Canadian 1969 Chevelle 300 Deluxe SS, L78, M22

[Postsedan]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ryan1969Chevelle</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The used vehicle package is a nice touch as well!!

I have wondered but never asked, what would NCRS docs say about a Canadian Documented car? Same thing?

Again, fantastic car!!!!!!!!!!!

Ryan </div></div>

NO, NCRS are nothing like having The Canadian Docs......Nothing wrong with the NCRS docs.....just not nearly the amount of info you get with a Canadian Built car.

Dan

[427strato]

Thanks guys. It is a nice car and I've been after it for a long time. The reason I had it re-documented was that I thought it might explain the chambered exhaust and the F41 suspension. I remember Bruce telling me the exhaust was still on the car and sure enough, it is. Its been scabbed into and patched but its still there, although I doubt its very usable. I have read somewhere that these two items may have been standard equipment up until the third week of Nov. 1968 and this car was shipped the first week of November.

The other things I couldn't explain is that it has full carpeting and a plate on the door panel where a remote control mirror came through, which I understand may not have been available on a SS. He wasn't overly handy and I would doubt whether these items were ever changed. I haven't taken it off of the trailer yet so really have not tried to find any build sheets or anything on the car. He was the one that had it painted silver and installed the chrome slotted wheels over 30 years ago. I have one early photo showing it in silver only. He had told me at one time that when it was delivered to the dealership it fell off of the ramps coming off of the truck and it damaged the quarters. I expect this is true as its not a story you would make up. There were three NOS chrome wheel well chrome mouldings in the trunk, one in the original wrapper, however I have no idea why as the ones on the car are perfect. The different colour hood is due to him dropping a load of 2x4s' he had in the attic of the garage onto the hood. The interior is great except for one rip on a seam on the drivers seat plus someone had a Hurst shifter installed. Doug

[Keith Tedford]

Our 300 DEluxe SS396 hardtop came from John Holland Motors in Burlington, Ontario as well.
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This was the original owner of our car that we met at a Waterdown car show. He owned the dark gray Chevelle in the background at the time. He gave up on trying to find his old car and built the new one.
GM of Canada has the documentation on any car built and or sold new in Canada. Our L78 car was Baltimore built.

[427strato]

Hi Keith. I knew one of the mechanics at J. Holland back in the early 70s' as he worked on a 67 Corvette that was raced out of a Brantford, Ont. dealership in the late 60s', early 70s', which is where I met him. I bought a new 69 COPO Chevelle from B&amp;A Chevrolet, located in the Yorkville area of Toronto, in 1969 and this one may be about as close to that one that I'm going to get. Doug.

[Postsedan]

Doug,

I can tell you for certain that unless it was specify on the Canadian docs.....the carpet and the drivers remote mirror was added and changed out by someone, dealer, etc.

I have a Registered Canadian BUILT 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan....showing an RPO drivers side remote mirror on the Canadian Docs.

Have you pulled the carpet.....to see if the Rubber Mat is under it?

Dan

[Postsedan]

Doug,

What color was your 1969 COPO Chevelle?

Dan

[Keith Tedford]

Three of us bought COPO Chevelles through Beare Motors In Port Perry. They also sold a blue L88 Corvette and I understand it went to the U.S. a few years ago. Nurse Chev-Olds sold a red COPO Camaro in `69. In about 1970 the owner
had an accident. He was killed and the car was a total write off.

[Damien]

That's a great Chevelle Doug. A shame about the circumstances though.
What are your plans for this awesome '69 Chevelle?

[427strato]

I haven't done anything to the Chevelle at this point; its still on the trailer as I just don't have time to deal with it. It will be interesting to see if the door panels have the same date on the back of them, not that they couldn't have added the mirror; but really, of all things to add, a remote control mirror; something I certainly couldn't live without. I'll check under the carpet to see whats there.

My COPO was dark green. There were three of them in the compound when I looked at it in the fall of 69. Two green ones and a blue one. I wanted to trade the SS wheels for the rally wheels on the blue one however they wouldn't go for it. I traded in a 67 427-435 hrs for it. I saw the blue one later at the same dealership when the engine had been blown up. The salesman said they had had five of them that year, the other two being yellow and orange; the orange one going to the Barrie area. A friend of mine also purchased a yellow one from a London, Ont dealership the same year and I saw a light blue one in Kitchener, Ont. in 1972 or 73.

I'm just finishing a restoration on one of my other cars which I want to put on the road within the next month so the Chevelle will have to sit until I can look at it. I'm not going to do another restoration right now as I've just done two. I may stick my 70 402-375 hrs. in it for now, paint it and do some minor cleaning and hopefully drive it a little later this summer. Doug.

[Postsedan]

Doug,

Do you know the whereabouts of your Fathom Green COPO Chevelle today?

Dan