[talwell]

A few tell tale signs of something not being correct is that the motor was stamped later than the car was built.

Engine: 0212 - Feb 12, 1969
Assembly: 02A - Feb 1-7 1969

Also, I find it very difficult to accept that an experimental car would be produced in the middle of the production year. If the tag was 09/68 or approximately around that time we might be able to accept that GM may have built this as a test mule for the 1969 production year. But to build a test mule in the middle of production year?

What is also very curious is that the motor was built the second week of feb 1969, and yet the car was sold on the start of the 3rd week - feb 21, 1969. To me this all seems very artificial and difficult to accept. It may just be me, but where is the time to have the car transported to the dealer? Being a experimental car wouldn't they have built it for testing and not for retail sale 1 week after being built?