1969 L72 Biscayne
 

Was wondering how many '69 L72 Biscaynes are out there? I keep on searching for one but am going on year #2 and still haven't spotted one in person. I've seen a couple of pics on the net, but that's about it.

Anyone have one, know or one, or have some good pics?

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Production figures aren't known except for total L72 cars, which I think numbers in the 500s.

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If this site is correct, it's 546 L72s for full-size cars.
http://www.1969chevy.com/biscayne.htm

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Click the below links for a couple '69 L72 B-Body cars...

https://www.yenko.net/photos/showgallery.php/cat/594

https://www.yenko.net/features/2000/June2000.htm

Member '69L78Post' from New Brunswick Canada has one he's restoring too..
If you want to contact him, Barry's a good lad to talk to and also has a '69 Chevelle L78 Post car hence the user name..
Here's his profile..
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showprof...part=2&vc=1

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Mine is the red (Original Burgundy Car) one in the link above for members rides. It is currently in the body shop receiving a full restoration. It was a former race car in the Buffalo, New York area. Good Luck with your search.

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Looking forward to seeing your car once the restoration is finished, Zach. Are you restoring it back to as-raced, or from the factory?

I'll keep looking. Heck, I can't even find a decent 2-door Biscayne, L72 or not. haha.

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It will be restored back to factory.

Everyone remembers the car, but doesn't have any pictures of it so I have no idea what it looked like back in the day. I've tracked the history back to the guy that had it in the late seventies to early eighties. He said he bought it out of the Super Swap paper in Buffalo as an original car with a blown motor. He then had Jim Oddy build a engine for it and would bring it through the traps at 7 grand. It was Red with Bisquick in gold down the side. Raced the majority of the time at Lancaster.

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Hi Tom,

Mine is a Burnished Brown L72/M22 from out of Michigan. It was purchased from one of the members of this site. Original engine is gone, but the rest of the car is there.
It's patiently waiting for my attention.( Once my 300 deluxe is finished!)

Through magazines and online, I count 8 L72 Biscaynes so far.

Zach, how's your car coming along? If it turns out half as nice as your 68, it'll be awesome! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

Barry

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Pete, I forgot to thank you for your post. Sorry about that. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

Wow, that's pretty incredible, Barry. 8. God knows how many of these cars got crushed--people thinking they were just grandma's car.

Love the burnished brown. I'd would have ordered a brown or green one if I was around back then.

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It will be restored back to factory.

Everyone remembers the car, but doesn't have any pictures of it so I have no idea what it looked like back in the day. I've tracked the history back to the guy that had it in the late seventies to early eighties. He said he bought it out of the Super Swap paper in Buffalo as an original car with a blown motor. He then had Jim Oddy build a engine for it and would bring it through the traps at 7 grand. It was Red with Bisquick in gold down the side. Raced the majority of the time at Lancaster.

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Zach, cool story...I spent some time on the strip at Lancaster in the mid/late '70's. Oddy did some head work and sleeve work on a couple of motors for me, good stuff.

Do you know what dealer sold the car? I know of at least a couple of special order L72's were sold at Glen Campbell Chevrolet in Williamsville.

FWIW, the track is still in operation...good luck with the resto https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

Mike

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It's pretty neat that the L-72 was an RPO in 1968 and 1969 while it was only available as a special order COPO in Chevelles and Camaros in '69. One of the best street engines ever available. I wonder how heavy one of those stripped-down '69 L-72 Biscaynes really weighed? It was probably not much heavier than a Rat-motored Chevelle loaded up with options.

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There was a cherry, super low-mile Frost Green L72 'bisc in Milwaukee many years ago. Either sold or no longer does shows.

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I'll say amen to Mark's comments on the L72 engine. In about 200K miles ours got one valve spring, oil, filter, belts, a fan clutch, water pump and hoses. It wasn't babied but wasn't totally abused either. In the Chevelle parts book is a chart listing the weights of the various options. Tally up your options and then go to another chart to cross reference which springs to use. You can add a couple of hundred pounds by loading a Chevelle with all the goodies. It would be getting the weight up there with a stripped big car. I don't know how accurate the scales were but our Chevelle weighed 3700 with half a tank of gas.

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Mike,

My car was sold out of Laks Chevrolet. I would love to find plate frames or a trunk name plate for the car from Laks.



Zach

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It was Red with Bisquick in gold down the side.

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There are some pretty well known shots of a Biscayne with Bisquick on the side floating around on the net or am I thinking of another car? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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It was Red with Bisquick in gold down the side.

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There are some pretty well known shots of a Biscayne with Bisquick on the side floating around on the net or am I thinking of another car? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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As we've discussed here in the past there was at least a half dozen or more cars running the Bisquick moniker back in the day..

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Yeah, woe be the man trying to find anecdotal evidence on cars named "BisQuick" or "NovaCaine", the veritable "John Smith"s of the Chevy drag car world......

