1973 Camaro Type LT

Trunk Assembly (April, 11, 2009)

Here is the first update of 2009. It has been 4 months since I updated the site. I have been working on the car a little during that time, but the cold weather in NJ keeps me out of the garage. This update covers the finishing of the trunk and related components. Before I could put any of the components that go in the trunk, I need to finish it. I used Duplicolor trunk splatter paint. I then had to clear coat the paint to protect it. The trunk splatter paint is water based and not very durable unless it is clear coated. Once the trunk was painted, I installed the taillights, side marker lights and trunk mount battery. The following photos document this process.
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Here are some shots of the trunk with the outside of the car masked off. The Trunk interior is coated in ZeroRust Red which matches the original trunk primer.


Here is the first coat of the black and grey splatter paint. I noticed that the trunk splatter paint does not cover the red very well. If I had to do this again, I would paint the trunk with black primer first. I needed 6 cans to cover the red paint and it still didn't cover 100%.


Here is the trunk after a couple of coats of splatter paint and clearcoat.

Here is the trunk complete with the masking off. This really finished the trunk off nicely.


The next step was to clean up and install the rear side marker lights.


Here are the tail lights before restoration.

The next step with the tail lights was to prep the inside of the lights and coat them with Eastwood's chrome paint.	Here are the tail lights ready for assembly after I polished the lenses and cleaned up and painted the buckets. I also purchased new gaskets for the installation.

Here are the tail lights assembled with the gaskets sealed in place with weatherstripping adhesive.	Here are the self tapping speed nuts to install the tail lights. These were part of my body hardware kit.

This is the mounting location in the trunk for the right tail light. Notice that the studs are not threaded.	Here is the right tail light installed. I have also cleaned up and installed the factory trunk harness.

Here are the tail lights installed from the outside.

I decided to mount the battery on the right side of the trunk behind the tail light under the quarter panel. My battery box is the Taylor 48100 box. The box dimensions are 13.50l X 9.5w X 10.0h. Unfortunately, the 10 inch height was a little too tall. I plan on running a Optima battery that does not require the 10 inch height. When I bought this box Taylor did not make the smaller box for the Optima battery. My solution was to cut the box shorter and re-flange the bottom of the box. The extra 1/2 inch was all I needed to make it fit. It is a tight fit, but it fits.

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