How Many 69 L89 Chevelles?

[68l30]

Tom,sorry I won't be at a show... Just the yearly ritual of putting the Camaro away for the winter.I keep it parked with a family members collection.

Welcome aboard as well! Charles Auto is a big sponser of our local club the NEOCC.We may have met at the Fall Classic a few weeks ago or at one of the local cruises.


Steve

[Tom Hartman]

We may have met and I don't remember. I am member #106 of the NEOCC, I am a founding member in 1994. I did the Summit Racing show the NEOCC put on this year and last. I was fortunate enough to bug Mark until he took me for a ride around the parking lot in his Motion '68, WOW what a car!

[Bruce]

I have no proof other than a fond memory of riding in a black with red stripe 69 El Camino SS396 4-spd car in the fall of 1971 that had the L89 in it.
It was the nicest car in my high school parking lot, it was the 1st time I had layed my eyes on a big block with aluminum heads.
I tried to locate this car about 15 or so years ago but ran into a dead end, was told it had been totaled.
I still have memory recall about that ride. Today at 49 awesome, then at 16 cool.

[NCGuy68]

I've seen the Orange 69 L89 Chevelle sitting in Floyd's several times. The owner has extensive documentation on it from GM of Canada.

Its quite a interesting car and one of my all time favorite Chevelles. I encourage everyone to see it. You will not be disappointed!

[69L89RAG]

There was a 1969 Convertible L-89 that sold in the Atlantic City Auction this year. Anyone know anything about it?

[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 !!

[442w30]

Was the one in AC red?

[Don_Lightfoot]

I may be wrong, but I think the Atlantic City car was Blue. Here's a body pic I have.