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I think mine used to be called Hurri-Cayne. It was originally owned by Dick Ross, a stock eliminator racer out of Michigan. Can anybody back this story up, maybe remembers the car?

Barry

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I remember looking through an old NIA mag like from 2-3 years ago...and wasn't there pics of 3-4 of them together at one of the shows??

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I don't suppose you still have the mag do you? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

Barry

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Nope, I just seen them when I was at Jody Andersons house one night paging through all the old ones that Dennis wrote.

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According to the wife of the original owner of Barry's L72 M22 Biscayne (one of the 6-10 M22 Biscaynes produced in 69) the car ran 11.70's . It was a Saturday night special that would gladly show you it's tailights if you had a minimum of $200. It saw track duty at places like Lapeer and across the border at St. Thomas. Someone must remember being suckered by a 4000 pound Burnished Brown two door Biscayne sedan with dog dish hubcaps?

In the words of James Taylor in Two Lane Blacktop, "Make it two yards MOF and you got yourself an auto mobile race"

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There is, or was, a blue 69 L72/M22 Biscayne owned by a guy here in Kansas. Sold new from Van-T in Topeka.

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The blue one was written up in a magazine too. I picked up a copy of the magazine off ebay a few years back. I'm trying to make mine a spitting image of that one. I love the way it looks.

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back about 1980, a buddy of mine owned the identical twin to the kansas lemans blue biscayne featured in that super chevy issue. wish i could track it down.... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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Dennis Naasz, former owner of the National Impala Assoc. has a Glacier blue L72 Biscayne which was completed a few years ago. I have pictures of the done car as well a few pictures I took the day he got the car out of Rapid City with a 70 front clip and rear bumper!
Steve

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Will he mind if you post them?

Barry

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I don't think he would mind at all. Here they are, sorry for the poor quality of the old ones..I was a 12 year old with a 35mm disposable camera lol:
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...1101Medium.jpg
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...1K01Medium.jpg
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...1H01Medium.jpg
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...MG01Medium.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...5988Medium.jpg
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...5990Medium.jpg
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...5994Medium.jpg
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...5996Medium.jpg
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...5992Medium.jpg
Steve

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That is one sweet Post Sedan!

Dan.

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Thanks for posting those pics Steve! I see this car (like mine) also has no power steering or power brakes.

Barry

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A friend of mine bought a black w/black interior 69 L72 427 4 speed Biscayne new. He traded it for a chevelle a few years after he bought it and has wanted it back ever since. Next time I see him I'll have to ask him if he has any pictures of it.

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That 1 of none look w/ the '70 clip & bumper is Thttps://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gifhttps://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif Chttps://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/drool.gifhttps://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/drool.gifL and one like it also a '70 Chevelle Post have both been on my 'hope to do' list for over 30 years now..
Man time sure does fly...and reality bites!.

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~ Pete

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Here are some of a 69 L72 convert that I have been considering buying over the years. Really rough body but about 98% all original driveline parts. I only found the radiator, fan/clutch and water pump to have been replaced and there has been some minor restoration on the car such as part of the engine compartment. A couple of items are also missing. Everything else on the car is original. Car was loaded up pretty good but unfortunately with a column shift automatic. Neat car none the less.

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...n_IMG_3712.jpg

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...n_IMG_3713.jpg

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...n_IMG_3722.jpg

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Here is a 67 SS427 that I used to own. When I bought this car I was backing out of the drive way with the car on the trailer when the owner came running back out of the house. Said he thought I should have this. Cool picture. The car is now fully restored and is a frequent visitor at the Fred Gibb Memorial Show. Note the neat plate and photo date.

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...cks67SS427.jpg

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Here is an interesting shot of a unique trunk emblem on a 69 SS427 Sport Coupe taken in Phoenix around 1981 or so. Bruce, maybe you know of the car if it still exists. It looked exactly like the Corvette emblem with the cross flags but I could not see where they were ever removed. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif


http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...s/MVC-191S.jpg

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Rick...I've never seen that car?

Cool pics for sure!

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Love that picture Rick!

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According to the wife of the original owner of Barry's L72 M22 Biscayne (one of the 6-10 M22 Biscaynes produced in 69) ....

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Considering any kind of engine breakdown doesn't exist for Chevys by model, how can it exist for a tranny? All I know is 77 M22s were built for all big cars . . . am I missing something?

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According to the wife of the original owner of Barry's L72 M22 Biscayne (one of the 6-10 M22 Biscaynes produced in 69) ....

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Considering any kind of engine breakdown doesn't exist for Chevys by model, how can it exist for a tranny? All I know is 77 M22s were built for all big cars . . . am I missing something?

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Estimated number of L72/M22 Biscaynes based on the total of 77.

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I don't know where all these numbers come from either. The same thing happens with body production numbers for Z24 Impalas. Many various figures have been floating around for years, without any real proof.