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

[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.

[Verne_Frantz]

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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.

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I believe that is where most of these "delete" plates come from. I've seen a lot of original paperwork where the radio is priced out on the dealer order form and invoice, but the radio is not on the window sticker. (my own '62 is an example). Apparently, the dealers could make more profit by installing it themselves rather than just getting the mark-up on the option cost.
Verne