[tom406]

Not '69 Camaro specific but a similar anecdote. I recently looked at an original owner '70 Challenger RT/SE 440 car, still in the hands of the original owners. It doesn't have any 440 emblems on the hood, and they've never painted it. Aha! a factory mistake!? Well, as we looked closer, you could see evidence that the hood had been resprayed. Upon asking the owners about what they knew, it turns out it was a late 1970 dealer swap car (they wanted a '70 but too late to order) and it apparently suffered hood damage in transit or while at the first dealer (or maybe stolen? that definitely happened back in the day) and the body shop apparently was apparently too lazy to drill holes and transfer the emblems over. Just an example of something happening between the factory and the original owner.