Re: Restore original parts or leave them alone?
What we did on the black 69 Z was to use the safest rust remover if the part had any rust then used cosmoline spray after.
The engine compartment had been touched up over the years and I used enamel reducer to take off the "new" paint without hurting the orignal paint.
If a nut or bolt was painted or was corroded and should not have been I took only one out at a time and soaked it in enamel reducer or safest rust remover and then coated it in cosmoline and re-installed it.
The result has been an engine compartment and chassis that is original... IMHO it looks great.
I am really interested in duplicating the appearance on the GTO I am restoring... I do not want a PLASTIC show car, I want one that looks like it just came off of the Assm line, with imperfections like runs, drips, scratches, and etc!
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