David that looks great. As always awesome work. 
Rear deck lid complete
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Le Mans Master
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Rear deck lid complete
I got tired of looking at all the overspray and painted over linkages so I took the deck lid off and redid the underside. Removed all the linkages and wire wheeled everything, sanded, reglassed resanded and shot GM semi gloss and reassembled eerything. Word to the wise always take digital pics before removing every last nut and bolt.
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Last edited by Cali,68,L-79; Jan 25, 2005 at 09:19 AM.
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Nice and clean David. As always you do great work. The underside of mine was painted flat black and it turned out pretty nice also. 
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Thanks all. Next weekend starts the engine bay which is a whole lot bigger of a problem as I'm not pulling the engine just the hood and everything is coming off the firewall. I'll glass/ sand and repaint the firewall and then "rehab" polish everything before it goes back on especially the hood. Only difference between stock and mine is the engine bay color will go all around the drip/ drain rail, stock from GM had GM semi gloss black on the drip rail behind the firewall and body color on the left and right sides of the fender's drip rail.
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Looks very nice! Was your car blue at some point? I believe the pull handles and the cables were painted in place on the deck lid at the factory and so are body color as a result. Linkages and latches were added after painting so are natural color. Not that it matters if you aren't the FCR type. Looks good, regardless.
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Originally Posted by LemansBlue68
Looks very nice! Was your car blue at some point? I believe the pull handles and the cables were painted in place on the deck lid at the factory and so are body color as a result. Linkages and latches were added after painting so are natural color. Not that it matters if you aren't the FCR type. Looks good, regardless.
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Originally Posted by Cali,68,L-79
It was international blue, then cherry red, now it's black.
Nothing like black to show off those chrome bumpers and trim.