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I just did a bunch of work on the earliest known 1970 Chevelle. A pilot car with the VIN of 100042, body number 138 and manufactured the third week of May 1969.. To my knowledge it is the only known pre production pilot Chevelle that still exists and is chalk full of one off parts including gauges, wiring harness, metal rear door arm rests, dash, tail light lenses, etc, etc. The car even though having a VIN was not intended to be sold to the public but did. Many of the parts are dated post production and you can see many places where GM changed out parts with others to do a test fit such as the dash. The subject Camaro may have taken the same road and was used throughout the 1970 year as a test bed and maybe later in the year the 6 cyl was swapped out for the 454.