1969 Chevelle

[EZ Nova]

Well seems the reserve was NOR met???? Seen the other COPO Blue Chevelle did sell for 140,000. Wonder IF this owner will let it go, I think I would!!!!!

[monteman1969]

Hi, I’m the guy who restored Doug’s car. Soon after I bought the car a fellow from Alberta purchased it from me and I built the car for him. I have heard about this car for years out here in B.C. Everyone out here has. It has had about 4 owners all in the B.C. Someone would have to pull the records from ICBC (Insurance Corporation of B.C.) To verify the names and dates of these owners. The car has been out here since the 80’s. When I got it, it did have a previous attempt at a restoration none of the work was good enough for me. Doug’s paper work, a copy of the original bill of sale, a copy of the broadcast sheet, a copy of the Ontario owner history and a copy of the original delivery paperwork was included. Also what was included was all the stories of how the car was in a minor accident and ended up at an auto wrecker. When I bought the car it came with the engine, transmission and rear end. I had them all rebuilt and gone through. Out here in B.C. the insurance agency is run by the government. It takes quite a bit to get an out of province vehicle in to your name. You need a vehicle inspection completed and if there are any deficiencies they all need to be fixed before being able to register the car in your name. You would also need to perform a statutory declaration as to how you bought the car if you didn’t have the last known title from Ontario. etc. So in saying that, the car with the mediocre restoration must have passed the inspection here in B.C. at the time of registration. The accident must have been fixed. When I bought the car I did a Carproof report on it showing the history in Ontario and then B.C. and that there were no liens on the car nor did it indicate that it had been written off in Ontario. This search doesn’t show the various owners just the city and date that it was transferred. To comment on the floors. This picture that I took was just before I took the car to the blasters. I always remove the floor pan plugs with a propane torch and remove the seam sealer that holds them in. I also always cut the quarter panel lips off so that the blasting media can clean all the inside areas. The lips were gone. The floors appear to me to be original GM as well as the trunk. There were some repairs to the floors completed previously and I cleaned them all up. Also to note both of the hidden vins are on the firewall. After having the body blasted there were absolutely no signs that these had been tampered with. On the ebay auction I posted one of the firewall hidden vins. I have no doubt that this is Doug’s old car. I had some great conversations with Doug and the owner is negotiating purchasing the original paper work for the car off of Doug.

Thanks Cameron.

[Charley Lillard]

Monteman's first post since joining in 2006 and a good one.

[Tracker1]

"When I got it, it did have a previous attempt at a restoration none of the work was good enough for me. Doug’s paper work, a copy of the original bill of sale, a copy of the broadcast sheet, a copy of the Ontario owner history and a copy of the original delivery paperwork was included."

Photocopies?

[camaromb]

With the unique characteristics an original Copo Chevelle trim tag has, it would be nice to see the trim tag on this vehicle.

The transmission vin and assembly stamp have evidence of numbers visible underneath. It looks like it was smoothed and re-grained when it was re-stamped. Its getting harder to tell anymore on some of these cars.

[Kurt S]

I sure would like to hear how the block found it's way back to the car, assuming it's still not in the Nova.
More importantly, is how did the body survive the junkyard. That should be researchable given the owner history.
I agree with MB on the trans.
136379B397120 to help with future searches.

Cowl tag
6
ST69 13637 BAL255452 BDY
TR 756 57 57 PNT
06DB1616 B M196587
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[old5.0]

Green-to-blue must have been popular back then. I know of an FG 4 - speed COPO out of Van-T in Topeka that was "cloned" into an LB SS396 in the early 80's.

[monteman1969]

[monteman1969]

Hi here are the pictures of the cowl tag and transmission stamp. You will notice in the transmission stamp that the ghosting is the same number. Probably from when the holder was placed against the transmission. The owner asked me to post these pictures. Also to note that in the ebay ad it just states numbers matching. No one has claimed them to be born with. I had the pleasure to restore this car and I believe these parts to be original. But that's just my opinion.

[Furback]

I am no expert, but I have looked at one pile of Muncie stampings. The VIN stamp has what looks like an obliterated previous stamp under it. And the ghost stamp under the C in the Trans stamp looks more like an old 0 stamping than a C. The texture of that whole pad looks wrong, almost like it is a "inny" instead of an "outy" texture. Now, I could be all wrong, but I have a few M22 trannys , they are an investment for me and I would question this one for sure.