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[Charley Lillard]

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[Charley Lillard]

Dan's Dad is 100% sure it was gloss from the factory. Thanks for the input Dan as this kind of info is important. There are not very many orig owner low mile cars out there for us to get first hand info from.

['69Novajoe]

I love it!! And I can relate to "original" too (with pics of the car on the lot brand new!!). Thanks for posting.
Joe

[DarrenX33]

Cool I sprayed mine right then.

Hmm, is it a Norwood car or LA?

[DM69SS]

Here is the last batch. This is the stuff he had in a folder. Pretty cool for the guys that are into the original/survivor stuff.

There are still 2 more dealer shots and a few shots from MN Dragways - He said he'd poke around for em, but this is it for a while. We didn't spend too much time looking as I don't get down there as much as I'd like, so catching up was the priority.

Front dealer shot:



Another rear dealer shot:



The window sticker from the car:



The actual checklist he and the salesman went through:
(Station wagon checklist is on the back side)





The sales brochure he looked at when choosing between a Camaro or a Nova:



And last - the brochure he went to get after receiving the "John Deere" letter from his father and did nothing to ease his fears about the color. He said he picked the color from a picture of a car on the cover of National Dragster. After the letter from his father and this brochure, he was pretty worried it wasn't going to look like what he expected. It is hard to tell from the scan, but the color on this brochure, definitely looks closer to Deere green than the actual color of the car.

[black69]

love this thread, such a cool car. Looks like a M20 was slipped in vs a an M21, and they slipped in the endura bumper (very cool) but did not do the spoiler package (according to the check off list). I have the same gloss on my tail panel (different black than the body though).

[Charley Lillard]

It looks like it had wheel trim rings on the window sticker. I think that would be Copo style hubcaps with trim rings. Never seen those trim rings ordered on a Camaro before...Cool.

[DM69SS]

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love this thread, such a cool car. Looks like a M20 was slipped in vs a an M21, and they slipped in the endura bumper (very cool) but did not do the spoiler package (according to the check off list). I have the same gloss on my tail panel (different black than the body though).

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Yes, there were a couple things not correct with the car, but since his parents picked it up a couple months before he got back, there wasn't really anything he could do. My dad was stationed in Thailand when he ordered the car, so he had to go through the military ordering processes, which he said was pretty rinky-dink. He did order the Endura bumper, but the tranny and spoiler options weren't right. Funny thing is, of all the stuff that wasn't right, he was most upset about the dealer sticker they put on the trunk. He talked to the dealer and explicitly told them no dealer stickers anywhere or he would refuse the car.

It did have trim rings on it. Not sure why he ordered those, as he had a set of Cragar SS's for the car shipped home before he got back to the US.

One of the guys he was stationed with had a brother back home that ordered a copo, which is what my dad originally wanted. The salesman told my dad it was impossible and the guy was just blowing smoke. Since he was told he couldn't order the L72 from Chevy directly, he tried to order a Nickey, but was told they wouldn't hold it that long and he would have to find someone to pick it up in Chicago when it came in - which proved too difficult, so he went with the L78. Since it was the first new car he ever ordered, he really wanted to pick it up himself.

[black69]

I noticed earlier the residue on the trunk lid from the sticker. That had to be a thorn in your dad's side to see that after they took it off.

[1969z280]

Dan:

Thanks for posting! Great pictures and I'm glad that it's still at home! Ed