To those guys and gals that either are restoring their beloved first gen Firebird to close to factory what books / catalogs did you use?

http://1967firebird.atwebpages.com/
http://www3.telus.net/public/68bird/
http://thefirstgensite.com/html/librarydex.htm

Here's my 'restoration books' I use

Thanks to Vikki, John and Kelly

I didn't have much when I bought my Bird back in 1991, it was all in boxes, I used both the 1967 service manual and Firebird supplement and the Chilton repair and Fisher Body manual. Now Wow there is so much out there, I use Vicki's site alot and here the old posts help too.

Here's another one: http://tpocr.com/

It really depends on what you want out of your restoration. There are no specific Firebird resto books out there that I'm aware off, and the Camaro and a couple of others I looked at are IMO very vague and not very precise in the work described.

The best and NUMBER ONE advise I can give you is:
Do not finish-paint all your body panels individually off the car and then assemble and align.
Paint the backsides and even a coat of primer on front, but finish everything in one shot after you're happy with all your gaps and alignments. If it's not painted you can pry, hammer, shim, drop a wrench, rub you belt buggle, set a beer bottle on it etc. and it won't hurt a [censored] thing .

Everything else was a combination of service manual, this site, and other sites when finishing mine. Hope this helps.

Since you have a '69, I would get a copy of the '68 Firebird Factory Assembly Manual from E-bay.

Not the most legible documents out there, but better than nothing. Shows you how they put the car together at the factory.

I have a 69 Assembly Manual. Is the 68 better than the 69 manual?

I believe it's printed a bit better. Unfortuately, '67 & '68's are much more compatable with each other than '69's so it's probably won't help you out that much more.