1970 K20 Z62 Full Restoration

[IronCanine]

OK...so I think the grille situation is sorted. I ordered a polishing kit from Renegade. Polish and paint and this feels right...or as close as we could get it. I am ok with the fact that this grille will require extra attention and maintenance.

The center support is NOS and it is another surprising place that you can find a date code.

I also got our under hood black phosphate pieces back and they are great. I can whole heartedly recommend DIFCO (Durable Industrial Finishing Company) in Tucker, GA. I don't know how I missed them...they're in my back yard. They are a production facility and anything that you send in for zinc plating will be vatted (basically run through large containers as a gross) and has the potential for loss on small pieces. However, for manganese phosphate, they do it by hand. There is a $200 minimum which is what I paid to have my latch, striker plate and pin, and hood hinges and springs done. I don't know how much more I would have had to send to surpass that. But I shipped them out and had them back in under two weeks. And they look great. Now they were sent squeaky clean...which I think is the key if you want to have a solid result.

I got the NOS hood latch from Mel (one of many pieces he's helped me with). The return spring didn't survive the multiple swings at re-finishing. Luckily eBay had a couple of NOS springs for sale this weekend that I have coming.