.
Why are you asking?
1) If you're concerned about the integrity of the bolt and asking for our opinion, IMO it looks as good as most C2's-C3's I've seen.
2) If you're wanting our opinion on how difficult it would be to remove (like for doing a "body off" resto) then it probably won't be easy. It might be a little difficult to grab what's left of the bolt head.[/QUOTE]
Why are you asking?
1) If you're concerned about the integrity of the bolt and asking for our opinion, IMO it looks as good as most C2's-C3's I've seen.
2) If you're wanting our opinion on how difficult it would be to remove (like for doing a "body off" resto) then it probably won't be easy. It might be a little difficult to grab what's left of the bolt head.[/QUOTE]
