I have zero'ed in on the conclusion that the car was originally a small block car with A/C and when it was "restored" somebody found a "correct 1969 L34 396" and put it in there. The car is extremely nice just not as unicorn'ish as I was beginning to believe once I started chasing the numbers. As I mentioned, I didn't buy the car under the impression that it was a numbers matching car but the more I looked into the numbers the more the excitement was building. I gotta send a huge THANK YOU to the guys who helped me (from this forum group but behind the scenes) decipher the numbers and figure this thing out! The only question remaining is, was it originally an SS small block car but at this point, it doesn't really matter. Now, knowing it's NOT the one and only documented 69 396 Nova WITH A/C in existence, I can move on to doing the things that I wanted to do to the car when I bought it! First thing I did after deciding it's just another 69 big block Nova, was buy some wheels! Because it is such a nicely restored car I'm not going to do anything that can't easily be reversed but slapping some wheels and tires on it definitely makes it MINE.
I did send off for the shipping dox from the NCRS and the car has a production date of November 15, 1968 (which coincides with all the dates on the car) and originally sold out of Ed Mollision Chevrolet in Birmingham, AL. I thought it was pretty neat to find out the car was an Alabama car and after going who knows where, it is BACK in Alabama.
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