Just had it up in the air and rinsed off the bottom of the car. I noticed my front crossmember has ZERO paint on it. I had no idea they weren't painted from the factory. You'd think they would rust immediately...????

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The engine mounts weren't painted, either????

 

Well, see the engineers knew that the gaskets used in 1982 would leak enough oil to prevent anything from the engine down from ever rusting.

 

Lmao!!!

 

Prob need to dry that all off and grab some detail pictures.

 

You are funny but there may be truth to that Drew. Lol!

 

Brilliant!

 

Theres actually a lot of parts that arent painted..

 

I want to find some LPS rust inhibitor to spray on the non painted parts, too...and then take better pics.

 

Spraying WD40 on that every year or so, might work too.

 

FYI, looks like someone painted or neuralized the rear end, since they came bare metal. Also, it looks like someone attempted some detailing in front with a silver rattle can.

 

The car has had some kind of quaker state undercoating in places....

The silver you're seeing is just a light reflection. There's nothing on it

 

Look at the sway bar, radiator and air dam.

 

I'm pretty sure that's a light reflection Charlie. You got your readers on?

 

Yes Jeremy!

Look at the back of the air dam.

 

You talking about this?



Otherwise to the left definitely looks like light reflection as stated.

 

I have pics from other angles, and the reflection is in a completely different pattern. Plus I was under there looking around for an hour. Believe me, it's a trick of light. There's no overspray anywhere

 

That and the outside edges to the left and right of your arrows.

 

See? Now it looks like its covered, lol. Just the light

 

Im kinda thinking there's silver paint on at least the cross member, there's no way it wouldn't have rusted by now.

 

No, it's bare steel, you can see it is, you can see the HAZ from the welding, and the welds are bare too.

 

funny I'm a welder and totally overlooked that lol

 

I'm a painter. Believe me, there's nothing touched up or doctored in any way....other than whatever got that quaker state undercoating on it when it was new. I was SHOCKED at the condition of the bare metal parts. They look like brand new. Every nut and bolt under the car looks new. It spent it's life in a climate controlled garage, and I bought it from its 71 year old previous owner. He must have never, EVER driven it in rain or crappy roads. Now I have to figure out how I can preserve it during my ownership. I don't want that stuff to go to hell under my doing lol. And I don't have a climate controlled environment to store it in. It currently sits in a storage unit.. It has a small decal in the back window that looks like a quaker state logo....but it says something about undercoating. Anyone ever heard of it??

 

It is called Quaker State Q Metal-Gard

I just researched it. I don't think they've made it since the later 80's

 

 

Is this an 82? If so, i wonder if the factory carried over the black paint fogging on the back side of the rearend from the 2nd gen days?

 

Yep, 1982 Z28 that just turned 21,000 miles

 

The Preservation/History/Originality angel on my shoulder says to leave as much as possible untouched. The Practical Devil on my other shoulder is screaming about eliminating that pellet style catalytic converter. I see that thing hanging there, and part of me starts twitching.

 

Ha! Might as well listen to what the Preservation/History/Originality Angel has to say........cause nothing's getting messed with hehe

 

Heres that decal i was talking about. Not sure if it was done at the dealer when it was new or what. I assume so, but i dont know for sure

 

Wow! That glass is clean! Be sure to wax the hatch trim while it still has paint.

 

Ha! Me, too! I think my '82 got about a second faster (ok, less slow) when I ditched that thing!