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This was my first restoration in 1983. It was an original Z/28 Hugger Orange with White stripes.

This was a very fast car, a monster to drive. 

The following pictures were taken 20 years ago (wow) with a polaroid, so excuse the poor quality.

Click on each picture for a blow-up view

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These are of the finished product. When it was all said and done, I had about $6000.00 invested in the car. I bought it for $2500.00, drove it home, and the rest was for retoration.

Wish I could do that again!!!! I sold the car for $7500.00 in 1983. OUCH!

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A portion of the right quarter panel was solid bondo YUCK! So instead of replacing the entire quarter, we cut out the bad area and welded in a new section. It proved to be very difficult to get back to a perfect fit, but we did it.

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All the original paint was stripped off to bare metal

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Primed and ready to paint! 

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Finished! We used straight lacquer paint. It dries in 15 min. and buffs out to a mirror finish. NICE!

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