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If you have a standard 1969 camaro you should not have a lot of problem finding the parts and supplies that you need to restore the car, but if you have a special 1969 camaro you’ll probably run in to a few problems locating some of the parts.

Allow me to differentiate between a special 1969 camaro, and a standard 1969 camaro, a standard 1969 camaro would be a Z/28, SS, RS, RS/SS, RS-Z/28, a special camaro would be a Yenko Camaro, a Baldwin Motion Camaro, or a ZL1 Camaro.

These are camaros that a very limited number of them was built, making it hard to find some of the parts, so if your restoring one of these you’ll need to add a lot of patience to the restoration plan of your car because if will take a while to locate some of the parts.

For this article we’ll assume that you have already bought your car, and now it’s time to start the restoration process on the car, first of all get the car in to the garage, and plan on it being there for a while, this is not an over night process.

Planning a restoration on your 1969 camaro is no different from planning one on any other car, the first thing you need to do is take an inventory of the car so you can list the tings that need to be done to restore the car.

I have a method for doing an inventory of a car for restoration purposes, first get out your notebook, and divide one of the pages in to three columns, name one of them replace parts, name one repair parts, and name one repair work.

What your going to do with this notebook is a walk around inventory of the car, you’ll bee looking for parts that need to be replaced, parts that you can repair and reuse, and getting a general feel for the repair work that needs to be done on the car it’s self.

The reason we do this is to get an idea of some of the things that we need to do to restore the car, I realize that you can’t get a complete list of the things that you need until you tear in to the car, but this will give you a good idea of where to start.

You can take your list of replace parts and start to run down suppliers for them, and the cost of them, make sure that you inspect inspect the entire car when you do the walk around, I usually work from the front to the rear of the car when I do this.

Then after I get everything that I can see, I lift the car off of the ground and inspect all of the systems under the car, like suspension, brakes, steering, rear end, and sheet metal, once I have the inventory completed I can get on to the tear down.

This inventory can help you in a lot of ways, the first and most obvious is the fact that it will help you get a feel for the pricing of the parts that you’ll need, if your good at estimating how long it will take you to repair and replace things, it will give you a good idea of how many hours it will take.

Take your time on this parts of the restoration, the more through this is the better it will be, you’ll get a really good idea of the parts you need, and the cost of them, you’ll get a good idea of the time it will take to do the restoration of the car.
If you know these things up front, you won’t get a lot of surprises as you do the work and you’ll enjoy every hour that you spend working on your car, keep this in mind as you do your inventory, in most cases if the car is in good condition, it takes professional shop about 600-800 hours to restore a car.

That of course changes when you add more work, but it will give you an idea of the time that these cars can take to restore, it takes a long time to complete one of these projects, the the reward is well worth the time that you’ll spend restoring the car.

Resource: 1969 Camaro Restoration

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