ILLinois found California built L78 1969 Chevelle

[Postsedan]

Yet another cool find where this L78 Chevelle remained with the previous owner for nearly 27 years.

The car is truly stunning.....it is a fully documented Fremont, CA. built L78....Cortez Silver, M21 Bench, Rosewood wheel....with many original parts. The car recieved one repaint in 1984 circa...comes with it`s original smog system and radio. I took over 100 pictures of the car on Saturday....here are a few.

Look for this car to be featured in the L78 display at the next Chevy Vette Fest. Anyone else owning a California built L78....please contact me.

This is how an original spring 1969 Chevelle should sit













Tags still remain on original springs







Somewhat strange....all whels are YA`s (as noted on the Build Sheet) except for the spare. I have no reason to believe the spare is original. Anyone else seen this?







Just over 70K miles



Shifter ball is not original...said to be out of a late model Trans Am.



Glove box light works



Glove box...tire pressure decal




Notice the depth of the center caps



T3`s





BA stamping



Last one



Oh....the brother stopped by with his new toy....but this is for another thread.






Dan.

[SS427]

Very sweet looking Chevelle. Not good to hear about the previous owner.
Rick

[bashton]

It is absolutely amazing what shows up....and practically in your own neighborhood!

That Silver looks great and the L78 under the hood only makes it that much better.

Looks like the L78 Showcase for the next Vettefest is going to be amazing! Thanks for adding this one to "the list" and Congrats on another incredible find.

BA

[mockingbird812]

Very nice Dan! Congrats on the new acquisition. Hard to beat natural patina. Great <font color="#666666"> color </font> combo.

[TimG]

Great car, what a story. Sorry about the owner.

[Stefano]

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Anyone else owning a California built L78....please contact me.



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I have a California built L78. Can I play too?

BTW cool car! What's under to hood of the pacer?

[Belair62]

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Anyone else owning a California built L78....please contact me.



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I have a California built L78. Can I play too?

BTW cool car! What's under to hood of the pacer?

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Steve did that car get done ?

[Stefano]

No, Just gave it the annual bath this past weekend.

Dan,
"Chevelles only" must be some form of illegal discrimination.

[Woj]

Nice car. I have an original 69 SS (325hp) Baltimore car, 4a build date. It has the same low stance as this one (wi/orignal springs). I noticed a similar stance in the early 69 Chevelle SS advertisements as well.

Also noteworthy is that it seems Fremont cars got the tire pressure decal in the glove box door whereas Framingham and Baltimore got them on the driver's door.

All the wheels on my car have just about the same dates. I noticed that they spare has a tube in it. It was probably used at some point and/or transferred from another car. Unless you are the original owner, you'll never know.

Nice photos.

Phil Woj.

[427TJ]

Leave that Sun tach right where it is!