Rarity of a 69 427 L36 in a standard Impala

[black69]

I was able to see the car last night and it was actually cooler than I thought in person.

I was surprised it has ralley wheels! After I saw that, I said oh crap, I like this car now. It did not have the vin on the front pad, it did decode as a 390HP, and I said maybe the VIN is in the same place as a camaro, and low and behold it was! the owner was super happy about that. Yes it has painted valve covers as said above it should have. It also has a 12 bolt that he said is supposedly a heavy duty version, but I am not sure how he knows of that.

Its an air car, likely nothing odd about that, nor is the auto trans. It has the wood tone center of a black steering wheel I thought looked cool. power windows, power top. Original nice black top on the car still. that would likely crack into a thousand pieces if it was tried to retract

Car was ordered by a dealer as a demo and was the owners personal car. I saw some things that were kinda strange to me, a vacuum trunk close feature (I could see that on a caddy but an Impala?), and these 2 big folgers looking coffee cans that provided the likely vacuum storage under the hood for that.

What was really puzzling was this thing that sat up on top of the cowl that had a transparent cover. it was wired into the original wiring in the car so it looked factory. It was either some type of light or rain sensor. I have a picture if someone would like to post it I could text it to them in a pm. VERY Very weird item GM put on that car.