Cars Inwards Yards: 1969 Pontiac Firebird Features Famed ’69 Camaro Torso Lines At A Bargain
1969 Camaro trunk lines are xxx per centum cheaper on a 1969 Pontiac Firebird. I’ve done the math too witnessed it inward person. The 1969 Pontiac Firebird gets no respect. The Poncho ’Birds are a larn by when compared to Chevys prized Camaro cousins. Your pocketbook volition give thank y'all you straightaway if y'all score a yard observe similar this dark 350-V8 1969 Firebird only larn ready to choke dorsum tears when or if y'all create upwards one's take away heed to sell. The Pontiacs volition non vantage your restoration efforts past times bringing y'all a large provide on your investment. Chevy is winning the race to the banking concern inward this musculus machine war.
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| This 1969 Pontiac Firebird 350-V8, bloom bed needs weeding. |
Numbers don’t lie
Check the numbers equally First Gen F-bodies whorl across the auction block or compare their values on Collector Car Market, a favorite online resources of mine. In #3 Condition a base of operations V8 Firebird 2-door (350-2 barrel) hardtop is valued at $7,550. H5N1 base of operations V8 Camaro (327-2 barrel) 2-door hardtop is valued at $11,100. The Camaro is worth 32 per centum to a greater extent than than a similar Firebird. Ouch!
This is peculiarly painful because the Camaro coupe was cheaper when novel at $2,726 compared to the Firebird’s $2,821 base of operations price. Also, Chevy produced 243,085 Camaros for the 1969 model year, spell Pontiac produced 87,708 Firebirds.
Baffled? There are fewer 1969 Firebirds too they are worth less than 1969 Camaros.
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| John Z. Delorean too his handbag of tricks moved to the Chevrolet partition inward Feb 1969. Did the '69 Firebird larn a bum rap because John Z. was pushing the Camaro? |
Hard to observe First Gens
Cruising farmlands too dorsum roads for musculus machine magic is all to ofttimes a wild goose chase. Big block musculus cars too whatsoever rusted-out relic resembling a Barrett-Jackson phase star select been squirreled away or sold multiple times. Those transactions inflate the cost each fourth dimension the machine changes owners. My gauge is that 1969 Camaros select changed hands to a greater extent than ofttimes than whatsoever American-made musculus machine inward history. Their values select climbed too then high that no 1 would dare commons 1 outside. Or would they?
I squinted my eyes equally I spotted a dark 1969 Camaro parked inward the weeds. "Ron, banking concern jibe out the ’69 Camaro!" I had no sooner processed the though inward my head, when I knew I was wrong. It can't endure a 1969 Camaro inward the weeds. They don’t exist.
"It's a '69 Firebird, fifty-fifty better!," Ron said.
"What could endure ameliorate than a 1969 Camaro parked inward weeds?," I thought.
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| Rear, side marking lights on the 1969 Firebird were a one-year design. In 1968 the rear, side marking lights were the Pontiac arrowhead. |
Our dark 1969 Firebird observe too the dependent area of our budget bench racing abuse was non for sale. The possessor has plans to "fix her up, someday."
One query bounced to a greater extent than or less within the truck on the agency out of the Firebird owner’s driveway. "If it were a Camaro, would it endure parked inward the yard?"
One query bounced to a greater extent than or less within the truck on the agency out of the Firebird owner’s driveway. "If it were a Camaro, would it endure parked inward the yard?"
– Jody Potter, junkyardlife.com
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| Pontiac sold 20,000 less redesiged 1969 Firebirds compared to 1968 'Birds. That underwhelming total occurred during an extended 17-month production year. |
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| I beloved the lines on the Camaro... I hateful Firebird. These tail lights were likewise used on the Pontiac Astre. |
1969 Pontiac Firebird production numbers
Coupe: 75,362
Convertible: 11,649
Coupe: 75,362
Convertible: 11,649
Trans Am Coupe: 689
Trans Am Convertible: 8
Trans Am Convertible: 8
TOTAL PRODUCTION: 87,708
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