How Many 69 L89 Chevelles?

[JoeC]

Here is my guess on numbers.
I would think the L89 production would roughly follow the overall Chevelle production of aprox 20% convertibles and 5% El Caminos.
So, 400 L89 Chevelles would be aprox 80 L89 convertibles and 20 L89 El Caminos. This estimate sounds better to me then just pulling numbers out of thin air.

[olredalert]

--------Understand that from my viewpoint I didnt feel that I was pulling things out of "thin air". This was info from a very wealthy, very well connected in the automotive industry icon of sorts (Joe Hrudka, AKA Mr.Gasket). It was my thought at the time that he made a couple of calls somewhere within the GM umbrella and was told this fact. I may have been wrong to take his word. On the other hand, one could make the case that the number of L89 El Caminos would not follow the normal path of other 69 Chevelles as far as percentages are concerned. El Caminos were workhorses 95% of the time. They were normally bought for far different reasons than other Chevelle SSs. The 396s were desireable from a power standpiont for towing purposes, but the L89 option and L78 option wouldnt have appealed to the guy who needed an El Camino normally. It isnt too long a leap to imagine that the numbers of L89s in El Camino SSs would be far less than in other SS models percentage wise..........Bill S

[Belair62]

That makes sense Bill.....it makes sense someone like J Hrudka would order a truck with an L 89 !!

[68l30]

I don't think Hrudka was the first owner,third I believe.......


Steve

[Belair62]

Oops...first owner must have been a hi-po freak too...

[Schonyenko2]

Another reason/s that people bought new hipo caminos was 1 if you were a farm boy wanting that kind of power you could buy it and write it off as a farm truck. Also it was an easy way to get around the killer insurance rates as it still was classified as a truck even with an LS6. Traction alway seemed to be a problem with them though. Would an elky have a different frt pad stamp than a chevelle for the L89 option? S.

[Mr70]

No...Same engine suffix & plants as Chevelles had.