mossy Posted February 17, 2008 Posted February 17, 2008 Did any of the early Z's come with a galvanized body? Quote
Moderators Zedman240® Posted February 17, 2008 Moderators Posted February 17, 2008 I dont think they did! Or else we would have hundreds of them still driving today around instead of rusting away. I remember Rob at Z Factory galvanized doors, hatch and smaller parts but I dont think there is anyone around with a big enough tank to galvanize the unibody (shell). I might be wrong tho... edit: When I said galvanized doors, hatch etc I meant just the frames without the skin! Sorry! Quote
C.A.R. Posted February 17, 2008 Posted February 17, 2008 Not to mention it's warp the shell/panels something horrific... Quote
mossy Posted February 19, 2008 Author Posted February 19, 2008 When my mum got her 70 z engineered they said the body was galvanized. The other thing i heard was some of the early z's that were galvanized for the US were sent over here, don't know if its true or not? Quote
Moderators Zedman240® Posted February 19, 2008 Moderators Posted February 19, 2008 Nothing stops the previous owner of doing anything to their body! It may have had some sort of restoration work done some time ago..Maybe they worked in that field? Quote
gilltech Posted February 26, 2008 Posted February 26, 2008 When I stripped away underseal & grey primer on the chassis rails of my car the bare metal surface appeared to have a sort of silver-coloured finish to it ie. it certainly wasn't pure bare steel as such; it did look rather like a galvanised (zinc) finish; I'm guessing that the lower body chassis box section bits when made were dip treated in some way prior to being welded into the rest of the body to give them at least some sort of basic protection as paint can't penetrate into the rails during the body primer & painting process. Perhaps that's what the engineers for mossy's mum's car were looking at when they inspected it. But I would expect that the 'galvanising' would have been just a simple steel passivating process, definitely not a 'hot dipped' type galvanising process as you'd use for external metalwork on a building, say, that's designed to be left exposed to the weather. So the resultant coating, zinc or whatever, wouldn't last long in a wet climate as it would just erode away, & quickly if it didn't get a chance to dry out regularly. Quote
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