OneStopRestoration's Special Orange 69 Chevelle 300 Deluxe Coupe

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----I have to ask if you market any of your great decals? I may be out of the loop. And,,,Would you consider when the time was appropriate to do some other stuff? I really like your attention to correctness!....Bill S

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Mostly finished with the column. Had to put in a new lower bearing at the bearing cup is in the plating box so finaly assembly will have to wait. I also need to get in an nos igntion switch i order and rekey it.

I struggle with these, as i had the top section on and off about 5 times before it finally went into place.

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After my dad moved we lost our chevy dealership person back in Dubuque Ia that cut and and rekeyed lock cylinders for us.

This meant dad and I got to research how its done. Not terribly complicated, but you need something like a Curtis key cutter, the right cams and carriages, the key blanks and most importantly the key code book to take all your old lock cylinder codes and have keys made for them. On this car I had all the original glove box and door cylinders. I had to rekey the trunk to the original glove box and rekey the ignition switch to the doors.

All pretty straightforward as long as you can read the 4 digit GM code on the side of the cylinders. This was alot of fun to read up on and do.

Pic1 Curtis Cutter
Pic2 Key succesfully cut(trunk and glove box for a 69)
Pic3 doors tumblers restored, polished, and keys cut
Pic4 Glove box tumbler, showing the code
pic 5, 6, 7 Rekeying the trunk lock, includes pulling the entire assembly apart and pieces of the tumberl to get to the individual tumblers. Redo the 6 tumblers to match the key, springs, spring retainer, and reinstall with new key face pieces, and done