How rare is a 69 Camaro Rosewood radio delete ???

[camarojoe]

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I thought all 69 Camaros came standard with an AM radio umless it was 'deleted' from the order form.....but, maybe I'm wrong on this one...anyone???

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An AM radio was never "standard". Any radio was optional/extra cost equipment. Most got it, but unless specifically ordered, you got the block off/delete plate, as well as a taped-in cardboard blackout cover that went under the dash where the speaker opening was, as well as a plastic plug in the door jamb where the antenna would normally pass through.

Because these cars were already set up for a radio, including a hole in the plastic dash housing with 2 separate circular openings for the volume and tune knobs (the cluster even has VOL and TUNE molded into it, which gets covered by the block off/delete plate) as well as a speaker grille in the metal dash, and hole for the antenna, IMO, calling it a "delete" plate is ok, even though it was indeed optional equipment to actually have the radio installed.

[JIM]

Acording to the numbers that I have found only 25857 cars out of the total production of 243085 did not receive a radio. 16% percent of the production had deluxe interior. I was just curious how many of the rosewood versions had been seen still in cars or for sale. Most of the camaro people I had spoken to had never seen one just pictures. I know from working back in the Chevy dealerships in the seventies even our price leader cars that were ordered without a radio received a dealer installed radio before delivery and the plates went back to parts or were thrown away. My 70 SS convertible was ordered without a radio and still retains its original grained blockoff and I have only seen 1 other like it in the Blue LS-6 convertible that Chris White just finished. I have a whole collection of block off plates from 55 to 72 that I am thinking of letting go even 70-72 Monte Carlo wood grained ones that are never seen.


Jim

[olredalert]

-----Can I have 'em???????........Bill S

[Thomas]

I have been looking for one since I got my my car in '96, but so far no luck.
I have even stepped up with some serious coin for the ones that have shown up on E-Bay, but was always outbid.

[Tarrytown SS427s]

Is this most likely the way all Chevy radio block off plates with woodgrain are constructed? I am wondering because I once saw a 68 Caprice one but the woodgrain was a metal cutout and was glued onto a regular plate.

[ddmrk]

here is the window sticker to my car showing no radio ordered but ordered with deluxe interior

[iluv69s]

I knew a guy that went into a chevy dealer and found(bought) literally hundreds of radio-block off plates that had been removed from cars and just stored for many years. Apparently this dealer ordered all his cars w/o radios and installed radios themselves after the cars were delivered.

[iluv69s]

I thought all 69 Camaros came standard with an AM radio umless it was 'deleted' from the order form.....but, maybe I'm wrong on this one...anyone???


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An AM radio was never "standard". Any radio was optional/extra cost equipment. Most got it, but unless specifically ordered, you got the block off/delete plate, as well as a taped-in cardboard blackout cover that went under the dash where the speaker opening was, as well as a plastic plug in the door jamb where the antenna would normally pass through.

Because these cars were already set up for a radio, including a hole in the plastic dash housing with 2 separate circular openings for the volume and tune knobs (the cluster even has VOL and TUNE molded into it, which gets covered by the block off/delete plate) as well as a speaker grille in the metal dash, and hole for the antenna, IMO, calling it a "delete" plate is ok, even though it was indeed optional equipment to actually have the radio installed.

I stand corrected...Thanks Joe

[JIM]

Thanks for all the input I guess I'm going to list the Mint one I have in the Classified section and over at camaro's.net

Jim

[396L35]

Clean out your mail box JIM